Specialist Services
Hackathons and Call for Innovations
The BioBoosters Hackathon is a turnkey service to solve business challenges and connect with new, innovative partners in a way that supports the bio‑circular economy and sustainable business. The innovation competition helps you find active players within a selected theme, gain fresh perspectives and find the right partner to solve your challenge.
By organising a hackathon or a call for innovations, you highlight your organisation’s active role in advancing the bioeconomy, circular economy, and innovation. It boosts your competitiveness and strengthens your brand and employer image.
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A hackathon is an innovation challenge designed to find new partners and fresh ideas for the challenge owner.
As the challenge owner, you define the content of the challenge, and we identify the most suitable solutions and potential partners to implement it.
We work with a network of research and educational organisations as well as innovative growth companies to identify the most suitable circular economy solutions for your needs.
Selected teams are supported by a multidisciplinary mentor group including representatives from your organisation and external experts. With this support, teams develop their ideas into solutions that best support your business needs.
The highlight of the innovation journey is a 1–2 day event, the hackathon. The fun and engaging event is usually organised at the client’s premises, but can also be arranged at another location, with hybrid or fully remote participation.
For the best experience, we recommend on-site event, as it enables participants, clients, and mentors to build new connections.
Included in the hackathon service
- Joint definition and scoping of your business challenge
- Marketing and active scouting to attract the right challenge solvers
- Kick-off workshop (½ day)
- Team mentoring ( for final pitch preparation
- Hackathon event (1–2 days)
- Consolidation of hackathon results
- Results communication via Jamk channels
The service is always taylored for your needs, and the price depends on
After the hackathon, additional services are available to support further development and funding applications. Jamk offers a strong RDI environment for testing and piloting new innovations, as well as facilitation for co-creation workshops.
Included in the Call for Innovations service
- Joint challenge definition with the client, including challenge publication and marketing
- Idea application process
- Networking event
- Summary of results
- Results communications via Jamk channels
The service is always taylored for your needs. After the call, we also provide additional services to support further development and funding applications. Jamk’s strong RDI environment enables effective testing, piloting, and co-creation of innovations.
Why BioBoosters Hackathon?
The BioBoosters Hackathon concept is an effective and professional, yet down-to-earth way to find new solutions and build networks of expertise. As a challenge owner, it is well worth investing time in these days, as they deliver significant value. And although one team was selected as the winner, all teams show strong potential for future collaboration.
Mikko Lehikoinen, Vice President, Marketing, Valtra Inc.
BioBoosters is a bio‑ and circular economy accelerator with a mission to help organisations create new, sustainable business.
In addition to an in-house expert team, BioBoosters works with a broad national and international network of experts and partners across multiple industries. This enables access to the best possible solutions and supports long-term collaboration. Experienced in organising the hackathons, you are in safe hands with us!
Eija Iso-Ahola
Anni Hintikka
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