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Tampere is known as a city of new ideas and bold experiments, leading the way in developing open innovation platforms. Open innovation environments enable collaboration, learning, and co-creation among universities, companies, communities, and the city.
Innovation platforms operate on the basis of open collaboration, facilitated between public, private, or third-sector actors to develop new products and services. Complementary stakeholders are brought together and encouraged to collaborate.
Platforms can take various forms, such as physical spaces, online services, meeting hubs, or events that companies and organizations can utilize. They also engage new user groups, such as students, freelancers, local residents, and service users.
SIXLabs provides a platform for utilizing industrial testing and piloting environments as well as RDI infrastructures, offering companies access to cutting-edge resources for innovation and business development.
Learn more on the SIXLabs website.
Test environment for visual content creation and user experience research.
Organization: Tampere University
Type: Research, development, or learning environment
Link to Civit’s page.
The research environment offers an opportunity to utilize NanoLC-MSTOF liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.
X-Ray Microtomography lab offers 3D structural imaging and assessment of practically any materials, composites, tissues, devices, or 3D prints. The lab can offer a complete pipeline from 3D imaging, data processing, analysis, quantification, to surface and volume 3D-visualization, FEM modelling, and 3D printing.
Type: Research infrastructure
Link to X-Ray Microtomography – MicroCT.
HeAT Laboratory is an environment for the study and development of health and assistive technology and services.
Link to HeAT Laboratory.
Common training center for TUNI and Pirkanmaa Hospital District
Organization: Tampere University and Pirkanmaa Hospital District
Link to Tampere Centre for Skills Training and Simulation.
Innovation platform for development and innovation services, health care actors, and the university community.
Organization: TAMK
Link to TAMK Virtual Lab for Social and Health Care.
Finnish Clinical Biobank Tampere (FCBT) aims to develop new forms of treatment and to promote health through biomedical, clinical, and health science research.
Organization: TAYS
Type: Unit
Link to Finnish Clinical Biobank Tampere.
Regea Cell and Tissue Center is a clinical tissue bank and a GMP cell manufacturing unit. Regea is a non-profit organization operating under Tampere University.
Organization: Regea, Tampere University
Link to Regea Cell and Tissue Center.
The research infrastructure of the faculty comprises state of the art facilities in the field of biomedical sciences, biomedical technology and engineering.
Organization: Tampere University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology
Link to Tampere University MET Core-facilities and services.
Test environment for product development and user testing in sports and well-being.
Organization: Varala Sports Institute
Link to Varala Sports Institute.
Visaxion is a versatile functional vision testing and innovation environment developed specifically for operators in the field of eye and vision business.
Link to Visaxion.
Tampere Testbed Hervanta offers companies, device and sensor manufacturers, automotive industry players, and researchers a unique opportunity to test and develop autonomous mobility solutions in a vibrant urban environment, surrounded by a university campus and numerous technology companies.
Learn more on the Tampere Testbed Hervanta website.
A globally unique Lyyli Living Lab environment for urban mobility has been established in Tampere. Its purpose is to create a development, experimentation, testing, and marketing environment with supporting services. The environment enables the development of smart urban mobility solutions and the acquisition of references in a real operational setting: in the first-of-its-kind Lyyli tram and the tram model, the mock-up.
Learn more on the Lyyli Living Lab website.
The ECO3 business area is a collaborative hub for developing bio and circular economy business and innovations on an industrial scale. This nationally significant center of expertise also serves as a demonstration and piloting environment.
Learn more on the ECO3 website.
The Taraste Circular Economy Area in Kangasala provides a modern solution for the environmental management needs of the growing Pirkanmaa region. The area accommodates the reception, storage, and processing of various materials, while circular economy companies operating there leverage mutual collaboration, creating economic and operational synergies.
Learn more on the Taraste Circular Economy Area website.
Hiedanranta serves as a development platform for experiments and projects promoting smart, sustainable, and circular economy solutions.
Learn more on the Hiedanranta website.
LEMENE is a self-sufficient energy system completed in 2019 in Marjamäki, Lempäälä. The project was one of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment’s flagship initiatives for new technology and a unique concept in Finland. LEMENE is a system utilizing renewable energy sources, operating independently.
Learn more on the LEMENE website.