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Complete Sep ’16 Feb ’17 May July Sept Nov Test user Design Contest Interviews Internal App Dev Internal App Dev & Test Internal API Dev UI Dev & Test

Design Contest Finland needs the world’s best innovation ecosystem in order to stay competitive in the future. It can be achieved only when companies, academia, investors and public sector are networked, and there is transparency of different actors in the field.

Overview

Principle of Matching Innovation Demand and supply for innovation| system inputs and outputs | making the connection Research Institutions Innovation Companies Supply Research & Companies | Projects Tech Curators & Investors | Portfolio Demand Teams Projects Individuals Orgs Market Actors Deep Data Due diligence Evaluation

Vision Semantic network based tool that interfaces with Technology investors & curators and Innovative research and companies Innovation Marketplace Semantic data linking Evaluation and ranking Supply and demand

Long Term Strategic Value Targets users User Benefits Long Term Strategic Value BF officials Enhance searching and shortlising Lean, digitalization and new services BF current customers Find best partnerships Enhance networks and growth BF future customers Discovering ”best bets” Empowerment of investments in Finnish innovation and business ecosystems Matchmaking service providers using API New API enabled platform/cloud services

Design in a nutshell Internal and external Users Developers Interface and Dashboard Semantic reasoning Quality and Complementarity Search and Match

TekesMatch Coop Network Innovation management ecosystem

User Engagement Internal Tool | 2017 Internal API | 2017 BF test users Refine internal use cases and defining the needed functionality more appropriately. Work includes test user workshops and interviews. Specifications and design of the Internal Tool is based on these core findings. Internal API | 2017 Other BF orgs/depts Develop and prioritize use cases with relation to TekesMatch functions. Aim is full-feature AI based search and analytics, as APIs for service development of other internal organizations. External API| 2018 Potential 3rd party API users Initiate the service development on top of the TekesMatch platform. We empower Finnish innovation ecosystem actors by providing TekesMatch features in their own business applications.

Timeline March April May Internal App Backend data structure design Landscape view design Broad navigation interface design Linking to Data Warehouse Internal App Interactive, clickable mockups Preliminary user feedbacks Explore collaboration with IBM and VTT Explore integration of FinPro CRM Backend – Frontend interaction Adding metadata Entity profile page design and data Sammon mapping for Landscape view Deployment to skynet “My lists” and query implementation Semantic matching algorithm Internal App MVP Landscape view ready with limited semantic reasoning results. MVP search/query ready MVP navigation, sorting and filtering ready User testing begins Ranking/profiling and dashboard design

Timeline June-July August September October November Internal App Finalizing search interface Finalizing landscape visualization Algorithmic optimization Ranking/profiling and dashboard implementation API Defining use-cases and external user/customers. Internal App Ranking/profiling and dashboard improvements Landscape view text underlay. Named entity recognition. Advanced filtering API Academy of Finland use case exploration Slush use case exploration. FinPro (Introbot) collab Internal App Hybrid search implementation. Landscape view navigation and summary views. UI Optimization improvements Additional data integration (H2020 SMEs) API Ministry of Edu/Cul use case Continue FinPro collab Testing APIs by case Develop API functions Internal App Ready, polishing Landscape view improvements. User-testing API Internal API in use November Finalizing

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