Dec 23, 2018
Season's greetings, Happy Holidays
On behalf of SPARK Finland management team, SPARKees, and our mentors, we want to thank all of our friends, partners and contributors for a fantastic year 2018! We wish you…
Oct 23, 2018
SCellex, Päivi Saavalainen, Harri Sihto, BIO SPARK Showcase, Bio Investor Forum, SPARK at Stanford, Sartar Therapeutics, SCELLOMICS
On October 16-18 two Finnish SPARKees – Sartar Therapeutics and SCellomics (a newly established IP company SCellex) – participated in BIO SPARK Showcase and BIO Investor Forum 2018 events in San Francisco…
Sep 18, 2018
Teemu Heinonen, Waltteri Sorvisto, health tech, life science, report, industry, business schools, SPARK Finland, SPARK Global
During the summer 2018 SPARK Finland conducted a review on the discussions and ecosystems of Finnish health tech and life science development and how it is associated with business schools. Project…
Sep 11, 2018
Germany, Norway, roundtable, health tech, life science, MEAE, FVCA, Israel, EIB, SPARK Finland, Australia
SPARK program has been proven to be once again a platform for building strategic level collaboration in many levels. On September 6-7 SPARK Finland co-hosted with the Ministry of Economic…
Jul 3, 2018
Åbo Akademi University, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Turku University Hospital/The Hospital District of Southwest Finland, Health Campus Turku, SPARK Finland, University of Turku
Many believe that summer time in Finland is just for vacation. But it is not in SPARK. SPARK Finland lives active times not only through our projects and teams, but…
Jun 15, 2018
Maculaser, FastEV, TUTL, Newcast, Team Parikka, Business Finland, Biomarkkerit
SPARK Finland has been active in supporting SPARKees both in increasing the maturity of their solutions and also becoming fundable projects and companies. Support is provided by the community of…
Jun 13, 2018
Waltteri Sorvisto, trainees, Teemu Heinonen
SPARK Finland has two trainees during the summer 2018. Teemu Heinonen and Waltteri Sorvisto are business school students that will be help us identify opportunities to integrate business school students…
May 27, 2018
SPARK, TUTL, call, Surgify, Business Finland
Call for TUTL funding by Business Finland (former Tekes) is now open. Business Finland will announce a bit later more detailed information on deadlines. TUTL funding is aimed at research…
Apr 6, 2018
SCELLOMICS, Parikka, Scheperjans, Maculaser, Heart4Oxygen, FastEV, iCombine, HemoCure, LASU, MOMIC
A month ago started a new patch of SPARK projects at SPARK Finland. Projects represents nicely the wide spectrum of competencies and strengths that Finland has in health tech and…
Mar 1, 2018
HiPOC, HIS, University of Helsinki, HiLIFE
The HiPOC Proof of Concept Grants may be for you if you have been in touch with Helsinki Innovation Services Ltd (HIS) or involved in matters relating to invention disclosures, patenting issues…