Across the Nordic region, tourism strategies are filled with confident language about “innovation,” “transformation,” and “future‑proofing.” Yet when one examines the concrete outputs...
In 2025, six VTT-originating startups secured a combined €445 million in equity funding. Notably, each of these funding rounds exceeded €10 million. The Finnish startup sector has grown to over...
Finland is entering a period where demographic pressures and labour shortages are converging into a structural challenge. Economists, research institutions, and business organisations have...
A forumNordic investigation into the innovations, fractures and emerging governance experiments shaping the future of water in the North In March 2026, Swedish hydrologist Kenneth M Persson issued...
On a cold morning in Espoo, a story that began in the 1960s with beakers of brownish pulp-mill liquor has reawakened as a thesis for the future of food. Engineers at a Finnish forest-industry lab...
There’s a particular Davos light, the kind that falls coldly on glass and snow, making even the most utopian talk feel provisional. In that light, Yuval Noah Harari said what many had been...
🇫🇮 Finland 1. 🇫🇮 Lignin‑based battery anode breakthrough Stora Enso announces progress on industrializing lignin‑based carbon anodes for batteries, using Nordic...
On 1 October 2025, Norway executed one of the most ambitious research‑infrastructure transformations in Europe: the launch of the Nasjonalt vitenarkiv (NVA), its new unified national repository...
On certain Arctic mornings, the sky looks hollow, as if cold itself has a colour. In places like Nuuk or Ísafjörður, the air carries a taut stillness that forewarns a day when technology becomes...
Far above the Arctic Circle, in places few people ever visit, lie some of the world’s northernmost peatlands, vast, water‑logged carbon stores built slowly over millennia. They look simple:...
VTT’s current portfolio showcases a strong push toward advanced materials, clean energy systems, circularity, and next‑generation food technologies. Dispelix’s AR waveguide...
On the ferry from Ísafjörður, the sea has a way of flattening thought. The bow points toward the old, empty north, Hornstrandir, and the water, always shifting, takes on the grey of layered...
On certain mornings in Húsavík, the colour of the sea seems undecided. It can look slate‑hard and old, as if hammered in place by a winter that refuses to end; or it can turn an enamelled...
At the edge of the North Atlantic, far from the world’s biggest capitals, a nation of 380,000 is assembling a brain trust for the most complex problem of our time: how to live and thrive in a...
KTH Innovation supports over 400 startup ideas per year and has helped launch 450+ companies, so there is no single finite list — but here are the 17 startups from Batch 15 of the KTH Innovation...
Chalmers Ventures has over 193 portfolio companies spanning deep tech, greentech, life sciences, energy, and more, it's not possible to list them all. Below is a curated selection of notable current...
Kelluu, (Kelluu is Finnish for Floating) a Finnish startup based in Joensuu, claims to operate “the world’s largest airship fleet” to deliver persistent, high accuracy aerial data for defence,...
Finland’s VTT Technical Research Centre continues to demonstrate why it remains one of Europe’s most influential applied‑science institutes. Recent announcements highlight breakthroughs in...
Your correspondent has just spent 7 days in Kenya and Zambia looking at many innovations in agriculture, farming & forestry that are supported by Nordic investors. In general, without...
Norway’s rugged landscapes have driven world‑leading innovation in robotics, precision agriculture and sustainable livestock systems. 1. NIBIO Center for Precision Agriculture Norway’s...
Sweden is a global leader in precision forestry, robotics and climate‑smart food systems. Its innovation ecosystem blends world-class universities, state research bodies and fast-scaling agtech...
Finland continues to lead the Nordic region in climate‑smart agriculture, precision forestry and bioeconomy innovation. The country’s ecosystem blends state research institutes, universities,...
Across the Nordic region, a powerful innovation trend is reshaping residential construction: industrialized wood‑based building systems combined with next‑generation low‑carbon materials and...
By Editor in Chief, Nicholas Anderson The second Trump administration has accelerated a structural shift in the global innovation landscape—one that Europe, and especially the Nordic region, must...
In a recent paper published in Global Public Health, Chisom Udeze and Dr. Frode Eick challenge the very foundations of how we understand global development. Their argument is bold yet timely:...
Here are our 18 recent Nordic innovations (announced within the last six weeks) from leading research institutes, universities and industry sources — grouped by country and numbered; each entry is...
Finland has great strengths in AI development with deep but specialised AI sector supported by successful private companies and public bodies like VTT and their universities. Peter Sarlin, founder...
Lessons from Five Global Case Studies Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are increasingly recognized as critical for addressing climate change, biodiversity loss, and socio-economic resilience. However,...
The Nordic region's strength in innovation is increasingly demonstrated through powerful collaborations, both within the region and with international partners. Since the start of 2025, a wave of...
🇫🇮 Finland VTT's Carbon-Recycled Plastic for Automotive PartsFinnish state-owned research body VTT announced a new method to create high-strength polymers from captured CO2 and biomass. The...
🇫🇮 Finland – Nanoform Finland Plc:The Helsinki-based nanoparticle medicine company announced a partnership with Revio Therapeutics on a nano-formulated hydrogel drug (GLIORA)...
forumNordic is Back with a Stronger, Sharper, & More Focused on Global Impact forumNordic.com has relaunched in a streamlined, powerful format designed for one purpose: to give Nordic...
All Innovative Nordic companies and scientific bodies want and need international visibility – exports are essential but getting the innovations out into the markets is increasingly challenging....
In the latest edition of forumNordic News, nine press releases highlight groundbreaking scientific achievements from Nordic institutions including SINTEF, VTT, Aalto, DTU, Chalmers, and KTH....
Nordic innovations shape the future of sustainability, health, digital technology, and energy—yet few outside our region ever hear about them. A comprehensive 2024 study by forumNordic revealed a...
In an era where flexibility and precision define the manufacturing floor, a powerful European-American alliance is taking robotic automation to the next level. Danish cobot pioneer Universal...
Joensuu, Finland, and Gothenburg, Sweden, are renowned university cities fostering innovation through dynamic ecosystems that bridge academia and industry. Both cities have cultivated spin-off...
Together with VTT, LUT University is studying how carbon dioxide emissions from forest industry can be utilised in producing plastics, for example. Carbon dioxide can also be used to produce...
The use of wood and branches as fuel for energy creates local jobs and a circular economy. Finnish KX Tree Shears were developed with this in mind. Their first tree shear product was strong and...
