Note that we have changed our name to UiO Growth House. Articles written before 2023 use the old name Life Science Growth House.
The Life Science Growth House is an open door with low-threshold services for researchers and students. Please read about our services below and then send an e-mail to innovation@lifesciencegrowthhouse.uio.no. Requests are read continuously by our innovation advisers. They will normally get back to you within two working days. All employees in the growth house have a duty of confidentiality.
Innovation services
Tailored counselling
When you contact us, our innovation advisers will give you counselling based on your needs.
For example
- assess the maturity and relevance of your idea; whether counselling from mentors or others can be useful for the project; your thoughts on the way forward and more
- whether your project can benefit from seed funding from us, and how the funding might be used
- whether you need support to apply for external funding to mature your idea
- whether you may benefit from collaborating with others in our innovation ecosystem. We will help you get in touch with relevant businesses and other actors that your project may benefit from.
- which of our meeting places, seminars and competence courses are useful for you to attend
Funding
Student funding
We may reimburse costs up to 10 000 NOK for innovation activities for students.
Seed funding I – for researchers and students
Up to 50 000 NOK, may be used on for example
? consulting assistance ? expenses for key experiments to get ahead with the idea ? purchase of services externally/ internally for experiments/analyses etc. ? purchase of services and courses from partners in our innovation ecosystem ? mentor (not mandatory), the Life Science Growth House may find a suitable mentor
Seed funding II – for researchers and students
Up to 200 000 NOK, may be used on for example
? the services mentioned for seed funding I ? mentor (mandatory), the Life Science Growth House will find a suitable mentor for you
Innovation mentor programme for researchers
We believe that the development of innovation projects best takes place in collaboration with people who have knowledge, experience, and networks within your area. The Life Science Growth House will find a suitable mentor for you. You may get a mentor without being allocated seed funding.
Internship programme for students
Together with student associations, we facilitate meetings between life science students and companies which can offer summer jobs. In 2022 we also cover fifty percent of the salary for a certain number of students in small and medium-sized companies. The deadline for attending the internship programme in 2022 has passed. Information about how you may attend the programme in 2023, will be out fall 2022.
Meeting places
We will arrange innovation hangouts four times per year. This is an informal meeting place where students and researchers from UiO may interact with actors from the public sector, hospitals, companies, mentors, business clusters and incubators in our innovation ecosystem. We will offer inspirational talks, talks from role models, matchmaking, food and beverage and mingling.
We have planned the following hangouts spring 2022 – save the dates!
- 21 April.: Innovation hangout #1in collaboration with Oslo Cancer Cluster
- 9 June: Innovation hangout #2 in collaboration with LMI
In the fall 2022 we will host innovation hangout #3 in collaboration with The Life Science Cluster and innovation hangout #4 in collaboration with Norway Health Tech.
Other meeting places and courses are developed when needed.
The innovation process and interaction with the innovation ecosystem
The Life Science Growth House interacts with the entire innovation ecosystem, including the technology transfer office Inven2, business clusters, companies, and incubators. We will utilize the expertise of the innovation ecosystem in the right way at the right time to help you in the best possible way to mature your innovation ideas so that you can move forward in the innovation process.
