Spinverse - your emerging technology partner

Latest News

2010-09-03

This Environmental briefing produced by Spinverse Oy and Empa outlines the social and economical relevance of nano-enabled photocatalysis, provides background information on the technology, and highlights further challenges to be addressed. The summary was produced for the ObservatoryNANO project, which is funded under FP7.

Read on...
2010-08-23
Picture reference: Heino, M. T. et al. 2010. Cobalt Nanoparticle Langmuir−Schaef

Spinverse Expert Dr. Markku Heino has co-authored two scientific papers regarding nanomaterials published just recently in the web. Both papers are based on his work at Nokia Research Center, NanoSciences lab. showing the results of the cooperation between NRC and Aalto University.

Read on...
2010-08-12

The five-year DEMAPP program, managed by Spinverse, received a positive funding decision from Tekes in June 2010. Tekes will  fund the participating organizations in the program with a maximum of 3.9 Million euros during the second year (1.6.2010-31.5.2011).

Read on...
2010-06-16
Spinverse Millennium Youth Camp

International Millennium Youth Camp (MY Camp) was organised first time in Finland in June, 2010. The MY Camp gathered talented 16-19 year-olds to do international science in the Helsinki metropolitan area. Around 1000 youngsters from 62 countries applied to the MY Camp. In the end, 30 youngsters from 14 countries were chosen in the two-phase selection process. The aim of the week was to increase young people's interest in natural sciences and technology.

Read on...
2010-06-01
LUT

The first EU-Russia Innovation Forum was held in Lappeenranta, Finland on May 25th -27th 2010. The event, whose attendees included the Prime Ministers of Russia and Finland, featured a keynote presentation on the role of commercialisation in innovation from Spinverse CEO Pekka Koponen.

Read on...
2010-05-05
Innovation Leadership Summit

This exclusive summit takes place during the Millennium Technology Week on Tuesday 8th June 2010 at the Finnish National Opera House.

Innovation Leadership Summit celebrates the important partnership between business and academia. The Millennium Technology Prize Laureates will be joined by innovation thought leaders and the senior executives to discuss their diverse perspectives and experiences of bringing these technologies to market.

Read on...
2010-04-14
Millennium Technology Prize

The 2010 Millennium Technology Prize Laureates have been announced. They are:

Professor Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge, UK.

Read on...
2010-03-18
Mobility and antennas

According to the report the cluster companies have managed to stay profitable and will grow rapidly in 2010. They survived the downturn well and during last year they increased their solution portfolios. Their solutions typically consist of productised software and it's most commonly targeted to support field operations. Most solutions rely on widespread technologies and devices.

Read on...
2009-12-22
World Vision

This Christmas, instead of sending Christmas cards, Spinverse has made a donation to the World Vision association in order to help mitigate the effects of climate change and to improve children’s' living conditions. World Vision is the world’s largest foster child organization. It serves close to 100 million people in nearly 100 countries around the world.

Read on...
2009-11-25
Fimecc SHOK

Spinverse started managing the Demanding Applications program (DEMAPP) of Fimecc Ltd in August 2009. The program is set for 5 years and it is worth 32 M€.

DEMAPP is one of the six programmes that Fimecc Ltd has started in 2009. Fimecc is the Finnish Metals and Engineering Cluster, one of Finland’s five new Strategic Centers of Excellence for science, technology and innovation (SHOKs).

Read on...