“Nordic Catalyst has successfully supported TU Wien in several technology transfer projects, and we have been very happy with the collaboration. Dr. Inkinen helped us create valuable industry connections and take the next steps with our technologies. We can highly recommend the services of Nordic Catalyst to other universities.”
“Saara is an extremely enthusiastic, yet perfectly focused professional with incredible insight into innovation management and operations. Her ability to positively motivate, work with weak points and use them for realistic further development is fantastic.”
“Nordic Catalyst has successfully assisted us in IP exploitation by establishing contacts to both Finnish companies and large global companies, leading to negotiations with companies. Saara also provided us innovation management support and very useful market information, as well as helped us streamline presentations. Great job Saara!”
“Saara helped me a lot to translate a complex biotech business idea into a smart success story! I really recommend you to work with her, which means a lot when it comes from my lips. Thank you Saara!!”
“Saara is efficient in using different information sources in search for solutions and she is also writing very good reports about the results. We appreciated her suggestions of next steps to go forward.”
“We worked with Nordic Catalyst to find licensees for a technology we’d been developing. Saara provided us with super helpful support in understanding the sector (water treatment) and helping us to identify which stakeholders would be most interested in our product. I highly recommend Nordic Catalyst to help with the technology transfer process!”
“Our research group was really happy with the “Make It Matter — Between Between Research, Communication and Impact” workshop organised by Nordic Catalyst. The methods and exercises helped us assess the potential impact of our research from new points of view and facilitated our preparation for various online events and conferences.”
“We are tremendously pleased with Saara´s productive and skilful consulting service at Nordic Catalyst. Nordic Catalyst provides strong competence and effective capacity within intellectual property exploitation and innovation management. The service is fruitful and professional.”
“I worked with Saara to develop a training for our researchers from different fields on how to communicate their research topic and value to diverse audiences. Saara thought of creative ways for the participants to learn new skills and her interactive exercises were very helpful for driving home the takeaways of the training. The participants left the training not only with a excellent pitch but also a new, concrete method for simplifying their research. Thanks for the great collaboration Saara!!”
“Knowing Saara from before, it was clear that she would be advisor for our team in the competition. She is enthusiastic, friendly and helpful, and with her expertise in life sciences she could make useful comments and ask the right questions. With her guidance we were able to improve our application and pitch to a top-notch level and win the heavily contested competition.”
“Saara was a pleasure to work with. She delivered a workshop and mentoring to a batch of digital health startups from our acceleration program HealthCare Lab. Her way of explaining the IPR matters was very thorough while interactive at the same time. What I valued the most was her practical approach and willingness to push our startups to prepare their own IPR exploitation strategy plan. ”
What the participants of Nordic Catalyst’s workshops &
training courses liked the most:
“Open and informal approach with professionalism and focus”
“team cooperation; guidance of the lecturer; different approach; focused on brainstorming”
“combination of theoretical/practical parts and passive/active participation, possibility of choosing from the list of topics to be addressed, involvement of all participants”
“The lecture was very helpful for realizing my future plans, especially by getting familiar with some of the databases and articles you showed us. The whole presentation was very professional and the approach was friendly.”
“It was perfectly prepared, very professional”
“the course was tailor-made and interactive”
“She provided a lot of specific examples and cases which had a lot of helpful information.”
“- the clarity of presentations - reasonable explanations”
“1) The topic was very interesting 2) The speaker was very eager to help and answer questions 3) The speaker was well prepared”
“The trainer, the atmosphere of the group, the interactive training”
“Very helpful content, shared it with the rest of my team”
Additional personal recommendations for Dr. Saara Inkinen
can be found in her LinkedIn profile.
