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New report on liabilities in digital services

Jakob Dumky, founder of Noncomplicity, has worked with questions related to quality, usability and regulations in medical device industry for almost 20 years. Jakob is the author of the report Liabilities in digital services with or without health accounts (available in Swedish). The report describes how data can be shared from digital health services to, for example, care providers and who bears the liability for personal data in different situations. We had the opportunity to ask Jakob some questions about the report.

2021-06-10

Stockholm Life Science Conference 2021

On May 25, the Stockholm Life Science Conference took place. The conference was conducted digitally with only a few speakers on site in Flemingsberg. Karolinska Institutet (KI) was the main organizer in collaboration with Stockholm Region, KTH and Stockholm University. The aim was to discuss the future of life science after the pandemic.

2021-06-09

Webinar online: Sharing data with digital health tools

Digital services are generating increasing amounts of data about the user's health and lifestyle. This data can be of great benefit to the individual using the service, but also to caregivers. Similarly, data generated within healthcare can be useful for individuals. So how can this data be shared and who is responsible for the data? Below is a recording from the webinar that was held on June 8.

2021-06-08

The building of the university campus Albano is underway

Despite the limitations of the past year, the building of the new university campus at Albano has been able to continue. Just a stone’s throw from the city and close to Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the construction of all the buildings at Albano is underway. After several years of focused work - followed by a time when it was barely possible to plan for more than one day at a time - Stockholm University has according to plan taken over Albano Houses 2 and 4. Now furniture and planning is underway for the businesses that moves in this summer.

2021-06-08

InfraLife – for increased use of Swedish research infrastructures

Infra Access for Life Science Sweden - InfraLife - is an initiative that aims to maximize the benefits and return of investment in Sweden's large-scale strategic research infrastructures SciLifeLab, MAXIV and ESS for the benefit of life science research in academia, industry and healthcare. Frida Lundmark, Life Science Special Advisor at the industry organization Lif, talks about what InfraLife can do for the pharmaceutical industry.

2021-06-03

Consensus, foresight, collaboration and co-creation

In a changing world, consensus, foresight, collaboration and co-creation between universities, business and society are required to consolidate and strengthen the power of innovation. In Uppsala, STUNS has worked with this approach for almost 40 years since the first plans were made for what would become Uppsala Science Park and which became the starting point for STUNS Life Science. Read more in a blog post by Björn Arvidsson.

2021-06-02

Webinar online: The Future of Health - the patient perspective in digitalisation

On June 1 we hosted an online panel discussion on how the digitalisation of healthcare can give patients tools for better health and how healthcare can use patients' knowledge as a resource in their development.

2021-06-01

Webinar online: What can ESS and MAX IV do for Swedish life science?

On May 26 we held a webinar in collaboration with the ESS / MAX IV office, which is operated jointly by the Swedish Research Council and Vinnova. You will find out more about techniques of relevance for life science.

2021-05-26

1st EuroScience Policy Forum, June 29-30

Carl Johan Sundberg is MD and Professor at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Karolinska Institutet. He is also one of the organizers of the 1st EuroScience Policy Forum which will take place on June 29-30.

2021-05-21

Stockholm Region EU Office - Stockholm's extended arm in Brussels

The Stockholm Region EU Office is Stockholm's extended arm in Brussels. Through networking, information gathering, advocacy work and profiling, we promote the Stockholm region's common political interests in the EU. Our daily work mainly consists of monitoring the policy development within the fields of research and innovation, digitalisation, environment and climate, transport and cohesion and recovery.

2021-05-18

Policy learning about multilevel governance and smart specialization

This week, a new report will be released with policy lessons learned during the implementation of the project Cohes3ion (Integrating the territorial dimension for cohesive S3.) This is a collaboration between Region Stockholm and partners from eight European regions, with funding from Interreg Europe. The overall aim has been to strengthen regional strategies for innovation and smart specialization by developing multi-level governance and collaboration between different types of actors.