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Innovation

Startups show Finnish innovation in Oulu
Netsono, Juha Torvinen, Breaking Ice Cube, KeepLoop mobile microscope, Midnight Pitch Fest
Business & innovationEconomy

Startups show Finnish innovation in Oulu

Each year at Midnight Pitch Fest in Oulu, innovative startups seek fame and fortune. We talk to some of the best.

Tagged in EconomyInnovation
All-time top 12 Finnish design products
A sign on a wooden wall saying 'sauna'.
Arts & cultureDesign

All-time top 12 Finnish design products

On our Top 12 list of Finnish design that contributes to wellbeing: sauna, Moomins, Marimekko and a few surprises.

Tagged in DesignInnovationMoomin
Finland features future learning methods
Engaging Learning Environment, Helsinki World Design Capital 2012, University of Helsinki, Minerva Plaza, living lab, RYM, Flinga, Nordtouch
Business & innovationInnovation

Finland features future learning methods

Engaging Learning Environment, part of Helsinki’s year as 2012 World Design Capital, shows how tech and teaching will combine.

Tagged in InnovationTechnology
How Finnish robots could save the world
ZenRobotics, robots that recycle, Finland
Business & innovationInnovation

How Finnish robots could save the world

ZenRobotics, an environmentally conscious Finnish startup, is bringing in robots to help save us from drowning in waste.

Tagged in InnovationRecycling
Good taste with passion – 21 years rewarded
Linus Torvalds, Finland
Business & innovationTechnology

Good taste with passion – 21 years rewarded

Linus Torvalds has won the Millennium Technology Prize for developing the open source operating system Linux, used by millions of people worldwide.

Tagged in InnovationTechnology
Cancer treatment in Finland getting personal
Business & innovationInnovation

Cancer treatment in Finland getting personal

Finnish doctors are taking creative, patient-oriented approaches to defeating a growing public health problem: cancer.

Tagged in BusinessInnovationResearch
Choking off cancer cells
Business & innovationInnovation

Choking off cancer cells

We’re one of the first nonspecialist publications to hear how professor Kari Alitalo and his team are breaking ground with a new procedure to limit or even halt a cancer tumour’s growth.

Tagged in InnovationResearch
Finnish bioenergy show-how grows
Life & societyEnvironment

Finnish bioenergy show-how grows

Green energy promoters around the world are watching eastern Finland, Europe’s leading region in sustainable wood energy.

Tagged in EnvironmentForestryInnovation

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