Actors and services

We have on this website provided a compilation of public sector actors which can help you in various ways to take your idea further. The list is not exhaustive, and only represents a select few actors. You can perform a search among the actors below.

KI-affiliated actors and units

Unit for Bioentrepreneurship, UBE

The Unit for Bioentrepreneurship (UBE) is an academic unit at Karolinska Institutet with the mission to inspire, educate and facilitate networks for students, researchers and clinicians within the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship. UBE also provides education and research in these fields.

Karolinska Institutet Innovations AB, KI Innovations

Karolinska Institutet Innovations AB (KI Innovations) offers expert advice and project management with a focus on market analysis, patent issues and business development. KI Innovations can help you as a researcher to commercialise projects based on medical research and thus help to improve public health. KI Innovations manages and finances the early phases of the project's development, where the ultimate aim is to establish a licence agreement or start-up.

Karolinska Institutet Science Park AB, KISP

Karolinska Institutet Science Park AB is a company which was formed on Karolinska Institutet's initiative in order to offer innovative companies an attractive and creative growth environment in close proximity of the academic research and education.

Karolinska Development AB, KD

Karolinska Development administers one of the largest portfolios of life science companies in Europe. Via a unique business model, the company can effectively control the commercialisation of world-class life science innovations. Karolinska Development's objective is to create value for investors, patients and researchers alike by developing innovations from world-leading researchers into products that can be sold or licensed at a high rate of return. Karolinska Development can help you as an innovator to gain a return on your idea/invention.

Karolinska Institutet, Grants Office - support for researchers

The Grants Office at Karolinska Institutet offers advice and education in research financing to employees of Karolinska Institutet.

Target group: Employees of Karolinska Institutet

Activity: The Grants Office (G.O.) at Karolinska Institutet is tasked with increasing external financing for research via advisory services and training of Karolinska Institutet's researchers and administrative personnel.

Offers: Advice and training in research financing

Karolinska Institutet's Career Service

Karolinska Institutet's Career Service offers activities and information aimed at students, doctoral students and researchers at Karolinska Institutet.

Target group: Doctoral students, researchers and teachers at Karolinska Institutet.

Activity: The Career and Recruitment Unit at Karolinska Institutet (KI) works with recruitment, promotion and career paths for researchers and teachers at KI.

Offers: Career development activities, information and careers advice. Courses, seminars and workshops. The newsletter Career News.

Actors outside KI

ALMI Företagspartner AB

ALMI offers advice and risk-free financing, and is aimed at innovation projects, new start-ups and established companies that want to develop.

CONNECT Östra Sverige 

CONNECT Östra Sverige offers activities that bring together entrepreneurs and growth companies with expertise and capital.

Entrepreneur Sthlm 

Entrepreneur Sthlm offers a broad and quality assured range of advice to entrepreneurs, innovators and start-ups in Stockholm county.

NyföretagarCentrum

Nyföretagarcentrum offers free advice and coaching to anyone thinking of starting a company.

SLL Innovation 

SLL Innovation offers a concept for transforming citizens' ideas to new, innovative products that facilitate daily work or improve care for patients.

Karolinska Trial Alliance - KTA 

KTA functions as a knowledge and resource centre for implementation, advice, education and the coordination of clinical trials.

Ideas development

Here you will find information on companies, authorities and other organisations which offer support and service in innovation matters.

CBCS/LCBKI Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden/Laboratories for Chemical Biology Karolinska Institutet

CBCS/LCBKI offers academic researchers in Sweden the opportunity to identify and develop bioactive small molecules by providing facilities and advice in the areas of screening, medical chemistry and preclinical profiling of small molecules, among others.

Danderyds Sjukhus Innovation - DS Innovation 

Danderyds Sjukhus Innovation offers innovation advice, prototyping, product evaluation, in-company training and risk analyses, and is aimed as personnel in the care sector in Stockholm county council, entrepreneurs and companies.

