Juha Lipponen

Järvenpää Finland

Manufacturing

Juha Lipponen has an exceptionally productive and profitable innovator career. Already in his MSc study in 1993, he – together with Pekka Koivukunnas – made a truly revolutionary innovation which completely replaced a piece of 150-year old finishing technology in paper machines. The concept following the invention (http://bit.ly/9GaAIz) has generated total sales of several hundreds of millions of Euros. Juha Lipponen then continued his innovator and R&D career within Metso, bringing his contribution to several Metso’s breakthrough technologies in many areas of paper machinery technology. Juha Lipponen holds 43 patents (source: Espacenet). Juha Lipponen started his PhD research in...