1) Living labs provide meeting places for research, development, and innovation where companies, researchers, specialists, teachers, students, and product users collaborate. 2) Demola is an innovation platform that combines student ideas with needs and support from project partners and customers, turning ideas into product and service demos. 3) Benefits of Demola include real market potential for projects, valuable experience for students, opportunity for students to start their own businesses, and license agreements or partnerships between students and project partners.

1. Living Labs Added Value: from Outputs to
Outcomes
Customer Relationship DirectorEsa Ala-Uotila
Tampere University of Applied Sciences, New
Factory / Suuntaamo Living Lab, Tampere,
Finland
User-driven Open Innovation ecosystems
go really local… across borders
May 23th, 2012
www.tamk.fi

2. Target Level for Tampere Innovation Culture

3. ”Collision system”
- Meeting places
- research, development and innovation environments (to be used also
as learning environments for students)
- need further development and internalization (f. ex. New Factory
including Demola and Suuntaamo, Healthy Sleep Facilities etc.)
- companies, researchers, specialists, consultants, teachers,
students and especially product and service users are all involved
- The Living Lab Network of Universities of Applied Sciences
“Neloskierre”, ENoLL
- domestic and foreign partnership networks to create demand
and user driven innovations and localize products and
services from Tampere Region SMEs to different market areas
and vice versa

4. R&D&I environments
PractiCo®
Healthy Sleep Facilities

5. Demola as Innovation Platform Engine
Combines fresh ideas of students with needs and support
from project partners and customers
• Focuses on creative action, does not produce papers!
• Turns needs, ideas and knowledge into demos of
products and services
• Creates new jobs and business
Operated by Hermia Ltd.

6. Initial concepts and guidance
come from project partners
• Real market potential
• Interesting project topics and valuable experience
Operated by Hermia Ltd.

7. Students own the intellectual
property and results created in the
project!
• Possibility to start own business based on IPR created
in demo project
Operated by Hermia Ltd.

8. Benefit for partners and teams!
• Project partner can buy a license to project results or
become a shareholder
Operated by Hermia Ltd.

9. Some outcomes (February 2012)
• Company projects done 170
• Students involved 940 (1/3 international students)
• Already employed students 80
• Results licensed 93%
• Payments from companies to student groups 610.000
• Start-ups 18
Operated by Hermia Ltd.

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12. Contact information:
Mr. Esa Ala-Uotila,
Customer Relationship Director,
R&D and Education Services
esa.ala-uotila@tamk.fi
tel. +358 50 568 5352
www.tamk.fi