Merie Kannampuzha, DSc.’s Post

Yesterday the former Italian prime minister #MarioDraghi published the report (video in comments) on European competitiveness which clearly stated "The problem is not that Europe lacks ideas or ambition (...) but that innovation is blocked at the next stage: we are failing to translate innovation into commercialisation,". Last week, I had a wonderful chat over coffee with Marko Seppä , who hired me, a young engineer to work with the Indian mobile health kiosk concept at the Global Venture Lab, Finland many years ago . We discussed about the challenges for commercializing innovations in Europe, his new startup enabler tool and about the Founder Mode essay by Paul Graham. All my ex-colleagues would remember how Marko talked about entrepreneur mode and manager mode all those years ago. At GVL, along with team mates we worked on the GVL live case of companies with the #JYU students while developing and testing the 'Runway to Growth' (Kasvun kiitorata) concept to help early stage startups , which was later developed by Chamber of Commerce in Central Finland (Keski-Suomen Kauppakamari) to #KasvuOpen (link in comments). A shout out to the GVL team mates who have become 'enablers' themselves and to the glorious time we had : Mari Suoranta Aki Soudunsaari Timo Seppala Christian Aspegren Mikko Oksanen Leni Kuivaniemi Mitro Kivinen Mia Häkkinen Mila Hakanen Jane Porter Ilkka Hämäläinen . Also Sujay Santra, great to see what Indian mobile health kiosk has become. Kiitos paljon Marko and Mari for introducing me to the world of entrepreneurship and commercialization of innovations. #Commercialization #Entrepreneurship #EUcompetitiveness #Innovation #Finland #Jyväskylä

https://lnkd.in/g7mnNphY Once in every two years Technology Academy Finland, established by Finnish industries, academic institutions, and the state of Finland awards Millenium technology Prize for innovations for a better life. This year, the award goes to Prof. Bantval Jayant Baliga born in Chennai, India. Prof. Baliga patented the IGBT technology in the 1980s. IGBT or Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor is the main component in almost all frequency converters. Compared to previous components, IGBT technology produces less waste heat. During the last 30 years, it has been estimated that with the help of this technology it has been possible to reduce carbon dioxide emissions worldwide by more than 82 gigatons. In 2016, Forbes Magazine named Baliga as the man with the world's largest negative carbon footprint. The award will be given by the President of Finland Alexander Stubb in October in Espoo. #MilleniumTechnologyPrize #Electronics #Engineering #India #Finland #NegativeCarbonFootPrint

Kerala announces its first robotics park in Thrissur #Kerala #Robotics #Engineering

For me, today is the wonderful day to declare the result of the multi-month effort with my team to develop the project consortium and proposal for an innovation hub for rare earth elements and permanent magnets in Europe. I am happy to announce that CLIC Innovation Oy will be coordinating the REMHub project, a four-year #Horizon Innovation Action EU-funded project starting in October involving 24 project partners from six countries. University of Oulu, Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) / Geologian tutkimuskeskus (GTK), Terrafame Ltd, Muon Solutions, University of Helsinki, Bambra Oy, Weeefiner, Politecnico di Milano, Opigeo Srl, Osai A.S. S.p.A.,RarEarth, Haiki+, CINKARNA, Domel, JUNG D.O.O., Magneti Ljubljana, d.d., TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology, BiotaTec - Next Gen BioMining Centre, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering , ICAMCyL Foundation, EcoCastulum, AIMEN Centro Tecnológico, Institute for Methods Innovation #RareEarths #PermanentMagnets #EUResilience #CriticalRawMaterials #Finland #GreenEnergyTransition #InnovationHub #ReX

An explainer on AI's insatiable energy demand featuring brilliant Dr. Sasha Luccioni. A typical ChatGPT query consumes ten times more energy than an average Google search. #ChatGPT #Energydemand #DataCenters #ClimateTargets

Etsimme uusia työkavereita !! Meillä CLIC Innovation Oy:ssä on kolme uutta tehtävää täytettävänä (kahta kehityspäällikköä ja yhtä hallintokoordinaattoria). Hakuaika päättyy 31.8.2024. Haluatko mielenkiintoisia työtehtävia vihreän siirtymän liittyviä hankkeessa, älykkäitä ja mukavia työkavereita ja upeat näkymät Itämerelle toimistostasi? Hae meille töihin:

Thank you for excellent speakers today at the #HYGCEL Vetyklusteri - H2 Cluster Finland joint seminar, including Finnish Minister of Climate and the Environment Kai Mykkänen. Special thanks to HYGCEL research lead Mari Tuomaala, Chair of Vetyklusteri - H2 Cluster Finland ,Simo Säynevirta and my wonderful colleagues at CLIC Innovation Oy Pia Salokoski, Susanna Kupiainen and Niko Pentikäinen for all the coordination behind the event.

The joint seminar day of #HYGCEL and Vetyklusteri - H2 Cluster Finland was concluded with a discussion on how #Finland could be a leading player in the global #Hydrogen economy . ⋙ Pami Aalto from Tampere University presented the #HYGCEL project research results on how global policies and geopolitical aspects affect Finnish Hydrogen economy ⋙ The session was led by Marko Janhunen from Gasgrid. ⋙The panelists were Riitta Silvennoinen from Deloitte, Pami Aalto, Simo Säynevirta from ABB and Petteri Laaksonen from LUT University

Minister of Climate and the Environment Kai Mykkänen presenting the strategy to make #Finland a clean energy superpower and the role of #Hydrogen projects for the strategy at the #HYGCEL and Vetyklusteri - H2 Cluster Finland joint seminar. #HYGCEL project is funded by Business Finland #Finland #NordicWay #greenenergytransition

#HYGCEL researcher presenting the scenarios in which #Finland could supply 10% of EU's renewable electricity. The session on #HYGCEL project results was opened by HYGCEL research elad Mari Tuomaala ➳ Hannu Karjunen, Tero Tynjälä from LUT University and Sami Repo from Tampere University presented the findings regarding resource potentials and regional imbalances in infrastructure development    ➳ Dario Nikzad from VaasaETT presented the company R&D project findings supporting Finland’s competitiveness in hydrogen production compared to the other EU countries ➳  Christian Breyer and Satu Lipiäinen presented the results on the modelling of electricity, hydrogen, CO2, and end-products transportation to enable hydrogen economy in Finland ➳ Venla Saarela presented the joint R&D project results of Gasgrid and Fingrid Oyj ➳ Antti Ylä-Kujala and Jani Sillman presented the perspectives to sustainability, safety, and profit sharing in green hydrogen value chains. ➳ Jari Sistonen presented reflections based on experiences in Hydrogen safety at Oy U-Cont Ltd #NordicWay #GreenHydrogen #EUGreenDeal