Snapshot from today’s visit at VTT with the 90 Day Finns ✨
Key takeaways:
📈 Exponential hope. If scientists & researchers believe that there’s hope to solve today’s challenges, then I believe it as well. Jenni Santalo made me leave VTT in a better mood than I entered it.
🌱 Down to earth (maybe because it comes down to earth in the end?). Antti Vasara is president & CEO at VTT, one of the leading research organisations in Europe with 261M€ turnover and roughly 400 parent families, employing over 2k brilliant minds with 55 nationalities. He answered our questions while enjoying cinnamon buns & coffee. His motto is that he doesn’t have a motto.
💸 Lotta Partanen introduced VTT LaunchPad and their quite unique approach to support spin-off companies with great impact. One 90 Day Finn said that she can’t tell about it at home because everyone would then want to come to Finland… please, tell it at home!
☯️ Balance is key. An innovation needs both, science and business, to take flight. Himadri Majumdar, CEO and co-founder of SemiQon presented the success story of his VTT spin-off.
Kiitos to my colleague Johanna for organising this inspiring visit for the #90DayFinn program.
Back at the office we celebrated Sandeep’s (temporary 🤞) farewell with the most delicious Indian food you can find in Helsinki and looking back at 15 years of promoting the capital of the happiest country. Have a magical vuorotteluvapaa-leave.
Miracles often begin on Mondays ✨
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