Business and investment planning
- Investment project fundamentals
- Business and investment planning in the forest industry
- Conceptual phase
- Pre-feasibility phase
- Feasibility phase
- Organisational learning in investment projects
Review of innovative startup companies in the Finnish forest industry The key themes for biobased innovations are identified as packaging, textiles, biobased solutions for health care and cosmetics, and building or housing, as depicted in Figure 1. This article reviews some of the most interesting start-ups emerged in the 21st century in Finland and their
Authors & references
Authors:
Kim Nguyen and Antti Lindqvist
References:
- Nguyen, K. 2020. Innovations of the Forest Industry in the 21st Century. Master’s thesis. Aalto University, School of Chemical Engineering, Espoo: 163 p.
- Spinnova. 2018. Spinnova’s pilot factory line completed successfully (Press release). https://spinnova.com/archives/news/spinnovas-pilot-factory-line-completed-successfully/. [Accessed September 9th, 2020]
- Infinited Fiber Company. Our tech. https://infinitedfiber.com/our-tech/. [Accessed September 9th, 2020]
- Asaadi, S. 2019. Dry-Jet Wet Spinning of Technical and Textile Filament Fibers from a Solution of Wood Pulp and Waste Cotton in an Ionic Liquid. Doctoral dissertation. Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems. Helsinki: 178. ISBN 978-952-60-8695-8 (pdf).
- Dolea Straw. https://www.doleastraw.com/. [Accessed September 9th, 2020]
- Kotkamills. 2019. Kotkamills’ barrier boards for plastic-free food service packaging solutions at FachPack (Press release). Kotkamills. https://kotkamills.com/kotkamills-barrier-boards-for-plastic-free-food-service-packaging-solutions-at-fachpack/. [Accessed September 9th, 2020]
- Sulapac. 2019. Sulapac and Stora Enso bring the sustainable straw to the market with several customers signed up (Press release). https://www.sulapac.com/blog/sulapac-and-stora-enso-bring-the-sustainable-straw-to-the-market-with-several-customers-signed-up/. [Accessed September 9th, 2020]
- Montisera. 2019. Montisera Strengthens executive management team by appointing new CEO (Press release). https://www.montisera.com/news/newceo-montisera. [Accessed September 9th, 2020]
- Kolster. 2019. Montisera commercialises promising bioactive compounds – Montinutra revolutionises the circular bioeconomy. https://www.kolster.fi/en/blog/montisera-commercialises-promising-bioactive-compounds. [Accessed September 9th, 2020]
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