TAMPERE, Finland – One of Nokia Research Centre’s open innovation initiatives, the Demola Facility picked up the Activator of the Year award from the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications. The award recognizes the work the facility does to enable open innovation in the region. Co-founded by Nokia Research Centre, the Demola Facility is also a major collaborator and during the first five months of its existence the Demola centre and the NRC worked on seven open innovation projects.
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ESPOO, Finland – Opening the second annual ‘The Way We Live Next’ conference at Nokia HQ in Espoo, chief technology officer Bob Iannucci gives an insight into ‘Agenda 2015′ – what Nokia thinks the world will be like seven years from now.
Iannucci talks about the eight areas of focus for research in Agenda 2015 and how the research is actually being carried out.
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ESPOO, Finland – Last October myself and a couple of coach loads of international journalists made our way up to Oulu in northern Finland. About 100km south of the Arctic circle, I thought it an odd place for a media event, until we found out what The Way We Live Next was all about. In short, it’s like a window on Nokia Research Centre (NRC), where the juicy future projects being worked on are rolled out for the
selected media to poke, prod and write about.
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PALO ALTO, USA - The metamorphosis of a phone from conception to in your pocket can be freakishly fast. So one of the most crucial times in a handset’s evolution is early on in the prototype phase, where there’s the most opportunity to hone designs.
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CAMBRIDGE, England – Researchers at the University of Cambridge Nanoscience Centre have been working with the Nokia Research Centre on a form of ’stretchable electronic skin’ which could enable a new breed of multi-plane, multi-touch interfaces and, potentially, prosthetic skin.
According to the Economist however, the potential doesn’t stop there.
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