The HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Conference is the foremost event in digital health care in Europe and will be held in Finland for the first time from the 11th to the 13th of June 2019 Finnish health care companies will have a strong presence at the conference’s largest country-specific stand, the Finland Pavilion, and……

DelSiTech Ltd, a Finnish drug delivery and drug development company, today announced significant grant funding to support the development of long-acting controlled release formulations for family planning as well as for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antivirals, from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. DelSiTech is the global leader in advanced silica-based, sustained and controlled release……

Life Science Live was organised in Turku in May The event had three tracks with interesting speakers Turku Business Region is the leading city in Finnish Life Science cluster The international Life Science Live event took place at Turku Fair Center in May. The main theme was artificial intelligence in health care, drug development and……

The young adult horror series Cryptid takes place in a small Scandinavian town The series is produced by Dramacorp Ab for Viaplay The series will be filmed in the Turku region in West Finland in early Autumn 2019 Finland’s old capitol Turku is known for beautiful historic buildings and a stunning archipelago, but this autumn……

Initiated to support the growth and competitiveness of Finland’s maritime industry, Maritime Accelerator programme will be implemented this year, too Royal Caribbean and Meyer Turku have already announced their participation in this year’s programme The programme received positive feedback; it helps big, globally operating companies to find new co-operation opportunities in growth-seeking SMEs. In the……

Artificial intelligence will change the health care practices considerably over the next two decades  Experts are saying that investments should be directed at basic health care in particular The international Life Science Live event is gathering leading life science experts to Turku in May ”Artificial intelligence will radically change the health care practices over the……

Turku Centre for Biotechnology launches a new brand name Turku Bioscience Over 200 researchers work at the Centre and it gains 4–6 million in supplementary funding Turku Bioscience and its drug development technology can support the operations of the planned future drug development centre Turku Centre for Biotechnology, a joint unit of the University of……

Two game projects/companies were awarded in Finnish Game Awards Gala Awarded teams were Turku Game Lab, Humak and Rival Games The number of employees in the industry grew to 3,200 in the end of 2018 Finland’s successful game industry celebrated and rewarded their best in the Finnish Game Awards 25.4. in Helsinki. A total of eight……

Professionals in technology Fields are searched to Turku in a global Talent Call Turku campaign  Five families from different parts of the world will win a trip to Turku in August 2019 Ensuring the availability of competent labour force is essential to the growth of the companies in the Turku Region There is a severe……

CB Health Access program facilitated the entry of Health Tech companies to distant markets The results, achieved sales 2,1M€ and 10M€ investment, clearly fulfilled all stated objectives Long-term agreements signed with South Korea, USA, India and Uganda In 2016 a 3-year CB Health Access program was initiated between Estonian, Finnish, Latvian and Swedish business development……