May 27, 2005
Moving Out of Nokia's Shadow
An interesting article from The Washington Post on how Nokia's success has made Finland one of the fastest-growing and most prosperous economies in Europe and how numerous Finnish entrepreneurs are trying to launch their own little Nokias.
Among the array of new Finnish technologies:
-- Liqum is a firm created by Sakari Laitinen, 40, an engineer who invented a technology to detect impurities or inconsistencies in all kinds of liquids and slurries. The technology is based on "artificial sniffing," Laitinen explained -- a means of detecting changes in a flow of something as simple as water or as complex as the goo of wood pulp, water and chemicals that becomes paper in a modern paper machine.
-- MetaCase, a software engineering company sells a tool called the MetaCase code generator. It's used to design new telephones and is already used by Nokia, a huge task for a company that needs to launch about 40 new models a year to stay competitive. He thinks it can be used by nearly everyone writing programming code.
-- Innosonic is producing tools to help content owners -- entertainment companies, travel guide publishers, newspapers and magazines -- earn additional income by repackaging their material and distributing it to cell phones.
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