New Project Manager at the Foundation
Welcome Kajsa Liljegren, who started a position as a Project Manager at Stockholm Science City on October 1.
"Sweden is a good place for innovation"
Johan Ödmark is Senior Adviser at SISP, Swedish Incubators & Science Parks. To develop world-leading offers in business development and collaborations within innovation, while the members' local and regional missions become national efforts, is a challenge for SISP.
From data to impact and business – create value through strategic management of intangible assets
“Impact” – as in a positive, measurable societal change – has been something of a buzzword this autumn. Rightly so, in my opinion, since the urgency of meeting the global challenges is ever increasing. A closely related word is “innovation” – often interpreted as the process of successfully introducing something new on the market. If you add “social” to “innovation”, you will end up somewhere really close to “impact”. ISO TC 279 in the standard ISO 56000:2020 defines innovation as "a new or changed entity realizing or redistributing value".
New tools to explore disease mechanisms and improving drug discovery and development
On November 23, Stockholm Science City has a breakfast seminar on new tools to explore disease mechanisms and to improve drug discovery and development. The seminar is arranged together with GenScript, one of the world's leading biotech companies providing life sciences services and products.
More women invest in their ideas thanks to KTH Innovation
Every year, KTH Innovation receives around 350 new ideas from KTH's students, researchers and employees. Fewer women than come forward with their ideas, something KTH works to change.
– During the last five years, funding for women has increased from 19% to 42%, says Head of KTH Innovation Lisa Ericsson.
Life science cooperation between the Netherlands and Sweden gets easier
The #dualmarketentry initiative, several agreements between Swedish and Dutch life science organizations, as well as a state visit during October. Senior Project Manager for Life Science & Health at the Embassy of the Netherlands, Björn Ursing, tells us more.
"We can cure people who used to be incurable"
Rebuilding the patient's own immune system to cure cancer - this is Gunilla Enblad's focus, both when it comes to research and to clinical practice. She is Professor at the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology at Uppsala University, and Senior Consultant Oncology at the University Hospital.