VTT’s researchers have unique, interdisciplinary expertise and excellent ideas that can be used to create new business,” says Lotta Partanen. “I am happy to start supporting researchers in the commercialisation of their best ideas with VTT LaunchPad.”
VTT LaunchPad is a deep-tech incubator combining research, technology, mentors and investors. The goal is to create businesses across the traditional sectoral boundaries, thus enabling the use of VTT’s expertise in a way that has an even greater impact on the economy and competitiveness of Finland.
VTT LaunchPad provides proper support to researchers for their business incubation processes by offering the assistance of external mentors, for example. It promotes the goals of VTT to create sustainable growth and well-being through research and technology. “I would like to warmly welcome Lotta to VTT, and I am very much looking forward to seeing what kind of ideas our researchers come up with,” says Vice President, Strategy and Business Intelligence, Katri Kallio, the executive in charge of VTT LaunchPad. “It is great that we now have a clear operating model for the creation of new business.”