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Here's what you should know and what investors look for. Most startup companies need investment at some point in their journey, but a lot of companies struggle to find it. Investors come in many shapes and at different times of the journey, from perhaps early investors like family and friends to business angels and later-stage venture capital. It is not one-size-fits-all, so make sure to consider

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/getting-investment-startup - 2025-10-13

Ideation is a creative process for generating ideas, lots of ideas. It can help you to think outside-the-box, and is an essential part of the design process. First of all, you need to come up with a problem or challenge that you want to solve. Look around - what problems do you or people in your surroundings encounter? When you've located this and narrowed the problem down, you need some technique

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/ideation-increase-innovation-potential - 2025-10-13

With SEK 36 million in funding, stakeholders in Skåne are joining forces to develop and commercialise breakthrough ATMP research – Advanced Therapy Medical Products. The aim is to accelerate the next generation of these therapies so that more potentially life-saving ATMP treatments reach patients who currently lack effective treatment options Through the ATMP Path2Patient project, stakeholders wil

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/major-investment-accelerates-advanced-therapies-research-patient - 2025-10-13

SAGA Diagnostics, a portfolio company of LU Ventures, has the potential to transform cancer care by detecting cancer recurrence early with unparalleled sensitivity. Founded in 2016 from research in Lund, their groundbreaking test is now available in the U.S. From Lab to Life: The Research Behind SAGA's BreakthroughThere's a significant need for improved biomarkers to diagnose cancer, select the be

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/transforming-cancer-care-saga-diagnostics-test-now-launched-us - 2025-10-13

LU Ventures portfolio company Xenergic, a spin-off from Lund University, has reached a pivotal commercial milestone. Its revolutionary low-power memory technology is now in mass production with a component manufacturer. In modern mobile phones, smartwatches, and other connected devices, the on-chip memory can be responsible for more than 50% of the total energy consumption. This massive power draw

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/breakthrough-xenergic-energy-saving-memory-enters-mass-production - 2025-10-13

Can innovation strengthen research? Heiner Linke, professor of nanophysics and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, has done exactly that by combining research and innovation. His own attitude towards utilisation and innovation has evolved from a sense of duty to passion: "Now I think it's genuinely exciting." Do you see increasing integration of innovation within research?"Twenty year

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/you-get-best-both-worlds-heiner-linke-why-swedish-researchers-should-invest-innovation - 2025-10-13

Bacterial vaginosis (BV), a common vaginal infection caused by an imbalance in the natural bacteria of the vagina, affects up to one in four women annually, often causing significant stress. Conventional antibiotic treatments typically prescribed by doctors can disrupt the natural vaginal microbiome, leading to high rates of recurrence and secondary yeast infections. Gedea Biotech’s novel antibiot

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/lab-market-phyph-now-approved-launch-eu - 2025-10-13

An innovative IVF test and a methane detector – these are some of the future innovation stars developed at Lund University. Since its launch in 2017, the Future Innovations Award has recognised ideas that can “change our world for the better”. This year, the awards were worth a total of SEK 800,000 from Sparbanken Skåne. The top prize this year goes to Yvonne Lundberg Giwercman, professor at the F

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/innovative-ideas-and-pioneering-solutions-lund-university-celebrated - 2025-10-13

LU Innovation introduces a Pre-Seed Program within Life Science – funding up to 400 000 SEK per project. The program targets research projects in the life science sector with a commercial/innovation potential. To explore this potential, activities outside the scope of existing research project can be funded by the Exploratory Pre-Seed Program.Granted proposals receive funding from 100 000 up to 40

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/exploratory-pre-seed-program - 2025-10-13

Help us find the right people!  LU Innovation is the hub for innovation and commercialisation at Lund University. We work with the University's researchers and students to bring benefit and growth to society. Want to join us?We are now hiring:Business Developer - Life Science (in Swedish)Business Developer - Software, New media and Gaming (in Swedish)Apply before September 11. Best of luck!

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/we-are-hiring-business-developers - 2025-10-13

Help us find the right people!  LU Innovation is the hub for innovation and commercialisation at Lund University. We work with the University's researchers and students to bring benefit and growth to society. Want to join us?We are now hiring:Legal Advisor (in Swedish)Apply before September 16. Best of luck!  

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/we-are-hiring-legal-advisor - 2025-10-13

Health2B is a lean startup accelerator with a focus on connected health and offers an intensive 3 month global acceleration program. Now they are looking for entrepreneurs who have a strong team focus, plenty of passion and a purposeful product. Health 2B Accelerator program operate at SmiLe Incubator and is fully financed by the European Union (Business Incubation 2020).Apply by 25 September.Lear

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/health-2b-accelerator-apply-now - 2025-10-13

Lund University and Sparbanksstiftelsen Finn are awarding SEK 200 000 to the innovations of the future. The application deadline is 13 December. Do you have a really good idea? An idea which could go far and perhaps become a new product, a new service or a new working method in the future? Or an idea to make something that already exists so much better? Together with Sparbanksstiftelsen Finn, LU I

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/your-idea-future-innovation - 2025-10-13

StartUs, a European Startup & Innovation Network, presents the best student countries in Europe for founding your startup – and Lund University and VentureLab are on the list.  Read the article at StartUs Magazine websiteLearn more about VentureLab 

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/venturelab-among-best-europe-student-startups - 2025-10-13

Help us find the right person! LU Innovation is the hub for innovation and commercialisation at Lund University. We work with the University's researchers and students to bring benefit and growth to society. Want to join us?We are now hiring:Business Developer - Software and New Media​Apply before April 30. Best of luck!

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/we-are-hiring-business-developer - 2025-10-13

New horizons need new solutions. The Sten K Johnson Foundation provides financial assistance to those who choose a different path. Sten K Johnson Foundation wants to reach out to individuals, organizations and companies (with a link to Skåne) who have vision and drive to develop projects in education, culture, technology, medicine, entrepreneurship, literature and music.Welcome with your applicati

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/dare-think-differently - 2025-10-13

Help us find the right person! LU Innovation is the hub for innovation and commercialisation at Lund University. We work with the University's researchers and students to bring benefit and growth to society. Want to join us?We are now hiring:Trainee/Junior Business Developer (in Swedish)Apply before May 10. Best of luck!  

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/we-are-hiring-trainee - 2025-10-13

Leapfrogs gives financial support to students in order to give them the opportunity to test and develop their business ideas.  Do you have an idea which you've thought of for some time? Do you wish you could work full time on it to see if it could become something good? Or have you perhaps already worked on an idea but need more time and money to take it to the next level? We can help you! Leapfro

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/application-leapfogs-open - 2025-10-13

The new HPC resource at LUNARC, COSMOS, will be installed during the fall. Are you curious about what new possibilities this resource offers you as a researcher? Would you like to know how existing users take advantage of LUNARC resources? Do you have questions regarding the use of LUNARC services? Do you need help improving your scientific workflows? If you answer yes to any of these questions, p

https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/cosmos-dreams-presentation-cosmos-and-new-possibilities-12th-october-1330-1530 - 2025-10-13

One of the national services offered by NBIS/SciLifeLab is the Bioinformatics Peer review Support track (a.k.a. WABI), providing competences in large-scale data analysis for genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, Cryo-EM/ET and other technologies. This support has been enabled by funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, and is a part of the SciLifeLab & Wallenberg Natio

https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/apply-now-oct-6-bioinformatics-peer-review-support-track-now-including-cryo-emet - 2025-10-13