Henriette Weber

This was one of the highlights for me personally of the finnfacts tour: to find out that Finland had a innovation “framework” for students – such as Demola.

Demola present themselves on their website as:

- An open innovation environment for the creation of the next generation of digital services, products and social practices.

- An opportunity for students to contribute real-life innovations with end-users and globally connected organisations

- An opportunity for organizations to run agile development projects.

But to me it was such an experience to hear about a couple of really cool projects that I will also write more on this blog, projects such as illtags.com that was facilitated by Demola and has used their network to make their startup grow, ideas that might have had a smaller change to grow if not supported by Demola.

I really went home with an idea that I should contact different instances to hear if anything like this exists in Denmark, and if not we need to fund it to be able to grow our startup scene.

Here’s an overview on how Demola works:

more of this guys, please =)