After almost ten years of existence Demos Helsinki takes a remarkable step forward: we launch Demos Effect to help businesses to reach for markets growing from wicked opportunities. “Wicked opportunities” arise from “wicked problems”, a category of problems like the climate change, natural resources scarcity, obesity and other lifestyle diseases, that differ from…
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Demos Helsinki at Slush 2014: Impact through wicked opportunities
November 17, 2014
Startup scene is getting more diverse – it’s no longer only about games and mobile apps. Themes like health, education and resource smart living offer practically an endless demand for solutions. This is visible also at Slush which has a big focus on impact this year. Demos Helsinki is going to Slush….
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Apply for Peloton Smart Retro Acceleration Program by 30 October!
October 10, 2014
Are you an entrepreneur with a smart product or a service for urban dwellers? Are you looking for a fast way to find partners and users, test and hit the market? Peloton Smart Retro Acceleration Program offers a highway access for Nordic startups and entrepreneurs to partnerships, mentors, user communities and…
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Smartups lead the new wave of startup companies
August 14, 2014
As natural resources become scarcer, giant companies of the old guard are in trouble. At Flow Talks Even Heggernes from Airbnb, Minister of the Environment Ville Niinistö, Marko Ahtisaari from MIT Media Lab, and Tero Ojanperä from Vision+ shed light on how resource scarcity next turns to transform consumer markets….
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Demos Helsinki, Slush and Flow Festival bring Flow Talks to Suvilahti on Friday the 8th of August. Sign up now – only a few spaces left!
August 7, 2014
Flow Festival expands as Demos Helsinki together with Slush and Flow bring the sharpest knives from the world of startups, smart cities and social movements to Flow Talks in Suvilahti on the 8th of August. Flow Talks Smartup Summit continues a series of talks on sustainable growth organised by Demos…
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Demos Helsinki launches Demos Effect
June 30, 2014
After almost ten years of existence Demos Helsinki takes a remarkable step forward: we launch Demos Effect to help businesses to reach for markets growing from wicked opportunities. “Wicked opportunities” arise from “wicked problems”, a category of problems like the climate change, natural resources scarcity, obesity and other lifestyle diseases, that differ from…
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Smart Retro Meetup in Stockholm
May 19, 2014
The Nordic think tank Demos Helsinki is hosting the Smart Retro Meetup in Stockholm to celebrate sustainable service infrastructure. We’ll meet and connect with leaders and innovators from the built sector and beyond.
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Demos Helsinki @SXSW
March 7, 2014
The leading European innovation think tank Demos Helsinki is at South by Southwest* (SXSW) this weekend looking for friends. Demos Helsinki operates in Finland and Sweden and is known for its ability to turn future trends and innovations that drive social change. Both a think tank and an incubator for…
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Peloton Club Brings Resource Smart Startups to Slush
November 12, 2013
The Demos Helsinki –led startup incubator Peloton Club will be present at Slush, the biggest startup event in Northern Europe, on the 13th-14th of November at the Helsinki Cable Factory. Along with Peloton Club, Slush draws a dozen young startups that are to introduce themselves on Thursday the 14th in…
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Demos Helsinki presentation awarded best in its category at World Resource Forum
October 10, 2013
The presentation by the think tank Demos Helsinki was chosen best in the category of Sustainable Business and Industry at the World Resource Forum held in Davos. The winning presentation Gatekeepers of Sustainable Innovation introduces the Peloton programme, where new products and services to support energy smart consumption choices have…
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Peloton – The Makers of New Economy
October 6, 2013
Peloton (in Finnish “fearless”) supports different industries and organisations in developing products, services and social innovations to help us make resource smart low CO2 choices and to generate new profitable business opportunities for organisations. You can book a Peloton workshop for your organisation or region, help us organise a Peloton…
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HOAS Laboratory
October 1, 2013
The services of housing are underdeveloped, if not non-existent. Yet housing makes up the largest share of both our ecological footprint and our national income. This was the starting point of our joint project with the biggest constructor of the Helsinki area, Foundation for Student Housing in the Helsinki Region…
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Design Round Table 2012
November 5, 2012
Kesäkuussa 2012 Ajatushautomo Demos Helsinki ja valtion muotoilutoimikunta kokosivat 120 pohjoismaista muotoilun asiantuntijaa piirtämään päiväksi kuvaa muotoilun suunnasta. Tähän muotoilupääkaupunkivuoden Design Round Table – tapahtumaan osallistuneet muotoiluammattilaiset visioivat, miltä hyvin muotoiltu Suomi näyttää vuonna 2030 ja pohtivat, mitä toimenpiteitä tarvitaan tänään, jotta parempi tulevaisuus toteutuu. Tuloksena syntyneeseen julkaisuun “Muotoiltu huominen – suomalaisen…
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