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Resource scarcity is the new trend. We have e.g. too little clean water, energy, and rare raw materials. At the same time many resource side-flows from production are being thrown away or seen as waste. The mountains of garbage at the landfills are growing as we speak. Could your waste be my gold? Can this even be seen as a new underused business opportunity? According to the CTOSurvey2014, the respondents believe so.

The VALUE4NANO project started in September 2013 and aims at developing an implementation roadmap of 4 value chains and their target products. The roadmap will include business modelling and planning for a set of pilot lines and it will involve strategic industry and European stakeholders from research and innovation. The selected areas are:

Inefficient solid waste disposal is a huge global problem that has substantial deteriorating effect on our quality of life. The nasty consequences include emissions, hazardous effect on human health, environment pollution, health problems and land depletion.

Finnish innovation consultancy Spinverse strengthens its service portfolio by acquiring Open Innovation Management Oy. By acquisition Spinverse begins operating the Innovation Mill-accelerator, which commercializes large corporations’ unused ideas and innovations. The accelerator started as cooperation between Nokia, Tekes and Technopolis and during the four years of operation it has created 70 new companies and 650 new jobs.

Column in Kauppalehti by Pekka Koponen 23.9.2013

Join the construction boom in China?

There is a feeling of unease about the coming winter among the Finnish construction industry. Real estate market outlook is murky and the start of new projects is being delayed. Exports to Russia are booming, but should one venture even further out to the East? More than a third of the global construction activity takes place in China. With the current pace China is constructing the equivalent of the entire building stock of Germany in less than two years.

Spinverse signed a collaboration agreement with Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Green Building Industry Cluster Demonstration Zone in Wujin district of Changzhou city in Jiangsu province, China on September 10th 2013 in Beijing.

Rules of Innovation Will Change in Moscow in October

The Edge, real name David Howell Evans, known as the U2 guitarist, was one of the highlights at EuroNanoForum 2013. Instead of great guitar solos, he encouraged the global research and industry community to continue living dreams and reaching for the future: to continue the safe commercialisation of nanotechnology for improving people’s lives. His video greeting was in line with his activities in supporting public philanthropy and more specifically the fight against the cancer disease in the world.

Startup entrepreneurship has became lately a super sexy trend in Finland. Some 400 new companies have been established by former Nokia employees, accelerated by for instance Innovation Mill – program (Kauppalehti Optio 11.4.). However, our boom is starting to be overshadowed by our eastern neighbor.

Spinverse participated at the Skolkovo Village Start-Up event May 26-28^th as an official Conference Sponsor