Maritime Accelerator’s first Bootcamp is around the corner and we are more than happy to introduce you few of the startups that are joining our corporate partners on this exciting journey. The goal of the Maritime Accelerator is to speed up building new partnerships between maritime corporations and the most innovative global startups. With the……

Nordic Catalyst has joined the collaboration network of Smart Chemistry Park. The company offers consulting services for the optimization of organizational innovation processes and for the development and commercialization of new technologies in the chemical and life-science sectors. Nordic Catalyst is located in Vienna, Austria, and it was founded by Saara Inkinen, who completed her doctoral……

Finnish life science sector is doing well Equity investments in new life science firms are growing Turku region is an innovative operating environment for Bayer Nordic Arranged for the 12th time, the HealthBIO seminar attracted a record-high number of participants to the familiar venue, Conference Centre Mauno in Turku Science Park. More than 250 people……

Maritime Accelerator is an accelerator program gathering the leading companies in maritime industry and the most innovative startups globally to build a fertile ecosystem and new concrete business ventures. The partner kick off of the accelerator is now behind and it’s time to take closer look to the startups Avanto Ventures’ screening team has found……

Johanna Ivaska, Academy Professor of Biochemistry has been appointed Head & Vice President of Oncology Research She will continue working also at University of  Turku with her internationally recognised research team Rector of  the University of Turku: Ivaska’s partial transfer to Orion will be a model for developing co-operation with the private sector in the future……

Turku-based HyTest will get a new majority shareholder The founders and management team will remain as significant shareholders In addition to Turku, the company has employees in USA and Asia  Summa Equity will become majority shareholder of Finnish company HyTest, producer of antibodies and antigens for the diagnostic industry. The growing company operates in a global market where……

The theme of the Entrepreneur Days, which will be held at the Turku Fair Center, is “Step Forward” Over 2000 Finnish and foreign entrepreneurs are expected The meeting belongs to the series of celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the Association of Southwest Finland Enterprises The Entrepreneur Days is organized by the Federation of Finnish……

Six globally operating maritime industry companies seek among start-ups and growth companies for partnerships The goal is to strengthen the innovativeness of the industry The programme is implemented by the regional development company Turku Science Park Ltd with partner Avanto Ventures Oy In Maritime Accelerator, traditional maritime industry players operating on global markets, such as……

Maritime Accelerator is already sailing in full speed towards the first bootcamp in October. The corporate partners Wärtsilä, Royal Caribbean, Meyer Turku, Foreship, NAPA Group and Cadmatic have kicked off their work and started clearing their scopes with the experts from Turku Business Region and Avanto Ventures. Marjo Keiramo, Senior Program Manager from Royal Caribbean,……

Vaadin’s technologies are today used by 100 million end-users The new Vaadin 10 gives developers direct access from the JVM to the browser The company’s 150 staff is located in Finland, Northern California, and Germany Vaadin has released Vaadin 10, its largest overhaul of a development platform for the 9 million Java developer community. Vaadin……