1. Discover. Analyze. Connect.

2. 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

3. 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.

4. Overview

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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

9. TekesMatch Coop Network
Innovation management ecosystem

10. 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.

11. 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

12. 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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