As a celebration of Valentine’s Day, today’s InnoBlog lightly reflects on relationships as a central element in cooperation, and the professional friendship as a form of relationship.

Cooperation in research with businesses is an efficient way of expanding your networks and to increase reputation outside the university. Juho Yliniemi presented the progress of his network and benefits of company cooperation in January’s InnoVisitor event.

A year has passed, and it's time to report University of Oulu's innovation activity results. University's and researchers' innovation activity has gone on strong, and few records were made in patent- and licensing fields.

Vuoden 2022 viimeisenä innobloggauksena Innovaatiokeskuksen viestintäharjoittelija pohtii kuluneita kuukausia ja fiiliksiä innovaatiotyöstä.

We invited Esko Herrala to share his experience on science based entrepreneurship and possible challenges in the beginning of the business.

Monetization of inventions and patents is also a challenge and important topic in university. Our researchers come up with new IP in terms of inventions, patent applications and even patents constantly.

Read about 6G systems handled in University Business Forum, and a workshop where participants envisioned the future of said technology!

University Business Forum gathered together to explore the renewing power of research and businesses.

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.

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.

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.