Innovation services

Open innovation services

Actively seek ideas and solutions from outside your own company or build partnerships with others for the benefit of your customers.

• Do you have a real-life challenge that you can’t solve alone or with your own people? Involve others to solve it! You can challenge companies, students, customers, researchers, job seekers and citizens as well as other innovators and idea generators to come up with ideas and test solutions. The solution to a challenge can generate new business for someone else.
• By co-creating with your customer, you gain valuable insights. You can also test your solution in a real environment and with real users.
• We organise meetings to match new ideas, talent and businesses. We enable unpredictable success stories for companies and groups of companies!

Oulun Innovation Alliance (OIA) – the best innovation partnerships

OIA is a strategic consortium of major research, development and innovation actors in the Oulu region, strengthening the region’s innovation capacity and the global competitiveness of Northern Finland.

Smart City Oulu – smart platforms and solutions

The Smart City Oulu website brings together smart solutions and the latest news from Oulu. Today, the city also serves as an open innovation platform.