Otaniemi

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Otaniemi

Main District	Suur-Tapiola
Inner District(s)	Otaniemi, Keilaniemi
Population	3,496 (2006)
Languages
- Finnish	82.6 %
- Swedish	4.3 %
- Other	13.2 %
Jobs	12,826

Otaniemi (Otnäs in Swedish) is a district in Espoo, Finland. It is located near the border of Helsinki, capital of Finland.

Otaniemi is known as the silicon valley of Finland. The whole innovation ecosystem is present as Otaniemi is the home of most notable of (and synonymous for) the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) (Teknillinen korkeakoulu (TKK) in Finnish), The Finnish Innovation Center, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Micronova the Micro- and Nanotechnology research center, KCL the paper and pulp research center, CSC the IT center for Science, GTK Geological survey of Finland, MIKES. Business is represented in the area by the business incubator Technopolis Ventures, Technopolis and within a kilometer the Keilaniemi area is home to such world headquarters as Nokia, Neste, Kone and Fortum. Many of the finnish headquarters of large global companies are also in the area; such as Microsoft, MSD and Nissan.

Otaniemi from the air, 1989.

Otaniemi hosts a vibrant - and at times rowdy - student community especially concentrated in the several blocks of student housing called Teekkarikylä. Some buildings of Teekkarikylä are owned by the student association of TKK, others are owned by HOAS.

Many buildings located in the Otaniemi campus area, including the main building of TKK, are designed by famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. For this reason, the area is protected as a national scenery, representing the modernist and functionalist architecture Finland is famous for internationally.