  Oulutech Ltd.
Oulutech Oy, founded in 1994, is an expert company that offers services for the licensing and commercialisation of technology-based ideas and research results, development of business operations, incubator operations and corporate financing. Oulutech Oy is owned by Technopolis Oyj, Oulun Yliopiston tukisaatio (The support fund of the university of Oulu) and Sitra (The Finnish National Fund for Research and Development). According to the owners, Oulutech's operation promotes their objectives, too.
For a company either in the beginning or growing stages, Oulutech Oy offers high-quality expert help from the evaluation and development of the business idea to the company's internationalisation projects and financing.
Among Oulutech Oy's strengths is the commercialisation of technology-based ideas, innovations and research results both domestically and internationally. Oulutech Oy promotes your innovation and, if necessary, finds the best possible co-operation partners through its vast network of experts and financiers.
A partner for the promotion of innovative business and product ideas
The purpose of Oulutech is to assist people who want to promote high tech-based business, product, or service ideas. Oulutech's services are intended for both private persons and companies.
Activities - Services
Services for companny founders
When the promotion of an innovation or company idea has advanced to the stage of founding the company, partnership with Oulutech offers an excellent opportunity for your newborn company. Our services support the founding stages and the launching process of your company in a versatile way, bringing security to its early stages of operation. We have experience from dozens of projects in this field.
Refinement of the business plan
Our company development team will help you refine your business plan. We can arrange significant financing which will enable hiring outside experts and getting their insights on your operation. The financing may also cover the expenses for the working costs of the company founders. The objective is to have a feasible and credible business plan, which will attract various financiers and provide a sound basis for business operation.
Arranging the financing
Through the utilisation of our partners' financing products, we will create a financing package for the company's early stages. In order to finance the growing stage, we will prepare a company presentation for capital investors and if necessary, operate as door-openers in the direction of financiers.
Completion of expertise
Our company development team will instruct the company founders in company management and help the company proceed towards a growth track. In addition to our own organisation, we have a large outside network of experts, which we can use for your advantage. Training and development packages tailored for a newborn company can be financed with project financing, which can be arranged through us.
Services for idea owners
The purpose of Oulutech is to assist idea-owners in the promotion of their ideas. Our services are aimed for private persons and companies that have just started their operation. Our objective is to create either a financially profitable product or an operational and growing company on the basis of the original idea. The source for the idea can be a brand new invention or insight, or alternatively, strong general expertise in a particular field of technology or other industry.
We support the owner of the idea in all stages of the promotion. We have vast experience in the evaluation of hundreds of innovations since 1994. Nearly a hundred of them have advanced to the commercialisation process, and as a result, dozens of operational businesses have been founded and several licenses have been sold.
Our highly-skilled team has several decades of business experience, of which a significant number is related to international operations. We also have access to a vast network of domestic and international experts and financiers
Opening doors
In all stages regarding the promotion of your company, we will offer your newborn company access to all the services of our partner network. We will operate as door-openers, and if necessary, help you in making contacts.
Co-operating with Oulutech means that, despite being a new entrepreneur, you will never be alone. Instead, we will provide you with the strong support of our expert network in order to guarantee a profitable start for your business operation.
The commercialisation of innovations and technology transfer
Founding one's own company is not always the objective in the promotion of an idea or innovation. Instead, it may be licensing a particular form of technology, for example. Companies aim to concentrate their product development and patenting on their central area of expertise and acquire complementing technology from elsewhere. Oulutech's expertise and international network of experts and co-operation partners provide the creator of an idea with a versatile opportunity for technology transfer between domestic and international companies.
Licensing is one form of technology transfer. Usually with licensing, it is a question of an innovation in an idea or patenting stage that has already produced some business operation to such an extent that instead of founding an own company, it is more advantageous to license the innovation to an existing, operational company.
Oulutech's expertise covers the whole licensing process, and we are also capable of arranging financing if necessary.
Financing services
The financing products co-ordinated by Oulutech are intended to support the promotion of a new idea or company in the stage where the usual and most common sources of financing are not yet available. The objective of the financing is to increase the amount of financing and the idea-owner's/entrepreneur's personal commitment simultaneously with the progress of the project.
In the beginning, financing is used for the acquisition of expert clarifications and other clarifications. The financing products for later stages will bring financial resources for launching and developing the business operation.
Financing that is channelled through Oulutech improves a newborn company's chances for the utilisation of the more common financing sources.
Developmental stage |
Financing product |
Evaluation of the idea and clarification of the various commercialisation possibilities |
TULI-project financing |
The development of the business plan of a company intending to increase |
LIKSA-project financing |
Launching the business operations |
SME support (incubator support) |
Development of the business operations |
Expert financing |
Increasing the business operations |
Seed capital loan |
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