Henna Paakinaho

My typical working day includes supporting & coaching Research to Business applicants and teams through either Masterclass: Commercialisation of Research Findings or The Art of Starting workshops. I build Early-stage investor relations, represent Tampere University in Startup.Tampere ecosystem and develop Tampere University's research commercialization, working with researchers & staff towards research finding valorization.

If you have questions about the Business Finland Research to Business (R2B) instrument or Masterclass: Commercialisation 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 commercialisation opportunities of your idea or innovation. 

My ikigai lies at Organising 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 deep tech start-ups. I have focused on commercialisation and marketing. 

Outside the university I have one sideline. Bakersfield & Moor Oy is my own one-woman consultation company specialised in organising. 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 commercialisation

•         Idea and innovation valorisation planning
•         Masterclass: Commercialisation of Research Findings 
•         Coaching for R2B application
  •         Application and project plan writing support
  •         Market study and customer validation support
•         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: 

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