Southwest Finland and the Wroclaw and Gdansk regions in Poland are building co-operation to strengthen their competitiveness in the ICT sector The establishment of the European ICT Alliance will create e.g. conditions for wider use of data-driven test platforms The focus areas connecting the regions are, in particular, the maritime industry, logistics and services The……

Abacus Diagnostica has developed the new COVID-19 assay for respiratory infections for changing needs Influenza A and B, RSV, and SARS-CoV-2 viruses can now be analysed in one test The revised assay will be available before the approaching flu season Abacus Diagnostica is a small Finnish company developing and manufacturing assays and devices for rapid……

Tero Lahti adds to Blue Industry Park’s repertoire his long and varied experience consisting of things like Meyer Turku’s 300-million-euro investment project. The 55-hectare Blue Industry Park strengthens the competitiveness of the entire Finnish maritime cluster and industry The area is being molded into a global reference point for carbon neutral industry parks The development……

ArcDia has entered into a distribution agreement for the mariPOC platform with Bruker Corporation The agreement will promote the distribution of mariPOC in the European market Rapid and decentralized diagnostic solutions are urgently needed in the pandemic era to keep societies up and running ArcDia International Oy Ltd, Turku-based developer and manufacturer of the innovative……

The Wait, Aku Louhimies’ new feature film, is the first carbon negative film filmed in Finland The sustainably produced film will premiere in February 2021 The film was shot in the Turku Archipelago this August Aku Louhimies is one of the most successful directors in Finland. He is best known for his latest film, the……

International competition is looking for new business ideas for the bioeconomy Teams of 2 to 6 students from Finnish universities can participate in the competition Register for the competition by 10.10.2020 A Global Biobased Business Plan Competition, GBiB, has been launched in Finland and organised by the Turku Science Park Ltd. with the aim of……

The AIGA project develops Artificial Intelligence management models and the services and business ecosystems built around it The research work is believed to have a positive effect on the entire Finnish Artificial Intelligence ecosystem The two-year project receives funding from Business Finland A University of Turku led consortium has received two-year research funding from Business……

The challenge competition will increase the conditions for companies and citizens to utilize the data produced by the city The solutions are expected to be smoothly usable A total of EUR 15,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the three best The City of Turku is opening up more regional data on the web….…

Rester Oy, which will be built by the plant, will process companies’ disposal textiles, and Lounais-Suomen Jätehuolto Oy, which will become a tenant, will process household removal textiles with its own line. The future plant will be able to handle 12,000 tonnes of waste textiles annually, which is about 10 percent of Finland’s textile waste……

Alongside the shorter BusinessUp program, a longer Northbound Startups acceleration program will be launched this fall The new program is especially targeted at startups seeking international partnerships and funding The corona situation is taken into account in the implementation of the program, and instead of traveling, remote connections are preferred A Finnish-Swedish-Estonian startup accelerator, Northbound……