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| Millennium Innovation Forum
Blog: Finding Sustainable Alternatives for Natural Gas Through Innovation
Natural gas is a finite resource and burning it contributes to global warming. This makes it necessary to urgently invest in alternative energy sources. Considering the combined carbon footprint of…Read more ›
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| Millennium Innovation Forum
Blog: Industry-academia Collaboration for the Green Transition
Two important players in the green transition of our society are universities and private companies. For many reasons, the collaboration between the two is of particular importance. The business case…Read more ›
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| ICT & Smart Systems , Millennium Innovation Forum
Virtual Reality Explained
Long before the excitement around the Metaverse started, technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) had already gathered a lot of hype. Over time, other terms such…Read more ›
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| Millennium Innovation Forum
Blog: Our Energy Systems Can Be 100% Renewable
The world can achieve a fully renewable energy system by – or even before – 2050, LUT University professor Christian Breyer argues. An energy system based on renewables has become…Read more ›
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| Millennium Innovation Forum
Blog: The Fragile Web of Life – Tales From Fading Worlds
Reversing biodiversity´s ongoing deterioration requires system-wide re-organization, a transformative change across technological, economic and social realms, i.e. a fundamental shift of paradigms, goals, identities, power and future expectations. But do…Read more ›
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| Millennium Innovation Forum
From Connectivity to Togetherness – Nokia’s Nishant Batra Envisions a Digital Revolution
Nishant Batra, Chief Strategy and Technology Officer (CSTO) at Nokia, believes that we are on the cusp of a new digital era. Ahead of the Millennium Innovation Forum, he spoke…Read more ›
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| Millennium Innovation Forum
Blog: We need a big-picture analysis for electric vehicles
Like many other consumer decisions, whether the purchase of an electric car is an environmentally friendly choice depends on many factors. There are two major questions to consider. The first…Read more ›
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| Energy & Environment , Millennium Innovation Forum
Blog: We have what it takes to accelerate global transformation towards renewable and circular solutions
by Lars Peter Lindfors, Senior Vice President of Innovation at renewable fuels company Neste At Neste, we are working on increasing the availability of renewable and recycled raw materials while…Read more ›
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| Life Sciences & Health , Millennium Technology Prize
Professor Frances Arnold: Reinventing Evolution
The 2016 Millennium Technology Prize winner, Frances Arnold, reflects on her extraordinary work in the field of directed evolution In 1859, Charles Darwin published the theory of natural selection, exploring…Read more ›
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| Energy & Environment , Millennium Innovation Forum
Blog: Let’s stop using fear to try to create climate action
We need to focus on a different, more positive approach, writes Professor Atte Korhola. Wildfires have been raging in Europe, Sicily is melting within a heat dome and the Gulf…Read more ›