Inno­va­tions

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Peo­ple and com­pa­nies in Oulu are used to work and inno­vate togeth­er: we have an unbeat­able rep­re­sen­ta­tion of stake­hold­ers in edu­ca­tion, research, busi­ness, and the pub­lic sec­tor. The Oulu Inno­va­tion Alliance, estab­lished in 2009, also sup­ports this col­lab­o­ra­tion and co-cre­ation.

Cut­ting edge of dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion

There is one thing in Oulu that we know par­tic­u­lar­ly well: prod­uct devel­op­ment. You can come to Oulu with just an idea and go home with a fin­ished prod­uct. We can pro­vide all the know-how need­ed to pro­duc­tise, finance, test, and com­mer­cialise a prod­uct or ser­vice tar­get­ed for inter­na­tion­al mar­kets.

Mobile tech­nolo­gies devel­oped in Oulu are being used by almost 3 bil­lion peo­ple around the world dai­ly. Com­bin­ing excel­lence in dif­fer­ent fields with wire­less exper­tise results in smart ICT solu­tions with which to pro­duce high­ly devel­oped, per­son­alised, and con­nectable ser­vices for var­i­ous indus­tries, such as health care.

The OuluHealth ecosys­tem oper­ates in the inter­na­tion­al front­line of dig­i­tal health care by pro­mot­ing health and well-being ser­vices by means of infor­ma­tion engi­neer­ing. As an exem­plary result, the world’s smartest hos­pi­tal will be com­plet­ed in Oulu in 2030. Oulu is also the home of print­ed elec­tron­ics which cre­ates ground­break­ing visions for the auto­mo­tive indus­try.

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Smart City Oulu — test plat­form for smart solu­tions

In recent years, the tech­nol­o­gy ecosys­tem in Oulu has become a hub of dozens of glob­al prod­uct devel­op­ment units. In Oulu, end users and prod­uct devel­op­ers meet in a real-life envi­ron­ment, enabling the cre­ation of prac­ti­cal solu­tions.

Ideas, teams, and com­pa­nies inter­act in inno­va­tion envi­ron­ments where new solu­tions and busi­ness mod­els are devel­oped and test­ed. The oper­a­tions are based on co-cre­ation sup­port­ed by inno­va­tion ser­vices.

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Oulu Inno­va­tion Alliance

The Oulu Inno­va­tion Alliance pro­vides you with a direct route to the most func­tion­al net­works and the most inno­v­a­tive ecosys­tems in the Oulu region. The OIA was estab­lished in 2009 to sup­port the unique col­lab­o­ra­tion so flu­ent­ly car­ried out between dif­fer­ent stake­hold­ers in Oulu. The ecosys­tems and clus­ters are pow­ered by a ver­sa­tile rep­re­sen­ta­tion of stake­hold­ers in edu­ca­tion, research, busi­ness, and the pub­lic sec­tor.

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Pole posi­tion for start­up com­pa­nies

The inno­va­tion activ­i­ties and excel­lent cir­cum­stances to cre­ate nov­el solu­tions in Oulu are based on the seam­less coop­er­a­tion between com­pa­nies, the pub­lic sec­tor, and edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tions. First-class study and train­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties and the com­pet­i­tive edge in tech­nol­o­gy will boost your busi­ness and ele­vate it to an inter­na­tion­al lev­el.

Start­up Sta­tion

Start­up Sta­tion offers inspi­ra­tion, infor­ma­tion, and net­work­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties to ear­ly-stage start­up com­pa­nies and aspir­ing entre­pre­neurs.

We bring togeth­er star­tups, ear­ly-stage growth com­pa­nies, advi­sors, incu­ba­tor pro­grammes, and ecosys­tem part­ners by organ­is­ing events and men­tor­ing pro­grammes, among oth­er things. Start­up Sta­tion is a safe envi­ron­ment for inno­vat­ing, shar­ing, fail­ing, suc­ceed­ing, and ris­ing to anoth­er lev­el.

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Deal­room

Find infor­ma­tion about star­tups, new inno­va­tions, investors, fund­ing rounds, and many oth­er issues con­cern­ing busi­ness activ­i­ties in the Oulu region. Star­tups, investors, and oth­er stake­hold­ers of the ecosys­tem can add infor­ma­tion about their com­pa­nies and organ­i­sa­tions to the data­base and edit their pro­files when nec­es­sary.

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Oulu Star­tups Data­base

Explore a list of Oulu star­tups, from new­ly formed teams to com­pa­nies that have suc­cess­ful­ly exit­ed. The data­base is man­aged by Business­Oulu staff and includes pub­lic infor­ma­tion such as short descrip­tions, web­site links, and indus­try tags.

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