Genelec Creates G Innovation Lab to Encourage Creativity and Entrepreneurship

Genelec is establishing the first branch of its new G Innovation Lab in Kuopio, Finland, with the goal of nurturing creativity and entrepreneurship in the Savilahti region of the country, and attracting imaginative professionals to the area. Starting with a Discovery Event Pitch Challenge in August 2021, Genelec aims to recruit a team of ‘start-up minded’ individuals to further develop the innovative thinking that has helped inspire the company’s technical breakthroughs over the last four decades.

Three young South Korean entrepreneurs with a track record of successful tech startups have announced a second venture: Muzika. Co-founders Inseo Chung, Sangmin Heo, and Jangwon Lee previously launched Mapiacompany, a music technology platform. Muzika will incorporate blockchain technology to build a music sharing platform that envisions a revolutionary token economy for music that allows fans to engage directly in the production, distribution, and consumption of music.

"...I printed out a bunch of single-word names on stickers and stuck them on front panels. Purple was among them and it looked the most interesting. I showed the first MC76 units (1176 with Roman numerals for 1100) at the Audio Engineering Society (AES) show in 1997", explains Purple Audio owner Andrew Roberts.

Founded in 2009 by Jason Lucash and Mike Szymczak, OrigAudio offers innovative solutions for music portability. As they explained to audioXpress, “both of us are marketing guys who recognized the need for a light, ultra-portable speaker. We met on the job, which required a lot of travel. This is how we came up with our “million dollar idea” for cool, portable speakers.”