Nokia's decline has not hit Finnish it business enthusiasm in the ascendant

A junior student at the Sibelius Conservatory in Finland has developed a music-sharing software that allows users to customize their favorite music and share it with friends wherever he is, using Facebook, Google, itunes or other music services. She believes the software could be sold to many large companies, such as Warner and GOOGLE, in the future.

Tim, the CEO of the famous Finnish gaming company "the Harbour Hotel", is now interested in a revolution in call mode, and its Sunduka company has developed a product called Ringi, which calls for a simple call for emotional communication and a marketing platform for the enterprise. "There are 40 billion calls worldwide every day, a market that can reach € billions of in the future." Tim claims that Ringi is going to be a phone version of Facebook.

Micke, whose hair has been white, created Kiosked after selling his company to Oracle, and he and his team have developed a technology that automatically matches the content of goods and media for three years, making it instantly available to buy anything that is seen online. "Any electronic content can be a shop. Micke said Rovio's boss was also bullish and invested in kiosked.

In the November, Helsinki has already entered the cold winter, but as reporters see, the Finnish IT industry entrepreneurial enthusiasm in the ascendant. The fear that Nokia's decline will hit the Finnish IT industry is worrying that Finns are already quietly searching for new seeds in the already-ripe innovation soil.

"Finland has never lacked innovation. Ilkka, the CEO of Supercell, the fastest growing gaming company in Finland, joked: "Because the winters here are cold and long." "He is proud to think that Finland is redefining itself into the 2.0 era."

"Hatch" Finland

Have a good idea but penniless, how to start a business? Finnish entrepreneurs never worry.

The start-up garage of the Helsinki-Alto University is bright and comfortable and is a free office for many start-ups. "Just say hello to me." Staff Natalie Gaudet told reporters.

The garage is also home to Starup Sauna, a incubator that specializes in supporting start-ups and training entrepreneurs. In the three years since its inception, Starup Sauna has applied annually to open projects worldwide, and selected entrepreneurs will be invited to the garage for short-term training.

A huge "angry bird" sits on the corner of the second floor of the garage, Natalie told reporters: Rovio's CEO is the coach here. In fact, the CEO of a well-known company such as Ilkka is the coach of Starup sauna, Tim or his founding member.

Hannah emerged from 300 projects this year, and after entering Starup sauna, she received a five-week intensive training. Hannah, without any technical background, received coaching from a number of coaches, including the Nokia Music department. They helped Hannah demonstrate technology and design business models together. Hannah has developed a beta version that invites some musicians to try out and listen to their comments.

Chinese entrepreneurs Cheixin equally fortunate. Last year Starup sauna selected two teams in Shanghai, one of them. Cheixin's entrepreneurial direction is to develop some educational mobile games, but not a formed product. After coming to Starup sauna, Cheixin and his team received a six-week training session.

"There are good connections and good coaches. Cheixin said, ROVIO, supercell designers are here regulars, Nokia WP product leader Mika is also Starup sauna coach. "They'll talk to you about what's going to happen in the next five years, which is very important for us to make decisions." Cheixin says that every decision of a start-up company is a life-and-death decision.

During the training, Cheixin and the domestic team developed a language learning mobile phone game, into the Nokia and Microsoft cooperation app Campus. APP Campus provides 50,000 euros of funding for Cheixin, only if the product is exclusive for 6 months by WP platform.

Interviewed by reporters, is Cheixin in Starup sauna last week, he regrets a lot. "The entrepreneurial atmosphere in Finland is very good and the whole community cares and supports startups, including big companies," he said. Cheixin said he had just gone to Nokia's headquarters a few days ago to steam the sauna at his CEO's sauna, which is unthinkable in China.

In addition to the private incubators such as Starup sauna, Tekes, part of the Finnish Ministry of Employment and Economics, is the largest incubator in Finland. Tekes has 600 million euros a year to finance research and innovation throughout Finland, including universities, institutions and businesses. According to Mari, a senior consultant at Tekes, Two-thirds is used to finance innovation in companies, and 35% of them are for start-ups. "We have invested a lot of risky projects. ”

Last September, Tekes launched a program called Tempo to support innovative companies that develop mobile applications. "The earliest time we invest in a company is to have an idea." Tuomas, the project manager, said, but the funded companies have to make testable products within six to 4-9 months.

According to reports, tempo generally provide 100,000 euros per project. "is a subsidy, not an investment. Tuomas stressed.

So far, Tempo has invested 48 projects, a total of 3.1 million euros, and kiosked is one of them. Tuomas told reporters that the fund's application time average of 33 days, "Our goal is to shorten to 20 days."

After proving that the project is workable, the start-up company can leave tempo and apply to Tekes for other project funds.

"Coach" Finland

Next to Tempo is probably the Vigo,tekes accelerator, another part of Finland's innovative ecology.