Smart Tech Hub
Smart Tech Hub is a new growth environment for ambitious technology companies in the Turku region. The innovation hub brings together companies in green transition, life sciences and other deep tech fields, alongside researchers and investors.
We offer companies a concrete environment for growth including facilities, networks and support for development, piloting and scaling.
Why to join Smart Tech Hub?
Smart Tech Hub is an active innovation and growth environment. Its location on the University of Turku campus, combined with close collaboration with higher education institutions and the Turku Startup Hub community, supports company growth in many ways:
- A faster route to market – research-based ideas are commercialised more efficiently
- A unique location – at the heart of the University of Turku campus
- Collaboration at the core – companies, researchers and investors meet in everyday interaction
- Support for growth – Business Turku helps with funding, partnerships and scaling
Smart Tech Hub also extends beyond its walls as a dynamic network.
Who is Smart Tech Hub for?
Smart Tech Hub is designed for growth-oriented technology companies developing scalable, research-based solutions.
It supports collaboration between, for example:
- technology startups and scale-ups
- established companies renewing their business through technology
- universities and research institutes
- investors, accelerators and innovation services
The hub focuses particularly on deep tech as well as digital and industrial technologies, where long-term RDI work, piloting and partnerships are essential.
From research to international growth
Smart Tech Hub helps turn research into business by connecting companies with startups and universities in one shared environment.
This is achieved by:
- connecting researchers, companies, startups and investors
- supporting the creation of spin-offs and startups from research
- enabling piloting, testing and proof-of-concept projects
- helping companies find the right partners, funding instruments and growth paths
Business Turku acts as an active ecosystem coordinator, guiding companies to the right services at different stages of growth.
Find the right space for your company at Smart Tech Hub
Office spaces
Flexible office spaces for companies in the heart of the university campus.
Laboratories
Fully equipped RDI facilities for life science and cleantech companies.
Pilot hall
An industrial-scale piloting environment for scaling product development.
Startup Hub community space
Turku’s launchpad for startups and scale-ups – offering growth paths, investor connections, mentoring and access to international markets.
Companies at Smart Tech Hub
Business Turku boosts sustainable growth, globally and locally.
With always cost-free services, we help local growth-oriented companies expand and develop their business, and discover financing opportunities and business partners. We help companies internationalise their businesses as well.
If you’re interested in the Turku region, we can help you settle in.
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A unique location at the heart of the University of Turku campus
Smart Tech Hub is located on the University of Turku campus, in the Axelia building at Piispankatu 8, 20500 Turku, Finland.
The same building also houses Turku Startup Hub and Yrkeshögskolan Novia.
A proven path from innovation to global scale
Innovation hubs like Smart Tech Hub create economic growth across Finland by bringing together research, ambitious startups and scale-ready companies.
By accelerating commercialisation and supporting collaboration in high-tech and research‑driven fields, these environments help ideas turn into international business, exports and future jobs faster.
This approach has already been proven in the Turku region, where Smart Chemistry Park in Raisio has enabled startups to grow from small laboratory settings into internationally scaling companies.
How could your company grow at Smart Tech Hub?
Are you looking for new production, laboratory or office facilities or solutions to challenges in the circular or bioeconomy? Get in touch, and we’ll be happy to explore the opportunities Smart Tech Hub offers your company.
