Henna Paakinaho

My typical working day includes supporting & coaching Research to Business applicants and already funded teams, hosting The Art of Starting workshops & other R2B related events including Early-stage investor relations, Building Tampere Startup ecosystem network for Tampere University research commercialization, working with researchers & staff towards research finding valorization and developing innovation services team offering.

If you have questions about the Business Finland Research to Business (R2B) instrument or Masterclass: Commercialization of Research Findings, please be in touch!

I am the innovation services contact person for MAB - please let me know if you have any questions considering idea validation, possible Business Finland funding options or commercialization opportunities of your idea or innovation. 

My ikigai lies at Organizing and the Art of the Start. For me, these mean truly thriving to understand the customer & target market, ability to build lean systems to support business & market entry and being able to coach in these themes. 

I have M.Sc. degree from Tampere University (Economics and Business administration). I have experience from corporations, scale-ups and start-ups. I have focused on commercialization and marketing. 

Outside the university I have one sideline. Bakersfield & Moor Oy is my own one-woman consultation company specialized in organizing. Mission of B&M is to coach business owners to learn essential organizing skills in order to operate smoothly & home owners to have restful homes (Ruuhkaton arki). I am also Co-founder in Biomendex, deep tech company, that products bone graft substitutes.

Innovation services support and services are available for researchers and staff.  

Research commercialization

•         Idea and innovation valorisation planning
•         Masterclass: Commercialization of Research Findings 
•         Coaching for R2B application
  •         Application and project plan writing support
  •         Market study and customer requirement study
•         Investor events & connections to R2B teams
•         The Art of Starting workshops for R2B teams

IPR 

•     Invention disclosure

BF Funding

•         R2B
•         Co-research
•         Co-creation
•         Co-innovation
•         General BF support

Business Finland Research to Business (R2B) funding.

Feel free to contact me for coaching e.g. in following themes & subjects: 

• Commercialization of Deep tech & Innovations (Services or Products), 
• Business models, Business systems, 
• Market entry, 
• Minimum viable product, 
• Product-market-fit, 
• Customer perspective, 
• Value & supply chains, 
• Distribution, 
• Value propositions, 
• Stakeholders & ecosystem, 
• Communications, 
• Marketing & sales, 
• Risk management.