Stockholm Innovation and Growth - STING 

Stockholm Innovation and Growth, STING, offers financing to entrepreneurs and innovators from academia, research institutes and industry, as well as a support programme for individual and international development of business concepts.

Uppsala Innovation Centre, UIC

Uppsala Innovation Centre, UIC, is an incubator for growth companies in the Uppsala region. Uppsala Innovation Centre offers four incubator programmes: UIC Business Start, UIC Business Lab, UIC Business Accelerator and UIC Alumni.

Venture Cup 

Venture Cup is a business plan competition and a series of training sessions for anyone with an innovative business idea.

Financing

Here you will find information on companies, authorities and other organisations which offer support and service in innovation matters.

ALMI Företagspartner AB 

ALMI offers advice and risk-free financing, and is aimed at innovation projects, new start-ups and established companies that want to develop.

The Swedish Private Equity and Venture Capital Association - SVCA 

The Swedish Private Equity and Venture Capital Association offers venture capital and angel investor networks to companies and individuals active in the Swedish venture capital sector.

The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth - Tillväxtverket 

Tillväxtverket is tasked with reinforcing regional development and facilitating start-ups and entrepreneurship in Sweden.

VINNOVA - Sweden's innovation agency 

VINNOVA finances innovative research which has the potential to lead to sustainable growth in Sweden. The Biotechnology Department supports both biotechnology and medicine in various aspects such as drug development, diagnostics and medical technology.

Networks

Here you will find information on companies, authorities and other organisations which offer support and service in innovation matters.

The Center for Technology in Medicine and Health - CTMH 

The Center for Technology in Medicine and Health offers a forum and network and is aimed at researchers at KI and KTH with applications in the care and medical technology sectors, as well as to companies, the healthcare services and industry.

The Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum 

The Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum offers seminars, conferences and networks to researchers, entrepreneurs and small business owners.

The Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute - ESBRI

ESBRI works with the dissemination of knowledge in the areas of innovation, small businesses and entrepreneurship.

Stockholm Science City Foundation - SSCi 

Stockholm Science City acts as a hub for academia and industry and is tasked with developing the geographical areas around Norra Station and Albano with academia and industry, a project which has had the title “Stockholm Life Solna-Stockholm” since 2010.

Svenska Uppfinnarföreningen - SUF

Svenska Uppfinnarföreningen [the Swedish Inventors' Association] offers a forum for the exchange of ideas and collaboration between invention, research and industry for individuals, organisations, companies and local associations.

Uppsala BIO

Uppsala BIO is a network/trade association which creates new paths that increase the competitiveness and growth of the life science sector in Uppsala, in close cooperation with industry, universities, healthcare services and society. Uppsala BIO is part of Vinnova's Vinnväxt programme. Uppsala BIO is a project under STUNS, the Foundation for Collaboration between the Universities in Uppsala, Business, and the Public Sector.

Web services

Here, we have compiled links to websites and databases that can benefit you on your innovation journey.

Patent

The Swedish Patent and Registration Office: The PRV is the Swedish authority that handles patents, trademark protection, design protection, etc. On their website, you are guided through the patent process and will find an abundance of factual information.

The Swedish Patent and Registration Office's database, where you can search among Swedish patents, public patent applications and European patents (EPs) validated in Sweden.

Esp@cenet: Patent database containing over 50 million documents from all over the world.

Wikipatents: Patents and patent applications from the USA, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Spain and Switzerland.

Life science actors

Tools of Science: Stockholm Science City has listed companies, academic competencies and core facilities in the life science sector.

The Scandinavian Life Science Industry Guide: The journal Biotech Sweden has created a database of over 1,100 life science companies in Scandinavia.

Entrepreneurship and start-ups

ESBRI's knowledge bank: The Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute, ESBRI, has compiled everything from thesis summaries to articles and reading recommendation in its knowledge bank.

Verksamt.se: On this start-up site, the Swedish Companies Registration Office, the Swedish Tax Agency and Tillväxtverket have all gathered together information and services that you can benefit from in your business – from starting up to winding up.