Nokia Innovation Center Tampere

About us

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, initially and among other topics, on research in

• 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).

Please see more details in the section Research below.

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)

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

Research contacts:

Please contact respective project managers or Jukka Saarinen.

Press contacts:

Nokia

Communications, Corporate Development Office
Tel. +358 7180 71800
E-mail: cdo.communications@nokia.com

Tampere University of Technology

Communications and Media Relations
Tel. +358 3 3115 5550
www.tut.fi

Links and resources

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

Related websites

MUPE
Open innovation at Nokia
NRC Cambridge (MIT collaboration)