Our services
Our services
Innovation Services (IS) serves widely researchers and Aalto community in developing inventions and in implementing commercialisation activities. IS manages intellectual property (IP) protection in collaboration with the researchers and executes technology transfers with versatile industrial companies – from startups to international corporations.
From Ideas To Impact®
Aalto University has an internationally unique innovation ecosystem that offers a wide range of services to researchers and research groups. From Ideas To Impact® seeks the best possible commercialisation paths for research inventions.
Key actions of Innovation Services
Evaluation and coaching
- Market analysis
- Innovation potential
- Team and partnering
IP protection and management
- IP strategy
- Value creation
- Concept development
IP commercialisation
- Financial resources
- Go-to-market strategy
- Technology transfer
Collaboration of Aalto Startup Center and Innovation Services
Aalto University has an internationally unique innovation ecosystem which offers many possibilities for developing successful innovation and robust startups. Aalto Startup Center and Innovation Services together provide Aalto-based startups and research teams services ranging from commercialisation of research ideas to comprehensive business accelerator programmes. The research teams with the highest potential have the opportunity to participate in the Aalto Startup Center and benefit from their versatile array of entrepreneurship services.
Pre-incubator programme
R2B, or the Research to Business pre-incubator programme, is open year-round to original innovations and inventions based on research at Aalto University. The programme is especially for projects that are at the idea stage and that focus on technological research. Once these projects have incorporated, Aalto Startup Center can offer them its Business Generator accelerator programme.
Aalto Startup Center
Aalto Startup Center is a hybrid accelerator offering its own incubator and accelerator services, as well as several partnership programmes. Its focus is on sustainable research-based and innovative deep-tech startups.
Aalto innovation ecosystem
Aalto University has an internationally unique innovation ecosystem that offers a wide range of services to researchers and research groups. From Ideas To Impact® seeks the best possible commercialisation paths for research inventions.
A Grid
A Grid is the stable for future unicorns located right in the heart of Aalto University Campus.
Aalto’s aim in the IP commercialisation is to maximize the societal impact of research.
We are constantly looking for talent and enthusiastic people to join commercialising our innovation projects or mentoring the project teams.
The purpose of the survey is to map the innovation potential in Aalto University in relation to both the researchers' interest to commercialize/productize their research results and the possibilities for utilization of research results. The survey is organized by Aalto University Innovation Services.
Guidelines and policies for innovation, intellectual property and commercialization in Aalto University.
Here you can find the innovation projects.
We proudly present here the startups from Aalto University.