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Algae streams in the ocean

Origin by Ocean develops algae-based products to fight for cleaner oceans

Origin by Ocean turns algae into a variety of ingredients while fighting the eutrophication problem in our seas. The company plans to open its first commercial biorefinery in 2025.

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Innovation Home brings startups and corporations together with its contemporary co-working concept

Innovation Home offers you a pass to a network of offices in Finland, Los Angeles, and Singapore. Innovation Home is a community of startups, corporate partners and investors — an optimal starting point for networking and matchmaking.

Colourful iPad cases made of Ioncell

Introducing Ioncell — interview with Jari Laine, Senior Innovation Advisor at Aalto University

Ioncell, the sustainable fibre developed at Aalto University, is revolutionising the fashion industry. Senior Innovation Advisor Jari Laine talks about the past, present, and future of the project.

Circular economy

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Ioncell — Aalto University's sustainable fibre is changing the fashion industry 

Ioncell, a cutting-edge Aalto University innovation, turns pulp and post-consumer textiles into high-quality fibres. The versatile material could help replace cotton and polyesters in the future.

Circular economy

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Espoo's Kera district is the new standard in smart city piloting environments

The Kera district in Espoo is setting a new sustainable smart city pilot environment standard — with Nokia providing the 5G platform and the city and local companies the smart city infrastructure.

Circular economy

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Paptic fights plastic pollution with a scalable wood-based packaging material

Paptic produces a wood-based, easily scalable and reusable packaging material that replaces the short life-span products that litter oceans and other water areas.

Circular economy

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Introducing FLEXOUND — interview with Mervi Heinaro, CEO of the augmented audio startup

FLEXOUND has created an audio system that lets you feel the sound touch your skin. CEO Mervi Heinaro talks about how FLEXOUND Augmented Audio™ technology is disrupting the audio industry.

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FLEXOUND's augmented audio technology changes how people experience sound

FLEXOUND is a deep tech startup that has developed FLEXOUND Augmented Audio™ — the audio system that lets you feel the sound touch your skin.

Iso Omena Service Centre

Iso Omena Service Centre — a meeting place where innovations spring to life

Iso Omena Service Centre is Espoo's intelligent innovation to offer quality public services in a city made of five big centres and numerous smaller ones spread out on a 312 km² area.

Built environment

Nao robot. Photo: Omnia

Omnia AI Lab — an accelerator of a digitally equal community

How will AI affect our day-to-day living? Omnia AI Lab, the City of Espoo's adult education initiative, is here to do just that: Put the every day into artificial intelligence.

Education & learning

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Introducing Aalto Design Factory — interview with Kalevi Ekman, Director

Aalto Design Factory is Aalto University's product design and learning hub established in 2008. Kalevi Ekman, the Director, talks about why Design Factory produces the best product designers in the world.

Education & learning

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Aalto Design Factory — a training ground for the world’s best product designers

Aalto Design Factory trains the world’s best product designers. Nowadays, the Espoo-based product development and learning hub has a global network of Design Factories.

Education & learning

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