Helsinki Innovation Services

Name

Helsinki Innovation Services

Legal name

Helsinki Innovation Services

Website

https://his.fi

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Technology Transfer Services

NAICS

Scientific Research and Development Services (5417), All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (541990), Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (54)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

IP Licensing, Transactions & Technology Transfer (BPAHAMAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Technology Transfer & Innovation-Driven Research Universities (High Commercialization) (EDAHABAH)

Keywords

• Research commercialisation services
• Technology transfer office
• Intellectual property licensing
• Academic spinout formation
• University innovation services

Headquarters

HQ city

Helsinki

HQ country

Finland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Helsinki Innovation Services operates as the technology transfer and commercialisation unit of the University of Helsinki. It provides services that help academic researchers disclose inventions, protect intellectual property, secure commercialisation funding, and form spinout companies, while connecting industry partners and investors with licensable technologies, commercialisation projects, and spinout investment opportunities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Moonshot Studio: A commercialisation initiative under Helsinki Innovation Services aimed at supporting moonshot projects.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

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App detail

Direct peers

• Oxford University Innovation: Oxford University Innovation is the technology transfer and commercialisation office of the University of Oxford. It is a direct peer as it offers the same core services (invention disclosures, IP protection, licensing, spinout formation) to researchers and industry partners, operating from a leading European research university.
• Cambridge Enterprise: Cambridge Enterprise is the commercialisation arm of the University of Cambridge, handling invention disclosures, licensing, and spinout formation. It is a direct peer as a comparable European university TTO with a similar service portfolio and two-sided researcher/industry model.
• Imperial College Innovations: Imperial College's technology transfer office handles IP protection, licensing, and spinout creation from a leading STEM-focused UK research university. It is a direct peer as a European university commercialisation unit with comparable services to Helsinki Innovation Services.
• MIT Technology Licensing Office: MIT's Technology Licensing Office handles invention disclosures, patenting, and licensing from one of the world's leading research universities. It is a direct peer as a flagship university TTO that monetises a large upstream research portfolio through the same disclosure-to-license-to-spinout pipeline.
• Karolinska Institutet Innovations (KI Innovations): KI Innovations is the commercialisation arm of Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, focusing on life-science research commercialisation, licensing, and spinouts. It is a direct peer as a Nordic university TTO with an analogous mandate to turn academic discoveries into commercial outcomes.
• Stanford Office of Technology Licensing: Stanford's OTL manages invention disclosures, patent prosecution, and licensing from Stanford University research. It is a direct peer as a globally benchmarked university TTO with a similar mandate around licensing and spinout formation from academic research.

Regional players

• Business Finland: Business Finland is Finland's national innovation and internationalisation funding agency, providing grants, investor matchmaking, and commercialisation support. It is a regional peer as an ecosystem participant that channels funding and partner introductions into Finnish research-based spinouts alongside TTOs.
• Aalto University Innovation Services: Aalto University's innovation services unit supports IP, licensing, and spinout creation within another leading Finnish research university. It is a regional peer because it serves a directly comparable Finnish academic-commercialisation function but operates from a different university ecosystem.
• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland: VTT is Finland's national applied research organisation, commercialising research through licensing, spinouts, and industry partnerships. It is a regional peer because it operates the same research-to-commercialisation pipeline in Finland but at a national, non-university scale, often partnering with TTOs.

Others

• Tekes (now Business Finland) and Finnish tech-transfer ecosystem: Finnish national funding and innovation policy agencies (now consolidated under Business Finland) co-fund research commercialisation and spinout formation. They are ecosystem participants that complement university TTOs like Helsinki Innovation Services in moving research outputs toward market.

Market position

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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