CREATIVE BUSINESS CLUSTER IN THE TAMPERE REGION

Creative Business cluster in the Tampere Region ”The Tampere region has the potential to re-invent itself as a living laboratory, a fun and crazy place to create and experiment with new ideas for products and services in an agile and innovative environment.” - Kenneth Nyholm Head of Unit, Innovations and International Business Operations, ELY centre

Lots of playground for the creative minds We have great creative business expertise in the Tampere region: 40+ game studios with expertise also in serious and educational gaming 20 theatres that range from amateur groups to internationally acclaimed professionals Mediapolis, a new kind of production environment, a commercial hub of audio-visual production and storytelling 1,000 events and festivals with €100m total turnover, from culture to sports, business to pleasure. Annual growth 3-7%

What is the Creative Business cluster about? Funding and expertise Business Angels Public funded projects National expertise programmes (INKA) Agencies and managers Top research and education Culture and arts institutions: Theatres, Concerts, Art exhibitions, Museums, Festivals... Modern innovation and content creation HUBs: Mediapolis, New factory, Protomo, Demola

Bright place, Bright people “Event planning services business is something we´re good at. Our technical, production and communication expertise is unsurpassed. And if the client wishes, we can provide one-stop service for everything. ” - Aku Syrjä, CEO, Aku's Factory “Our outstanding experience in VFX, like creating digital sets, ranges from large-scale movie productions to advertising.” - Samuli Torssonen, Visual effects supervisor, Troll VFX Oy

Top-level creative business companies Human motion, acting, sensor-based performance 3D Motion capture, user experience, usability, user interfaces, human machine interaction, film, TV, theatre Companies: TrollFX, T7 The Centre for Practice as Research in Theatre, VIMMA and Drex projects (STX Finland, Kone Oyj), Tampereen Komediateatteri, Tampereen Palatsiteatteri Storytelling, content creation Marketing, audio-visual content production, company communications, educational materials, occupational health Companies: Adsek, Aitomedia, Mediabeat, Mediacompany Bermuda, Team Action Zone, RockAdillo Production Digital games development Serious gaming, educational gaming contents and methods, entertainment content Companies: Rovio Entertainment Ltd., TrapLight, Colossar Order, Beiz Events production Festivals, events, company branding, hotels and restaurants, retail Companies: Aku’s Factory, Tammerfest Oy, Tampere-talo, Pirfest ry Architecture, public locations and design Exterior lighting design, city image and safety, machine building Companies: Valoa Design, Ingman Design, Muodonmuutos, Arkkitehtikonttori Petri Pussinen Oy, Arkkitehtistudio M&Y

How do we operate? Mediapolis is an international media campus concentrating on content production and audio-visual information and communications technology. Production companies and students work side-by-side in an energetic atmosphere creating their own stories while utilising different media. The Demola and Protomo innovation concepts are also a part of Mediapolis. Demola offers university students a great opportunity to add some real-life twist to the conventional path towards a career. The New Factory is an environment for open innovation where ideas can be processed into prototypes, pilot projects, products and services, new business and new jobs. Campus Arena will be a hub of science, research and technology. This extreme concentration of knowhow is being developed in the heart of the Tampere University of Technology campus in Hervanta.

Welcome to the Bright side! ”Our expertise lies in storytelling and presenting it by all kinds of visual and aural methods. We are also actively developing new forms of production for the media sector.” - Kai Salonen, Director of Education / School of Art, Music and Media at Tampere University of Applied Sciences "We are the global pioneer in creative games. Our constructive research in human-computer interaction delves into the complexities of subjects like information retrieval, gesture- controlled services and even applications that can interpret your emotions." - Jarmo Viteli, Research Director, School of Information Sciences at the University of Tampere

Where do we get the know-how? Supporting education, research & development: Tampere University of Applied Sciences Media, digital sound and commercial music Media, scriptwriting and visual expression Film and Television Media and Arts Music Information Technology Service Management Media production International project management Tampere Vocational College Culture Sector Natural Sciences Sector Technology, Communications and Transport Sector Entrepreneurship Mentoring University of Tampere School of Information Sciences School of Management School of Communication, Media and Theatre School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies School of Social Sciences and Humanities Tampere University of Technology Tampere School of Architecture Department of Signal Processing Department of Pervasive Computing Tampere Adult Education Centre ICT Tourism and Catering Tampere is the city of theatre and culture. This, combined with our cutting-edge high technology and innovativeness, forms the base for flourishing creative businesses in the region.

In Tampere everything works Population places of business 2nd largest airport in the country 2/3 Finns live within a 1,5h drive from Tampere Every 5 th citizen in Tampere is a student World class research and university-industry collaboration Easy to reach – one-day business trip to all major locations Talented, educated, experienced people Growth center that keeps on growing At the top of the most attractive Finnish cities – year after year

Contact us and create something that you can’t even imagine! For information on how to combine innovation, research and know-how with other industries, request materials on the other top clusters of the Tampere Region: Intelligent Machines Manufacturing ICT Nanotechnology Cleantech & Energy Life Science