2. Nokia Research Center
A Global Network with Local Activities
• Global research facilities
• Global spread of research teams across ten locations
• Part of Nokia’s Corporate Tampere, Finland
Technology Office (CTO)
3. Open Innovation
Tampere University of
Applied Sciences (TAMK)
Engaging the World’s Leading Institutions
• Access and drive global
intellectual vision and
insight
• Form strategic
collaborations with world-
leading institutions to
multiply our efforts
• Build global test beds to
learn from broader
audiences
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7. Concepts from Nokia = seeds for demos
• Play a game hands-free - A thought- controlled UI
• New ways for mobile video recording, editing and event casting
• A new, digital dimension to Guided Tours for tourists
• Get a mobile connection to your virtual community
• Machinima – storytelling in mixed reality game, theatre, movie
• 3D landscape as a mobile phone UI
• Gesture- controlled 3D characters in a computer game
• ……
8. Results 2009 – 2011
• 900+ students
• 30+ % international students
• 72 % consider seriously to become an entrepreneur
• 180+ projects
• 96 % of completed projects licensed by project partners
• 10+ % of students are headhunted
• New start-ups, Protomo teams and co-founders
• 450 000 € rewards to students
• Check experiences from Demola projects on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tX888Qnb2s
Operated by Hermia Ltd.
9. The New Factory in Tampere =
Demo & Test Factory for Nokia and
other companies
INNOVATION PRODUCTION
ENGINES:
• Demola = Demos
• Protomo = Spin Offs
• Suuntaamo = Test and
Living Lab
VERY UNIQUE SET-UP IN FINLAND and WORLD
11. Nokia Innovation Center: Science
Activities in Tampere
•Science driven activities
• From successful co-creation to truly open innovation
• Nokia + universities = local innovator network
• Joint projects, project selection and steering groups
• Public funding by Tekes and EU
• Contract with Local Universities (TUT, UTA, TAMK)
• 16 professors and ~40 PhD researchers
• Nokia offering premises for collaborative meetings
• Topics include e.g. advanced video and image processing, mobile
mixed reality, new audio solutions, …
• Nokia IC Theme Talk presentation & discussion events
12. Ingredients
• With Tampere University of Technology
(TUT)
• ~ 80 persons, mainly PhD students
• Officially opened in September 2007
• Premises for teamwork in Hermia 11
• Within walking distance
15. Publications
Some recent books published with contributions from Nokia Research Center researchers
Technology Insight Series papers and Open Threads newsletters can be downloaded from research.nokia.com
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19. Mobile Radar
A Phone’s Radio Acting as Radar
• Electromagnetic waves emitted
reflect off and through objects,
and are read by the phone
• Potential applications range
widely:
• Gesture control systems
• Speed measurements
• Area mapping
• Density assessment
• Low-light imaging radar
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20. Morph
A Real Vision of the Deep Future
• Result of an invitation from MoMA in New
York
• Product of nanoscience collaboration
between NRC and University of Cambridge, UK
• A highly personal concept device based upon
sensors, services, customizability
• Based upon actual work going on in our labs
• Captured the global imagination and hunger
for daring visions
• Millions of views on YouTube
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22. Culture for co-
creativity
• Events
• Open innovation
symposium
• Seminar Series
• Talks
• Demo Days
• Lunchlets
• Future Internet Pizza
• Testbed Trials
• Demo Creation
• Open Call for Proposals
23. Website (research.nokia.com)
Focus areas and research projects Researchers provide bios and
are described contact information
The website features news, recent publications and industry
events on
the homepage
Research locations are provided with links Open Innovation partners are called out
to research areas
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25. Innovation ecosystem (applied from R. Bendis 2012)
INPUT OUTPUT
Knowledge
creation
Education / Human resources Jobs
Human networks
Wealth creation
Networks of funds
Commercialization
Regional clusters
University – business collaboration New products & services
Basic Proof of Proof of
IP strategies New markets
research concept relevance
Co-creation processes
Companies
Multidicipline
research
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