Initiated to support the growth and competitiveness of Finland’s maritime industry, Maritime Accelerator programme will be implemented this year, too Royal Caribbean and Meyer Turku have already announced their participation in this year’s programme The programme received positive feedback; it helps big, globally operating companies to find new co-operation opportunities in growth-seeking SMEs. In the……

Artificial intelligence will change the health care practices considerably over the next two decades  Experts are saying that investments should be directed at basic health care in particular The international Life Science Live event is gathering leading life science experts to Turku in May ”Artificial intelligence will radically change the health care practices over the……

Turku Centre for Biotechnology launches a new brand name Turku Bioscience Over 200 researchers work at the Centre and it gains 4–6 million in supplementary funding Turku Bioscience and its drug development technology can support the operations of the planned future drug development centre Turku Centre for Biotechnology, a joint unit of the University of……

Two game projects/companies were awarded in Finnish Game Awards Gala Awarded teams were Turku Game Lab, Humak and Rival Games The number of employees in the industry grew to 3,200 in the end of 2018 Finland’s successful game industry celebrated and rewarded their best in the Finnish Game Awards 25.4. in Helsinki. A total of eight……

Professionals in technology Fields are searched to Turku in a global Talent Call Turku campaign  Five families from different parts of the world will win a trip to Turku in August 2019 Ensuring the availability of competent labour force is essential to the growth of the companies in the Turku Region There is a severe……

CB Health Access program facilitated the entry of Health Tech companies to distant markets The results, achieved sales 2,1M€ and 10M€ investment, clearly fulfilled all stated objectives Long-term agreements signed with South Korea, USA, India and Uganda In 2016 a 3-year CB Health Access program was initiated between Estonian, Finnish, Latvian and Swedish business development……

Turku-based ArcDia International brings its medical devices to the Chinese market This deal gives ArcDia a significant scale advantage ArcDia focuses on the development of innovative products for the decentralized testing of infectious diseases ArcDia International Oy Ltd, manufacturer of the successful mariPOC® infectious diseases testing platform, has entered into an exclusive license agreement with……

The first Life Science Accelerator programme in Finland produced excellent results Over a period of two years, nine new companies were founded and the participating companies gathered over 4 million euros of financing Started with ERDF funding, the programme is ending but will continue in autumn 2019 with an improved concept and under the new……

Finnish company Gasera has raised EUR 1.7 million in a recently completed funding round Gasera is a manufacturer of air quality measurement products  This significant funding injection will boost the growth of the Gasera product business in global markets Gasera, a Turku-based technology company, has raised a total of EUR 1.7 million in a funding……

According to an enquiry directed to companies in Southwest Finland nearly half of the companies do not yet know how to utilize Artificial Intelligence However, 60% of the companies find the subject interesting Education, concrete examples and experiments to be realized in cooperation are among the top wishes of the companies Utilizing AI (Artificial Intelligence)……