Aalto Inventors
The first step on your innovation journey: Field-specific innovation training designed for researchers to discover the impact potential of your work and build relevant networks.
Innovation School
Your research deserves to change the world.
Aalto Innovation School launches to strengthen the pathway from research findings to business for doctoral researchers and postdocs.
Finland faces an urgent innovation challenge. While universities produce world-class research and breakthrough technologies, many discoveries never leave the lab. But they have the potential to change the world.
Aalto Innovation School accelerates the journey from research to scalable, impact-driven deep-tech ventures. Innovation School provides a clear, supported pathway for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to explore real-world problems, advance innovation readiness, and prepare for venture creation. We want to equip Aalto researchers with the tools and mindset to embark on their innovation journey.
Through programs like Aalto Inventors and Innovation Postdoc, with more to be launched, researchers move step-by-step from discovery to validation and towards spinout formation. By combining innovation training, mentoring, and streamlined commercialization support, Innovation School strengthens Aalto's research-to-business pipeline and builds the next generation of deep-tech founders.
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Innovation Postdoc
A fully funded, 12 month career track to turn your doctoral discoveries into deep-tech startups.
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Aalto Founder School helps students develop the mindset and skills to create something new. Open to all Aalto students, it offers multiple ways to explore entrepreneurship through Founder Talks, the Founder Minor, and Founder Sprint.
Register now for Inventors in AI, biotechnology or the new multidisciplinary cohort
Three innovation trainings are coming up this fall and registration is now open for all Aalto researchers!
Paula Nybergh Donates to innovation activities of Aalto's Bioinnovation Center
Our alumna, Paula Nybergh, with a Licentiate of Science (Technology) and an honorary Doctor of Science (Technology), has made a significant donation to support the innovation activities of the Bioinnovation Center.
Aalto Inventors is launching six new cohorts next academic year
Choose a field-specific cohort in AI, biotechnology, water management, minerals, or medtech — or join a multidisciplinary track open to researchers from any discipline.Get in touch
