Demola is an award-winning ecosystem that connects students, companies, and universities to facilitate multidisciplinary innovation projects over 4 months. It is operated by Hermia Ltd., a Finnish innovation agency. Demola provides a way for companies to boost their R&D processes, build university partnerships, engage their innovation ecosystems, and attract talented young people. Companies have found Demola projects valuable for developing prototypes, testing new concepts, and gaining experience with emerging technologies.

1. Winner 2010 The Best Summer
Regional innovation award Job in Finland 2011
Demola is an award-winning*
ecosystem of creative action
for students, companies and universities.
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2. We run Demola here in Tampere, Finland
Demola is operated by Hermia Ltd.
Hermia Ltd. is a leading Finnish innovation Demola facilitators
agency in the fields of ICT and mechanical
engineering and a major networker in the Ville Kairamo Jarmo Tuominiemi
energy industry. Head of Demola Runs Demola Academy
+358 40 5667182 +358 40 8235392
Demola @ New Factory Antti Salomaa Bernard Garvey
Runs InnoSummer Runs international
Väinö Linnan aukio 15, Tampere Finland +358 40 8235375 collaboration
+358 40 8235376
Ville Luotonen Ida Rimpiläinen
Facilitator Facilitator
+358 44 5741937 +358 40 823 5396
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3. NEED & BACKGROUND
How to innovate faster and facilitate
multidisciplinary development?
Faster, better, cheaper, new ideas,
out of the box thinking
Powerpoint  Demo  Prototype  Market entry
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4. This is how
Demola
works
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5. Making a Demo with You in 4 months
Demola facilitator connects the
talented and motivated people
into a multidisciplinary team.
STUDENT
TEAM
+
YOUR YOUR 4 months DEMO
CASE CASE
Your input:
1. Set a challenge Team works under facilitator
2. Sign Demola project contract supervision in Demola
3. Your feedback and meetings with the team premises.
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6. Demola reaches students
all year around
Demola Academy
Demola Trainee
SPRING
January - May
Demola Academy
Demola Trainee
AUTUMN
September - January
Demola Summer
Operated by Hermia Ltd. May - August

7. Demola project models
Demola Academy project
• Most active and talented students. The project is a part of team
member’s studies.
• You evaluate project results and decide further development.
Within 3 months after the project ends project partner can
license the project results (typical license fee: 4-15k€).
• Autumn 2012 projects will be published on 3rd of September
DL for project proposals is 30.8. !
Demola Trainee project
• Talents are preselected based on their performance in previous
Demola Academy projects.
• Project partner owns the results. Monthly reward is paid to
innovators.
• Team sized, workload and costs can be tailored case by case.
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8. What’s in it for the
stakeholders?
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9. Why project partners see
Demola as a valuable tool?
1 Boosting R&D process with demos
They find Demola as a way to build sustainable
2 university-business collaboration
3 They use Demola for ecosystem engagement
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4 Attracting the best young talents

10. Boosting R&D process with
demos
If You need If You Need If You Need
new ideas? something to alternatives?
show?
When You don’t
Compare technologies,
know how to solve Turn your consepts
solutions or concepts
it or You need out- or slideware into
with demos.
of-the-box concrete demos.
”Second opinion” for
solution.
inhouse development.
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11. 90%
Statistics after 200+ Demola projects:
Are the demos
and outcomes
valuable ?
93%
90% say YES and buy the license.
10%
Only 10% say NO and didn’t buy the license. YES NO
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12. Operated by Hermia Ltd.

13. This is why Nokia loves Demola!
In 1,5 years "What is special about
Demola is the way of doing
things: Let’s do it' attitude
without bureaucracy makes
the atmosphere fruitful."
- Jukka Saarinen, Research
Fellow at NRC
From 5 Universities and 9
18 105 Students involved
different faculties
2
demola projects
special
campaigns
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14. Metso is a global supplier of sustainable technology and services for mining,
construction, power generation, automation, recycling and the pulp and paper
industries. We have about 29,000 employees in more than 50 countries.
For Metso Automation, Demola
plays valuable role in R&D
In 4 months the project team delivered a functional
demo application, documentation of the concept and
a lot of information on the applied technologies.
“Demola projects are an
interesting way to test new
concepts, achieve
experiences on the
technologies and build a
demo”
- Mika Karaila
Research Program Manager
Metso Automation R&D
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15. Ovelin Ovelin develops a game called WildChords that combines addictive
features of computer games with music exercises to get users hooked
on practicing their guitars. Together with Suuntaamo of New Factory,
Ovelin has conducted extensive user tests with very positive outcomes.
The first commercial version of WildChords will be released in autumn
2011 on iPad, followed by other platforms. Ovelin has won several prices,
among them “Best European Learning Game 2010” (LUDUS).

16. ”The most productive innovation platform in Europe”
Annually in Demola Tampere
100 projects and 400 students
35 % international 95% of students
students recommend Demola
3 universities and 12 75 % consider
faculties entrepreneurship
15 % of students are headhunted
New start-ups and co-founders
Multidisciplinary, agile, community driven,
global+local
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17. “To see others working in their project encourages me to work harder, and there
was always someone here to help when I wanted to learn something new!”
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18. How to start co-operation with
Demola?
It’s easy:
Let’s find the case
After Your very first project
Evaluate which roles are suitable for
Your business
Demola Demola as a Demola as an Demola as a
as a R&D platform university ecosystem recruiting
booster collaboration engager channel
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19. Thank You.
Want to join Demola
community?
www.demola.fi
Jarmo Tuominiemi
jarmo.tuominiemi@hermia.fi
+358 40 8235392
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