Antti Tuomela, Aalto University

1. Students,Entrepreneurship and
Startups in Sustainable Development
at Aalto University

2. Aalto University operates in a cultural
context that has allowed strong open
innovation traditions to develop and
flourish. This includes the work and
inspiration of pioneers of IT such as
Linus Torvalds with Linux, and
Marten Mickos and Monty Widenius
with MySQL.

3. TheAaltoopeninnovationinitiative
• explore societal challenges
• examine research interests
• address corporations’ and other organisations’ needs for bottom-up projects
• create corporate projects based on new insights from research.

4. Aalto Entrepreneurship Society
Startup Sauna
Startup
Life
Aalto Center for
Entrepreneurship
Co-working
Environments
Internship
Program
Commercialization &
Business Development
OIH
Aalto Start-up
Center
Slush
University educational
programs
Corporate-driven activities
University-operated
Student-driven activities (part of
Start-up Sauna Foundation)
Student organization
Vertical
Start-up Center
Summer of
Start-ups
Acceleration
Programs
Startup
Sauna
Aalto
Ventures
Program
Executive
Education
MBA
Education
Programs
MSc Program in
Entrepreneurship
& Innovation
Vertical
Impact
Iglu
xEdu
EIT BD Support
Spurring Entrepreneurship with
range of activities

5. Research & Education
Corporate
partners
Complementary
Parties
Coaches
SBC (Small Business Center)
Training for entrepreneurs
Business development services for small
businesses
Project Services
Around 200 innovation proposals/year
-> 10-15 companies
->20-30 patent applications
Aalto Ventures Program
Problem based learning program to foster entrepreneurial
mindset and skills
Co-operation with Stanford
Startup Sauna
30-40 companies in
acceleration / year
20 million Euros
raised
30 students trained
with internships
SLUSH
Established as the
leadingStart-Up
event in Europe
Aalto
Start-up
Center
80 companies in
incubation/ 32 high
growth
AaltoES
9000 community
members
100 activists
Annually 8000
participates events
EIT Labs:
• Digital
• Climate
• RawMaterials
Partners
in Europe
Entrepreneurship ecosystem
Vertical
Independent
accelerator
focusing on
medical
technologies

6. Aaltoes (Aalto University
Entrepreneurship Society)
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9. Startup Sauna Foundation
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10. Examples of sustainability startups
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11. Examples of sustainability startups
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12. Examples of sustainability startups
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13. Examples of sustainability startups
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14. Examples of sustainability startups
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15. Green campus hackathons
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16. Green campus hackathons
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17. Appcampus
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18. Appcampus / sustainability apps
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19. R&D collaboration programmes / sustainability /
Energizing Urban Ecosystems
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20. R&D collaboration programmes / sustainability /
Energizing Urban Ecosystems
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1. Description and visualization of the processes of smart city planning and development.
2. Recognizing and understanding the roles of areas and user groups in sustainable service
production and decision-making.
3. Development of services and service architecture by service and experience design methods.
4. Recognition and creation of innovative resources and the development of methods for resource
sharing and management.
5. Analysis and development of new business logics and opportunities for value creation over the
life cycles of investments in the built environment.
6. Openness, trust and genuine co-learning in an innovation ecosystem within the on-going trans-
disciplinary program.
The EUE project has shown that in knowledge intensive sustainable ecosystems require open
innovation platforms, open data, citizen inclusion and empowerment and crowdsourcing.

21. Thematic collaboration platforms
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22. Bionova
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Research hub for bio-
economy
– Investment 55-70 M€
– New building 23.500
sqm ready 2020.
• Three large anchor
tenants:
• Facilities for other bio-
economy firms and Start-
ups.

23. Bionova
Research hub for bio-
economy
– Investment 55-70 M€
– New building 23.500
sqm ready 2020.
• Three large anchor
tenants:
• Facilities for other bio-
economy firms and Start-
ups.

24. Aalto Centre for Entrepreneurship /
sustainable research business projects
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Biodustcomb
Carbon Capture Storage

25. Small Business Centre
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Talsinki Metropolitan Incubation

26. Aalto Start-Up Centre
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27. Aalto Start-Up Centre
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Rudanko+Kankkunen Architects

28. School as a Service
• One of the public high
schools will be located in
campus 8/2016
• School as a Service
(SaaS) concept
• Half of the space
compared to a typical city
high school
– Shared use of under-
utilized research facilities
with the university
– Pedagogical co-operation

29. Case Start-up Center
• New life to an old academic
building (23 500 sqm)
– High demand for industrial
type premises from small
companies and start-ups
– Makers’ spaces to support
prototyping and piloting
• Introduction of thematic
accelerators, Aalto’s start-up
societies, supporting
services and corporations
• Modular building, emphasis
on flexibility
• Shared use of Aalto’s other
assets around campus

30. Success factors for university-
corporate co-creation:
1. A systemic approach to creating regional innovation ecosystems based on the
culture of open innovation and knowledge co-creation
2. Experts with an entrepreneurial mindset and multidisciplinary skills
3. A network of partners with diverse complementing competences
4. A tradition of public-private-people partnerships and collaboration
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