Entrepreneurship Portal
Jyväskylä University offers excellent conditions for developing and launching research‑ and expertise‑based business activities. During your studies, you gain valuable working‑life skills, and through EduJyväskylä’s entrepreneurship studies or MOVI’s working‑life studies, you learn to identify and articulate these skills—and to turn your ideas into concrete plans.
Yritystehdas coaches emerging teams and companies, and also provides guidance in exploring different funding opportunities. For example, product development funding can support activities such as building a prototype or conducting IPR investigations. The Research and Innovation Services unit helps with various early‑stage funding opportunities.
Unifund Ltd can invest capital in the most promising startup companies. Intellectual property arising from university research and owned by the university—such as patents, software, and datasets—can also be invested into a company through Unifund. We also educate our students in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking.
What does it mean to be entrepreneurial? Are you considering setting up a company?
“Should I become an entrepreneur?” Many of our university’s students and alumni are self‑employed through their own companies. Get inspired by entrepreneurship stories, use your networks, challenge yourself! Find support for identifying and making use of your own competencies.
As a university, we are connected to entrepreneurship in many ways. Entrepreneurship studies are open to all our students, researchers, and staff. In addition, the university’s career services and faculties offer their own project and working‑life studies. These courses support your subject studies and provide perspectives and tools for recognizing and utilizing your skills.
We support our researchers in the commercialization of research results and encourage collaboration with companies. Staff are also offered guidance in establishing a company, as well as in matters related to innovation, intellectual property rights, and commercialization.
Research and Innovation Services (TIP/RIS) provides assistance to JYU researchers in questions related to applying for research funding and helps companies, work communities, and researchers find common interests. If you need support for your funding application or guidance in considering research ethics, impact, or commercialization, please explore our webpages.
Research and Innovation Services staff
Entrepreneurship and RDI (Research, Development and Innovation) for Researchers and Staff at the University of Jyväskylä.
What kinds of support services are available for different needs in the field of RDI?
The University of Jyväskylä has a financing company Unifund Jyväskylä Ltd to support the start up of research-based businesses.
The operations of new businesses may be based on the utilisation of intellectual rights created at the University or on services originating from research results.
Unifund Jyväskylä Ltd
