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.

Innovation Center team introductions continue with three experts. This part introduces Jouko, Head of the Innovation Centre, Legal Councel Sanna and Innovation Manager Pekka.

Eleven experts work at the Oulu University Innovation Centre. This story series presents interviews of team members compiled during the summer of 2022.

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.

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?

This spring, the Innovation Centre of the University of Oulu organized eight training courses related to intellectual property rights (IPR). We found out why participants took part in IPR trainings and what they learned from them.

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.

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

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