Innovation activities

Do you want to use the latest research information to boost your business? Are you looking for a reliable partner to engage in product development and building sustainable social solutions? The innovation activities of the University of Eastern Finland meet the needs of society and business and industry, support competence-based economic growth, and strengthen regional innovation clusters.

By engaging in innovation activities with companies, we generate market-oriented research, product and service solutions for the future, global business and entrepreneurship requiring high-level expertise, and the latest research information for use in reforming business and industry and meeting society’s service needs.

Our target groups for innovation

Companies that use high-quality research in their business.
Public sector actors that promote the building of a sustainable welfare society through research information.
Researchers who want their research to be productive and to have societal impact.
Students who are interested in developing their capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Innovation collaboration in practice

Collaboration between the university and companies refers to, for example, co-development aimed at generating new innovations, use of research expertise and infrastructure to implement commissioned research, and the business application of inventions and expertise created at the university. The collaboration also includes assessing the business impact of research together with the companies and consulting business experts when the research is intended to be commercialised.

Innovation collaboration gives companies access to the latest research information and expertise, thus creating the conditions for developing the companies’ own operations and generating new innovations and business. New ideas, processes, products, operating models, and recruitments give the companies a competitive edge.

The university and social actors form competence clusters, which enable the sharing of expertise and improve the availability of services to those participating in innovation activities. The university’s co-development channels are ecosystems of impact.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Services

Ecosystems of impact