Heikki Laaninen
Project Manager, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Heikki Laaninen
Project Manager, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Heikki Laaninen is a Project Manager at Helsinki XR Center (Metropolia University of Applied Sciences) with a background spanning entrepreneurship, international business, and the creative industries. With over a decade as an entrepreneur in Finland's creative industries and previous experience at Rovio Entertainment and working some years abroad, he brings particular expertise in IPR licensing and international business development. Heikki is always happy to talk business in the creative field.
Author's publications
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Heikki Laaninen, Jussi Salonen
Making XR easier to approach
Extended reality holds significant potential for game developers and companies, but its technologies and ecosystems can be difficult to navigate. Through Interreg BSG-Go! project, Metropolia University of Applied Science's Helsinki XR Center developed practical tools and hands-on experiences built around one core idea: lowering the threshold for anyone ready to take XR seriously.
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Heikki Laaninen
Stronger together: connecting the game development ecosystem in the Baltic Sea Region
The European game industry thrives on networks — but the hubs and clusters that support new developers have long worked in isolation. The BSG-Go! project set out to change that, and what it built may outlast the project itself.