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Startup Korea Roundtable 2Q 2015_Finland
1. The Start-Up Support Ecosystem in Finland
D.Camp RoundTable
Finpro (Finland Trade Center)
Yoon-Mee Kim
Senior Advisor
ym.kim@finpro.fi
April 28, 2015
8. Demola Tampere
• Launch of Demola Network in 2008
• 100 projects and 450 students annually
• 40 % of students are international
• Partner companies have licensed 80 % of the project
outputs and hired 15 % of Demola’s students
Demola, Tampere
9. Through this Demola project for ABB
in 2013, I learnt how to
communicate with people from
different fields who have totally
different point of view compared to
me. I could also improve my English
skills and understand how theories
can be applied into real market
situations.
Ms. Kim, GE International Inc. Korea
Demola, Tampere
14. Closing thoughts
- Students-driven social innovation
- Government driven vs. private driven
- How to create new values and be sustainable, not to be the
“boondoggles”
- if not born-global, it is cannibalizing.
- Reduce the number of start-up support orgs -> Scale up
- Collaboration is the competitive advantage
- What about the social-cultural difference? Entrepreneurship
education and start-up supports that fit with Korean culture
Hinweis der Redaktion
PACE : A 2-week interdisciplinary entrepreneurial course, which combines the most recent insights from psychology, identity theory, and creativity research with the latest entrepreneurship education research. The first PACE course was at Aarhus University, Denmark and after Aalto University in 2015 it will run in France and in 2016 in the USA.
ACE : The aim of ACE is to commercialize research that originates in Aalto University. ACE is also the technology transfer office of Aalto University and manages Aalto’s intellectual property rights (IPR). ACE offers its commercialization services to and accept invention disclosures and business ideas from Aalto researchers, students and staff. ACE is Tekes funded (TUTL) and consists of a team of 15 people from various disciplines. In 2013, ACE got 150 Innovation disclosures, established 8 startup companies and filed 28 first filings to protect Aalto University research based inventions.
AEEL : Aalto University Executive Education offers high-profile leadership development services (Aalto EE), trainings for professionals (Aalto PRO), and development services for entrepreneurs (Aalto ENT). Aalto University Executive Education Ltd is fully owned by Aalto University.
SBC : SBC at the Aalto University School of Economics (Aalto SBC) specialises in developing entrepreneurship and business skills. Aalto SBC is primarily involved in training, research and development, with a strong emphasis on creative entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in the creative sectors. Aalto SBC’s main target groups are entrepreneurs, students and teachers. Approximately 4000 people are involved in Aalto SBC training events annually. SBC also co-operates closely with government officials on policy recommendations. Aalto SBC’s offices consists of 60 specialists.
Smart Retro project’s main funder is Nordic Innovation Fund. Nordic Innovation funds Nordic projects that boost innovation and competitiveness in the Nordic business sector and lead to commercial and sustainable development. Smart Retro is part of Nordic Innovation’s Nordic Built Programme. Nordic Built is a Nordic initiative to accelerate the development of sustainable building concepts. Nordic Built is initiated by the Nordic Ministers for Trade and Industry. It combines key Nordic strengths, provides attractive and effective arenas for collaboration and realises concrete projects that demonstrate world-class scalable solutions.
http://www.sustainable-lifestyles.eu/
Johanna Liukkonen : johanna.liukkonen@demoshelsinki.fi / +358 40 154 6452
Maria Ritola, Researcher, Head of the Resource Smart Economy research area. At Demos Helsinki Maria leads the Resource Smart Economy research area and operations of Peloton portfolio that leverages state of the art research to create sustainable business strategies with private and public sector partners. Maria is also one of the founders of Peloton Club, Finland's flagship consumer cleantech incubator combining clean and digital. At Demos Helsinki, Maria leads Peloton portfolio which translates opportunities arising from the resource revolution for private and public sector organizations. She was also one of the lead researchers in European Commission’s SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 research project. The study involved eight European research institutes, ranging from CSCP and Politechnico di Milano, and companies from IKEA to Henkel. The project resulted in a broad understanding of untapped opportunities in consumer markets related to natural resource use and behaviour change.
Industrial Counsellor, Ministry of Employment and the Economy, Sakari Immonen, TEM, phone +358 (0)50 592 2128, name.surname@tem.fiDirector Jukka Häyrynen, TEKES; phone +358 (0)50 5577 970, name.surname@tekes.fiSpecial Adviser to the Minister of Economic Affairs Pete Pokkinen, TEM, phone +358 (0)40 756 7180
The brains and money behind Supercell Oy have launched an early stage investment vehicle to give embryonic Nordic startups what their American counterparts in Silicon Valley receive from super angel investors: big investments with a long horizon.
A team including Finnish venture capital firm Lifeline Ventures, which funded Supercell in its early days, and several members of Supercell have raised €15 million to boost the local startup scene. “Our focus will be on startups from Finland and nearby countries such as Estonia and Sweden,” Lifeline’s partner, said.
Ilkka Paananen, Supercell’s chief executive is the single biggest investor in the vehicle, having put up €5 million.
Lifeline’s new investment vehicle is a firm, not a venture capital fund with a fixed investment period and expiration date when its investments are liquidated. “We have no preset target date when we plan to exit from our investment. Instead we can be patient and stay in the same boat with the company’s founders as long as it takes to succeed,” said a Lifeline partner.
Due to the country’s small size and the relatively short history of its VC scene, individual early stage investments by Finnish investors have been small, typically around €50,000 ($70,000). As a result, promising Finnish startups have been compelled to seek early stage funding from abroad.
Initially Supercell’s six founders combined invested €270,000 ($373,000). In addition, the company received an early stage loan of slightly less than €400,000 ($550,000) from Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation.
But for its first proper funding round of €750,000 ($1 million) in November 2010, Supercell couldn’t rely exclusively on Finnish investors but had to turn also to foreign investors
funding at an early stage for a startup is to shield it from time pressures. “Say a good company gets a million early on, instead of having six months it can have 12 or even 18 months to get its team and business plan in the right alignment,” Mr. Ahopelto says.