Innovations and entrepreneurship

Innovations

This theme area aims at developing:

• new innovation platforms
• open R&D methods
• customer oriented development
• multidisciplinary methods
  

All in all It is essential to bear in mind that innovativeness, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit does not look at the age. Everyone is capable of taking part in innovation processes. We are also looking at innovations which are not solely technology-based.

Entrepreneurship

In developing entrepreneurship especially youth and creative industries are main target groups in the Creative Tampere programme. One example of an innovation platform is Demola.
Demola:

• makes the co-operation between companies and universities closer
• Demola student teams of different backgrounds: technical, economical, art, design ..
• Demola teams make company projects with open innovation principle
• company gives the problem to solve for student teams
  
• teams try to solve the problem and create a feasible solution / a demo
• the inventor/team owns the rights to the invention, the team gets compensation for it
  

Demola project is led by Technology Centre Hermia together with universities. Nokia was the initiator for Demola.
Learn more: www.demola.fi