Inno­va­tions

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.

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.