RISICO – Kymenlaakso’s innovation ecosystems as platforms for new business creation

project goals

• Creating new business opportunities in the Kymenlaakso region
• Finding new markets
• Innovating new products
• Creating spinoffs
• Establishing startups
• Adding startup-companies and spinoffs to relevant networks

project implementation

In the RISICO project students and experts from many different fields come together to solve problems from companies and industries using innovation ecosystems. These innovation ecosystems offer the teams a platform to use, the tools and the process to aid them towards their solution to the problem at hand. The innovation ecosystems also support the ideation phase, building the solution, testing it and the financing.

actions

• Hackathon events 4 times a year for innovating and finding solutions
• Around 15 product development projects with businesses and students from hackathons and assignments
• About 70% of the product development projects lead to piloting programs for new products or services
• 4-5 products or services a year go onto financing and product or service launch