Business Finland Champions Awards 2025
Welcome to celebrate the projects funded by Business Finland in 2024! The event provides a fantastic chance to learn more about applying for BF project funding.
2.12. InnoWebinar: Copyright, Data Protection, Privacy, and Research Ethics
Copyright, data protection, and privacy — what do they protect? How should these aspects be considered when planning and conducting research? Join our webinar and learn more!
How to master intellectual property rights? By participating in fall training sessions of course!
Seize the opportunity by participating in our spring training sessions and learn to master IPR matters. We offer both concise webinars and more extensive, credit-bearing courses.
15.11. InnoVisitor: Blueprint for Growth — How businesses and universities can build the future together? Featuring Mikael Pentikäinen
Joining us is Mikael Pentikäinen, the CEO of Yrittäjät, who will share his insightful perspectives on how businesses and universities can unite their strengths in both research and education.
24.10. Hear about Business Finland's new Working Life Research Call and find research partners to collaborate with!
Join our special event where we’ll gather to listen to Business Finland's info session, meet other researchers, and connect with the Innovation Centre experts!
30.10. InnoVisitor — Innovative education solutions for regional needs
Come and learn how to create and implement training solutions that meet regional training needs. We will also present examples of how ideas have been turned into reality.
6.9. InnoVisitor breakfast — meet LessonLab!
To celebrate Northern Finland's Entrepreneurship week, we invite you to enjoy breakfast in the Innovation Centre's Living Room, where we will be joined by Miska Visuri from LessonLab!
29.8. InnoVisitor — The Finnish Research Impact Foundation
Petro Poutanen talks about the funding opportunities for researchers provided by The Finnish Research Impact Foundation. Ulla Lassi comments from a researcher's perspective and Umicore's Janne Marjelund from a business perspective.
22.8. Finnish Maritime Cluster’s Meyer Turku and Wärtsilä visit Oulu
Meyer Turku and Wärtsilä from the Finnish Maritime Cluster, will visit the University of Oulu on 22 August.
20.8. Kempower visits the University of Oulu
Kempower’s Heavy Electric Traffic (HETE) ecosystem’s Research Manager Tommi Rissanen visits the University of Oulu. He will present opportunities for collaboration for both researchers and companies.
University Business Forum 2024
Collaborate with businesses from startups to billion-dollar companies, learn about the latest research and hear inspiring insights from top speakers.
12.6. Business Finland info on financing and the Digital Resilience program
Welcome to listen to the latest news about Business Finland's funding and the Digital Resilience program.
12.6. InnoWebinar: From Idea to Innovation — Reporting, Funding, and Commercializing an Invention
Join the InnoWebinar to learn how to report an invention and why it's beneficial to do so.
15.5. InnoWebinar: Intellectual Property Rights in Research Projects
Welcome to the webinar where we will discuss Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in BF, Horizon, EAKR, and Academy projects.
10.4. 24.4. and 8.5. Practical tips for company collaboration for researchers info series
How to find industry partners? How to attract them to research projects and what do you need to know about Business Finland project contracts? University Innovation Centre organizes an info series, which presents practical tips for company collaboration for researchers.
24.4. Teacher, researcher, student: Get to know copyrights!
Wondering about copyright? How can I utilize different materials in teaching and research? Join the training session and get to know copyrights!
April 26 — University Inventor Day
Join us to celebrate inventions and inventors! On University Inventor Day, we will reveal and reward our researchers at the University of Oulu who have made the most invention disclosures in 2023.
April 4 - InnoWebinar: Design rights in protecting graphic user interfaces and architecture
Welcome to our InnoWebinar where we delve into the intricacies of design rights! Design rights can be used to protect the appearance and shape of a product. In this webinar, we will focus on design rights, particularly from the perspective of graphic user interfaces and architecture in applications such as computer programs.
March 21. InnoVisitor: From the idea of students to a growth company and onto the stock exchange
Buutti Ltd. started with the idea of four students from the University of Oulu and is now a company with over a hundred employees. Come and listen to where it all began and what has been learned along the way.