Rolls-Royce and Finferries have successfully demonstrated the world’s first fully autonomous ferry Rolls-Royce has so far clocked close to 400 hours of sea trials Mikael Makinen, Rolls-Royce, President – Commercial Marine, said: “Today marks a huge step forward in the journey towards autonomous shipping Rolls-Royce and Finnish state-owned ferry operator Finferries have today successfully demonstrated……

Maritime Accelerator found new partnerships between global maritime companies and growth-seeking startups In the finals global partners announced their own favourites: Vital Vio, Thermal Radar and Delta Cygni Labs The planning of the Maritime Accelerator programme for 2019 has already begun  Leading international maritime industry companies Royal Caribbean, Wärtsilä and Meyer Turku chose their favourites among……

The turnover of Turku-based TSR Group increased after starting export sales Contact to Turku Science Park Ltd led to quick action in 2016 Enterprise Europe Network supported TSR Group in internationalisation When Finnish lighting company TSRGroup was looking to export its flagship product WorkLite to foreign markets, it turned to the Enterprise Europe Network for……

The winner of the 7th BusinessUp acceleration program was Zero Gravity BusinessUp’s participants are often experienced professionals or researchers from higher education institutions in the region Next BusinessUp programme will start in February BusinessUp business acceleration program, which was organized by Turku Science Park Ltd for business start-up companies, ended on Wednesday with space startup……

The first period of maritime industry business accelerator programme will close at the beginning of December The best startups will be presented to the public in Helsinki on 4 December The closing event is a side event of Slush, it’s free of charge but registering is required Maritime Accelerator, a business accelerator for maritime industry……

Growing need for experts threatens to slow down the economic growth in Finland and the Turku region Business Finland and the biggest cities have begun to attract experts Talent Turku helps the Turku region enterprises in searching for international experts The positive structural change in Southwest Finland and the brisk economic growth of the rest……

MetGen’s business is focused on designing and manufacturing industrial enzymes as well as licensing technologies Kaarina-based company has also succeeded in gathering a significant amount of public funding for the development of new, more durable clean technology solutions MetGen received the coveted annual John Sime Award in October MetGen, based in Kaarina, Finland, is an……

Finnish start-up won the Start-Up competition of the NOME Annual Meeting The victorious Te?ted team participated the BusinessUp acceleration programme 2016 The Nordic Mentor Network for Entrepreneurship is coordinated in Finland by Turku Science Park Ltd The Finnish university spin-out Tezted was the winner of the diagnostics track – and the overall winner of the……

Turku-based DelSiTech Ltd got funding from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Aim is to develop thermostabilized vaccines New technology is especially important in developing countries DelSiTech Ltd, a Finnish drug delivery and drug development company, today announced significant grant funding to support the development of thermostabilized viral vaccines from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation….…

First Bootcamp of the Maritime Accelerator is now behind. 10 genius startups and maritime corporations started their journey towards the grand finale of the accelerator in Slush 2018. The goal of the first Bootcamp was to define challenges, find out opportunities and build up collaboration proposals together. The first day of the Bootcamp was about……