About LU Innovation
LU Innovation’s mission is to help ideas from Lund University improve our world and the human condition. Together with researchers and students, we develop ideas and research findings into innovations – solving urgent problems and creating value.
Lund University is one of the world’s hundred leading universities with a mission to understand, explain and improve the world. LU Innovation translates that knowledge into to benefit sustainable growth and a better tomorrow.
We support the whole of Lund University across the full range of disciplines. We have a unique opportunity to help solve the biggest social challenges. Our focus on sustainability, gender equality, and inclusiveness ensures we develop solutions that are socially, environmentally, and financially sustainable.
Our support and investment
One way to ensure that your research findings and ideas are put to good use in society is to transform them into a new service, product or method. LU Innovation can help you along the way and move your project forward through idea and innovation development, financial support and expert knowledge about agreements and how to protect your idea.
Our team combines research, industry, and public sector experience with extensive networks. We support all Lund University researchers and students, regardless of discipline or project stage. For aspiring entrepreneurs, our incubator VentureLab by Lu provides business development support.
LU Innovation also works specifically to encourage students and recent graduates to become entrepreneurs and to help them develop business ideas or start their own companies. Our incubator VentureLab by LU Innovation offers inspiration, business development.
Investments are managed by our partner organisation LU Ventures, which is owned by the Swedish state but managed by Lund University. LU Ventures mission is to create new businesses from ideas and research results from Lund University, and which will contribute to growth and create jobs in Sweden.
Find out more about LU Ventures
LU Innovation is part of FSI, Lund University’s research, collaboration, and innovation division, and is tasked with supporting innovation. The support from LU Innovation is free of charge and open to all researchers, employees and students.
Our strategic programmes
LU Innovation manages a range of projects and programmes in collaboration with other stakeholders. One example is Innovationskontor Syd, the joint innovation office for all the universities in southern Sweden. Another example is SWElife, a strategic innovation programme funded by Vinnova and coordinated by LU Innovation.
Read more about the strategic innovation programme Swelife here.
LU Innovation is further part of an Interreg programme called Science for Society. Its aim has been to strengthen the creation of research-based growth, innovation and value in the ØKS region.
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