Picture: Antti Kokkola
Smart Kalasatama drives innovation and new experiments by bringing together different kinds of actors operating and living in the area.
The Smart Kalasatama Innovators’ Club is a collaboration network for everyone involved in developing the district.
The club, meeting four times a year, helps participants to regularly share news and get information about upcoming events and future projects. Through networking and sharing, the goal is also to speed up innovation by finding new matches for collaboration and projects.
It brings together start-up’s, SMEs, NGO’s, large companies, researchers, as well as city officials and resident innovators.
The Innovators’ Club represents a new kind of district-based co-operation. In Smart Kalasatama, the entire district forms a test environment for new services. A well functioning collaboration network provides a natural way to introduce new experiments to the area.