Shopping center A Bloc is the beating heart and meeting place of the Otaniemi campus with its restaurants, cafés and other services.
Bring your coursework or research to life in a shopping centre with a collaborate platform!
The collaborate platform of shopping centre A Bloc enables testing of new innovations in a genuine environment.
Shopping Centre A Bloc and its entrepreneurs want to promote development of new creative and functional innovations suitable for the shopping centre environment. The new pilot platform enables Aalto Community to test their new technologies and innovations in a real environment.
Create a project suitable for
the shopping centre environment in A Bloc
The entrepreneurs of A Bloc are committed to promote innovation activities with Aalto University and are looking for projects that can bring added value to their businesses and Aalto University’s innovation ecosystem. If you have a new product or technology, or perhaps a course project, that you like to pilot in a shopping centre environment, please send the details via A Bloc's website and we will find the right entrepreneur for you.
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More information:
Susanna Aspia, Asset Manager
Aalto University Campus & Real Estate
susanna.aspia@aalto.fi
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