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Scale your business

Next Business Lab seeks to collaborate with growth companies to accelerate innovation

Join us in shaping the future of energy

Tomorrow’s energy landscape is being reshaped by new technologies and regulation in unforeseen ways. Decarbonising our industry is not something we can achieve overnight. We believe that finding visionary partners with the most inspiring innovations is crucial in making it happen.

To tackle these challenges, Wärtsilä Next Business Lab is on a mission to uncover game-changing innovations to support the energy transition. We’re looking for ambitious growth companies to join us in moving towards a more sustainable energy future.

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What's in it for you?

We believe there is a lot of untapped potential in growth companies and we want to help you to scale your business. Working together, you’ll get access to our key markets and customers across the globe. We’ll support you at every step in developing and validating your innovations.

Learn from industry experts


Gain insights into how to succeed in the power sector. Increase your awareness of industry dynamics and how development, manufacturing, and purchasing work.

Develop winning business cases


Collaborate with us to co-create a compelling use and business case. This will help you to understand how to gain traction for your services and solutions. 

Gain access to prototyping facilities 

Engage in a Proof-of-Concept project, create a prototype or pilot service or solution in the ProtoZones at the Sustainable Technology Hub.

Build thought leadership                               

Join us at an event or participate in a publication to build thought leadership on a shared topic of interest. 

What we're looking for

In the Wide and Intelligent Sustainable Energy (WISE) Ecosystem, Wärtsilä explores how the energy sector can be decarbonised through wisely generated balancing. With the WISE Ecosystem, we’re in search of solutions that can springboard our customers into a decarbonised future. 

Learn more about WISE

Autonomous solutions

We see co-innovation potential in areas related to autonomous power plants and autonomous solutions’ predictability and reliability. This includes plant optimization, predictive operation and maintenance based on data, holistic plant health, digital twins, data intelligence and monitoring with advanced capture technologies.

Hydrogen economy

Hydrogen creates opportunities for collaboration, for instance, developing hydrogen components for high-pressure inputs and digital twins for hydrogen value chains. Other examples include innovating leak detection solutions, sensor technology and new materials for hydrogen and ammonia storage. 

Could we be a perfect match?

To achieve a successful partnership, we should be able to:

Scale your business by providing access to our customers and markets

Get competences or access to technology faster or with a lower cost

Be able to develop future technologies that will play a critical role 

Not a match with our focus areas?

Your technology might still be relevant for Wärtsilä. Apply to become a supplier.

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Collaboration stories

Ready to spark things up? Get in contact with our team.

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