We want to help researchers, companies and investors have more connections with each other and better visibility to other players in the ecosystem. At Tekes, our 200 experts do this matchmaking every day but it's still very dependent on individuals' tacit knowledge of actors in the field. Our belief is that this work could be accelerated by digital tools.
This is why we are opening a design contest to find a partner or partners who can help us build digital services. This is the 1st time a digital innovation is bought by a public entity in a design contest and using a co-development hackathon, and learnings from the process will also be shared publicly.
Completed invitation to Design Contest documents can be read at: http://www.tekes.fi/tarjouspyynnot