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17-25 October 2026

Creative Ecosystem Acceleration by Urban Mill

Teams are brought into a holistic Creative Ecosystem Acceleration process, which collides startups with creatives and facilitates their co-evolution.

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This project is now archived and was part of DDW20

This project is part of
European Design Upgrade: transnational capacity building
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Co-creation at Urban Mill
Co-creation at Urban Mill
Joni Viitanen, City of Espoo
As part of the European Design Upgrade (EDU) project, Urban Mill co-created and tested in Espoo Innovation Garden a new internationally scalable place-based innovation concept, which bridges startups and creatives by a holistic Creative Ecosystem Acceleration process.
Creatives often face challenges in building sustainable business models for delivering their competences to the market. On the other hand many startups stick too much to their initial offering concepts and don’t use complementary competences when pivoting
Aerial view of Espoo Innovation Garden
Aerial view of Espoo Innovation Garden
Aalto University Campus & Real Estate (ACRE)
50+ startups gave their profiles in DEALROOM
50+ startups gave their profiles in DEALROOM
Deal Room Events
Urban Mill teams at ThingLInk
Urban Mill teams at ThingLInk
The Guild of Industrial Engineering and Management
Aalto ARTS and business meet at Urban Mill
Aalto ARTS and business meet at Urban Mill

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K.Fund, GoLocal, Urban Mill, Creative Brussels
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