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EESpäin Innovations Project

The EESpäin Innovations project is aimed at Southern Savo companies and people interested in innovation, who have a genuine desire to turn ideas and blanks into a commercial business.

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The goal of the project

The project was born from the need to promote the development and commercialization of especially challenging ideas and blanks.

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The goal is ecosystemically functioning innovation services that enable the development of demanding ideas towards commercialization.

The main measures of the project

  1. Bring out ideas that have genuine business opportunities and commercial potential
  2. Workshops: Advancing the innovation process and refining the idea from the idea to the customer
  3. Internationality in the development of innovation activities
  4. Information sessions: intellectual property rights, through which companies can increase their understanding of the importance of intellectual property rights (IPR) for business.
  5. Ecosystemically functioning expert teams that support challenging ideas and innovations
  6. Creating an innovation operating model/ service model

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The target group

The actual target groups of the project are operating companies and start-up entrepreneurs who have the will to develop a new, innovative business and increase their own R&D activities.

Indirect target groups are students and other people and teams interested in starting an innovative company.

In addition, the target group is organizations that offer services to companies and strive to support and develop innovation activity in the region.

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Facts

Project name:

EESpäin Innovations Project

Project duration: 1.9.2023–31.8.2025

Info

Lead partner: South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences
Area of strength: Digital economy
Competence edge: Entrepreneurship and innovation
Research unit: Xentre
Impact edge: Entrepreneurship and high added value

Budget

Financier and main source of funding: Co-funded by the European Union by Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment,
Total budget: 204 882 euros
EU part of the total budget: 163 906 euros