The possibilities of artificial intelligence have been discussed for a long time, and its use is now expanding and growing rapidly in practice. This development can be achieved by studying the subject and implementing solutions already developed or developing new ones in cooperation with others.

Lloyd Ruddock works as a professor at the Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the University of Oulu. For a long time, the commercialization of research and all that related to it appeared similar to the dark side of the force in Star Wars to him. Now, however, he has been working with things connected with commercialization and innovation for more than a decade. What made him change his mind?

Juho Yliniemi, Assistant Professor at the University of Oulu, founded Keko Geopolymeerit Oy as a response to a practical need, and the business has grown steadily since the company was established. Yliniemi and Jouni Rissanen, the company's CEO, tell how the company was founded and how they ended up in the field.

Finland has official goal of increasing R&D investments into 4% of GDP by year 2030. For University of Oulu this means the increase in the volume of research projects. We intend to double the cooperation with different organizations by the year 2030.

When you set up a company for the first time, you will be dealing with many unfamiliar things. You may even come across a pitfall or two. The following tips from experts can help you pay attention to the right things.

AISpotter Oy is a company originating from the University of Oulu. The artificial intelligence algorithm finds predefined game situations from video recordings automatically.

Onnikka is a behavioral and lifestyle change management app that started its development at the University of Oulu more than 10 years ago. An interdisciplinary research collaboration between medicine and information systems sciences deviated a solution to curb the growth of the overweight epidemic.

Twenty years or so spent at the University of Oulu resulted in a tool for measuring brain function, which was commercialised through Cerenion Oy, a developer of medical devices. Ilkka’s first non-fiction work, dealing with the ISO 13485 standard, emerged a while later. All in all, what has happened along the way?

Open science has long been promoted in Finland. But does it exclude the commercial utilisation of research results?