Demola is an award-winning ecosystem that brings together students, companies, and universities to work on innovation projects. It operates centers in Tampere, Vilnius, and Budapest that bring multidisciplinary student teams together with corporate partners to develop demos for new products and services over 4 months. Companies benefit from accessing young talent and boosting their R&D process, while students gain real-world experience working with industry on inspiring challenges. Demola has facilitated over 200 projects with positive outcomes for both students and company partners.
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1. Winner 2010 The Best Summer
Regional innovation award Job in Finland 2011
Demola is an award-winning*
ecosystem of creative action
for students, companies and universities.
Ville Kairamo
Head of Demola Network and Protomo Finland
ville.kairamo@hermia.fi
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2. International Demola Network
Ville Kairamo Jukka Matikainen
Head of Demola Demola Network
Network
Bernard Garvey Jarmo Tuominiemi
Demola Tampere Demola Tampere
Antti Salomaa Ida Rimpiläinen
Demola Tampere Demola Tampere
Tamas Pallos László Bacsa
Demola Tampere Demola Budapest
Donát Dékány László Farkas
Demola Budapest Demola Budapest
Andrius Pleckaitis Edgaras Kriukonis
Demola Vilnius Demola Vilnius
Demola centres are already operating in
Tampere, Vilnius and Budapest.
Sarunas Bagdonas Demola is initiated and network
Demola Vilnius coordinated by New Factory International Ltd.
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5. Tampere landscape and our
starting point in 2008
World class know-how
• Strong international companies
• Three big universities and science-
driven R&D activities
38 000 students in Tampere
• Big potential: mix of technology, art,
media, social & business persons
working together
Need for new culture,
competences and processes
that boost innovation activity
• From science-driven R&D to demo-
driven innovation!
• Out from silos!
• Agile and multidisciplinary
collaboration!
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7. This is how
Demola
works
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8. Shared IPR framework
The key enabler for open innovation
Community Demola Team agreement
code of conduct
Demola Project agreement
Unified contract framework
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9. Step 1
Making a Demo with you in 4 months
Demola facilitator connects the
talented and motivated people
into a multidisciplinary team.
STUDENT
TEAM
+
YOUR YOUR 4 months DEMO
CASE CASE
Team works under facilitator
Your input: supervision in Demola
1. Set a challenge premises.
2. Sign Demola project contract
3. Your feedback and meetings with the team Demola project is a part of
their studies.
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10. Step 1
Making a Demo with you in 4 months
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11. Step 2
You Evaluate results and decide
further development
DEMO
Are the demo & outcomes valuable ?
if NOT if YES
No pay - No IPR Pay Reward – Further development
Then students own the IPR and You can chooce shared
results created in the project! lisence or full-licence.
0€
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12. 90%
Statistics after 200 Demola projects:
Are the demos
and outcomes
valuable ?
93%
90% say YES and buy the license.
10%
Only 10% say NO and didn’t buy the license. YES NO
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13. What’s in it for the
stakeholders?
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14. Demola for students
Project team membership is based on motivation,
inspiration and skills!
Demola provides
• Collaboration and real world experience with leading
companies, start-ups and public organisations
• Inspiring atmosphere and New Factory facilities
• An opportunity to get credit points and rewards
“Demola contributes to a new culture where students
become active members and not just passive receivers”
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15. Demola for universities
Demola is a practical and international learning
environment
• Real and current topics for project courses
• Makes it possible to combine talented students from different
universities to same teams!
• 90+ % of students says that Demola project supports studies
• BSc, MSc and PhD students are co-creating together!
Enables agile collaboration between
• Degree programmes
• Competing universities and international partners
• Education, industry, SMEs and start-ups
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16. Why companies see
Demola as a valuable tool?
1 Boosting R&D process with demos
They find Demola as a way to build sustainable
2 university-business collaboration
3 They use Demola for ecosystem engagement
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4 Attracting the best young talents
18. This is why Nokia loves Demola!
In 1,5 years "What is special about
Demola is the way of doing
things: Let’s do it' attitude
without bureaucracy makes
the atmosphere fruitful."
- Jukka Saarinen, Research
Fellow at NRC
From 5 Universities and 9
18 different faculties
105 Students involved 2
demola projects
special
campaigns
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19. Ovelin Ovelin develops a game called WildChords that combines addictive
features of computer games with music exercises to get users hooked
on practicing their guitars. Together with Suuntaamo of New Factory,
Ovelin has conducted extensive user tests with very positive outcomes.
The first commercial version of WildChords will be released in autumn
2011 on iPad, followed by other platforms. Ovelin has won several prices,
among them “Best European Learning Game 2010” (LUDUS).
20. ”The most productive innovation platform in Europe”
Annually in Demola Tampere
100 projects and 400 students
35 % international 95% of students
students recommend Demola
3 universities and 12 75 % consider
faculties entrepreneurship
15 % of students are headhunted
New start-ups and co-founders
Multidisciplinary, agile, community driven,
global+local
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21. “To see others working in their project encourages me to work harder, and there
was always someone here to help when I wanted to learn something new!”
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23. To sum up
Demola is a sustainable innovation engine…
• Enables value co-creation between student teams and partners
• Place, interactive processes, tools and best practices
• Services and commonly accepted IPR framework
… that produces collaboration, inspiration and business
• Systematic innovation and entrepreneurship training for
students of 3 universities via Demola
• Companies speeding up R&D and way to create new start-ups
• Test bed for universities to learn new ways of teaching
• Concept is highly transferrable to other regions!
Systematic and efficient model for The Best Summer
Job in Finland 2011
university-business collaboration!
Winner 2010
Regional innovation award
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24. Thank You.
What’s Your first
Demola case?
www.demola.fi
www.demola.net
Ville Kairamo
ville.kairamo@hermia.fi
+358 40 5667182
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