Foundation for Finnish Inventions

The Foundation for Finnish Inventions screens and evaluates inventions and innovative ideas generated by private persons and start-up companies and helps to develop them into businesses. A new nationwide service brings a systematic and cohesive evaluation process to ideas. Promising ideas with growth and international business potential are speedily refined into business proposals or licensing projects together with experienced business advisors.

 

The Foundation for Finnish Inventions is based at the Innopoli Technology Centre in Otaniemi, Espoo. Customer service is complemented by innovation advisors at the regional ELY Centres and innovation managers based at universities and institutions of higher education.

The Foundation for Finnish Inventions started operations in 1971. Its predecessor was the Finnish Cultural Foundation's Invention Bureau established in 1957 thanks to a donation by Maili Autio to the Finnish Cultural Foundation.