Nokia Innovation Center Tampere is an open innovation network, where information flows freely between collaborators and joint teams regularly work together to achieve world-class scientific research results. The first and central collaborator in the center is Tampere University of Technology (TUT). The center was officially opened in September 2007, and about 80 researchers are currently involved in its activities.

Part of the research will be funded by Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology. It is envisaged that other research institutions, as well as complementary commercial companies, in the Tampere area may eventually also participate in the work of the center. Nokia Innovation Center has its facilities in the Hermia Science Park, Tampere, Finland, within walking distance from both Nokia Research Center and Tampere University of Technology. Employees work for their respective organizations.

Nokia Innovation Center Tampere focuses on

• Content and media ecosystems (future digital media; maintaining and sharing personal content between various devices)
• Smart UI solutions (camera-end image processing; visual user interfaces for the next generation experience)
• Printed electronics (miniaturization and electronics integration)
• Modular system architectures (advanced computer architectures and devices)

Theme talks

Immersive mathematics education using a mobile phone by Keith Devlin November 20 at 14:00 Nokia Innovation Center, Hermia 11 (Hermiankatu 1, Tampere) Demola: Open innovation benefits for industry and students by Pia Berg and Ville Kairamo (Demola) and Jukka Saarinen (NRC) November 27 at 14:00 Nokia Innovation Center, Hermia 11 (Hermiankatu 1, Tampere) 10 views to context awareness by Dr. Pertti Huuskonen (NRC) December 4 at 14:00 Nokia Innovation Center, Hermia 11 (Hermiankatu 1, Tampere)

Current collaborators

Research

Nokia Innovation Center Tampere currently has seven research areas. Below you can find a list of projects and their contact persons. More projects will be added soon.

Future radio systems and their challengers

dCOM - Seamless direct radio connection (Jouni Kössi)
WIBCO - Wireless broadband communications (Kari Kalliojärvi)

Smart user interface solutions

Avipa2 - Image and video processing (Jani Lainema)
Mobile Immersion - 3D audio, 3D displays, novel UIs (Martin Schrader)

Content and media ecosystems

RealityBytes - Personal content and media; context and metadata sharing ecosystem (Kari Laurila)
Farms - Visual media systems; mobile TV and conferencing (Miska Hannuksela)
RTT - SVC based subjective quality improvements over H.264/AVC in DVB-H (Miska Hannuksela)

Mobile community services

Cosmos - Community supported collaborative mobile services (Jari Tuhkanen)
MoMUPE - Small community services (Juha Kaario)
COBI - Community behavior models in user-content interaction (Jaakko Lehikoinen)

Printed electronics

MIPE - Printed electronics and applications (Risto Rönkkä)

Modular system architectures

MAFS - Modular computing architectures (Petri Liuha)
Martes ITEA project (Petri Liuha)

New technology openings

No projects at this point (Jukka Saarinen)

Links and resources

• Tampere University of Technology
• City of Tampere
• Tekes
• Nokia Research Center Tampere
• Hermia Science Park
• MUPE

Contact information

Visitor address
Hermiankatu 1 (Hermia 11), Tampere, Finland

General mail
Nokia Innovation Center / Jukka Saarinen, P.O. Box 1000, FIN-33721 Tampere, Finland