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Will Beneq list to Moscow’s stock exchange? - Pekka Koponen's column in Kauppalehti
The miserable state of Finnish growth company funding continues. Even though there has been slight improvement in early stage funding, growth funding still needs to be retrieved from abroad. Stock exchange listings are missing. Could the Helsinki Stock Exchange just be shut down?
Finland’s first fuel cell backup power unit aimed for civilian use installed
T Control Oy has installed a fuel cell backup power unit at the TeliaSonera base station in the Vuosaari harbour area. There is no time lag in the use of the power unit...
Spinverse Drives Nano Commercialisation at EuroNanoForum 2013 in Dublin
After the successful EuroNanoForum 2011 in Budapest, Spinverse continues the conference series from 18.-20. June 2013 in the Convention Center Dublin.
Spinverse Expert Dr. Pirjo Pasanen - Graphene for Future electronics - the second most read article in Physica Scripta
The article discusses some aspects of how graphene could be used in mainstream electronic devices. The main focus is on signal processing applications in high-volume,...
FIMECC’s DEMAPP program result highlight: EXCELLENT THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF ALUMINIUM CASTINGS
Electronic components are becoming more powerful and generate excess heat which must be conducted away through the cast aluminium casing. This challenge has been...
Industry commits to public-private innovation as the route to sustained economic growth
Brussels - Aarhus, 21st June 2012 - Representatives of industries employing over 19 million Europeans have today underlined the critical importance of industrial innovation as a route to European economic recovery, and stated their willingness to contribute and engage with governments and the research community to ensure that this is achieved.
'Growth companies for bioeconomy' - Pekka Koponen's column in Kauppalehti
Finland has started well with cleantech, and now the big companies are directing their R&D efforts from paper manufacturing towards bioeconomy. This new business sector would need growth companies to develop it further. Unlike the ICT sector that has received plenty of entrepreneurs and funding during the years past, the bioeconomy sector is dominated by global corporations and thus experience is needed to understand the name of the game. Also funding needs are different when bigger investments are needed already for the beginning. Public efforts should be continued and the services commercialized. In addition, new capital funding and venture capitalists are needed.
The second Partner Day on the Finnish-Russian Innovation Alliance on Nanotechnology held on 14 June 2012
The second Finnish-Russian Innovation Alliance on Nanotechnology Partner Day was held within the frameworks of the 3rd EU-Russia Innovation Forum & 21st EBN Annual Congress in Lappeenranta, Finland on 14.06.2012
The event’s aim was to discuss challenges related to IPR management within the frameworks of cross-border nanotechnology commercialization and cover crucial themes that should be taken into account when technology is looking for investors. The seminar was arranged by Spinverse and there were over 50 participants including Innovation Alliance Partner Organizations, from both academia and business in Europe and Russia.
Material technology provides competitiveness for the Finnish industry - Markku Heino's column in Kauppalehti
Advanced materials and manufacturing methods are expected to provide critical enablers to overcome the great challenges our society is facing related to renewable...