Research to business

We at Innovation Centre help you to turn your research into business. We have experts working with commercialising, intellectual property rights, discovering business potential and developing business ideas. 

We help applying for funding and building the collaboration networks. 

Innovation Centre offers everything you need to develop a business: 

• recognising the potential idea 

• searching for the funding opportunities 

• business coaching and schooling 

• building the team 

• support in finding partners 

Innovation Centre serves both the University of Oulu and Oulu University of Applied Sciences. It combines the services and research projects of the two universities. Innovation Centre helps researchers to work with companies and opens opportunities for the companies to work with researchers.

We are looking for business mentors: experts, experienced entrepreneurs, or investors, who want to put an effort on developing new business. In addition, we coach researchers towards funding, the most important funding instrument being Business Finland. We also instruct in intellectual property rights and support student entrepreneurship.

We help researchers and businesses with all intellectual property right issues and questions including negotiating IPR transfer prices and agreements, patenting or licensing. We also connect companies looking for technical solutions with researchers. 

Research to Business (R2B) is a Business Finland funding instrument for commercialising research. It aims at licensing technologies and making it possible to found new start-ups.

Research-based start-ups are a part of the impact the university has on society. The University of Oulu encourages its personnel, researchers, and students to participate in business and utilising their expertise also outside the academic world. 

Research at the university produces a wide range of results and technologies for licensing including biological materials, computer programs, databases, and other inventions. Look at our offerings and discover new research results to grow your business. 

Do you need help in commercialising your research? Contact us!

Janne Haverinen
Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Humanities, Education, OBS, KSI, Architects
janne.haverinen(at)oulu.fi

Markku Känsäkoski
Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Science, Medicine, Technology, separate units
markku.kansakoski(at)oulu.fi

Ville Saarenpää
Undergraduate students
ville.saarenpaa(at)oulu.fi

Or send email to Innovation Centre: innovaatiokeskus@oulu.fi