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.

In the last round of introductions we present you Business Development Manager Markku Känsäkoski and Customer Manager Petri Leukkunen.

It is time for the third introduction round of Innovation Centre experts. Today we will take a closer look at Kaisa Still, Maarit Jokela and Janne Haverinen.

Making and disclosing an invention, the related processes within the University and the patenting process itself form a continuum.

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?

Arina Cooperative Association and the University of Oulu have a long history of cooperation. Last spring, the organisations started a new project in the form of a master’s thesis group established through multidisciplinary cooperation, where even more master’s thesis students could delve into subjects provided by Arina.