Newsletter June 2023
The UiO Growth House – UiO’s innovation unit for life sciences, health, and technology
The programme Science Impact 27 September is out – sign up!
The innovation conference Science Impact 2023 – tomorrow's solutions start today 27 September is a meeting place for academia, the institute sector, the public sector, start-ups and industry that are developing solutions within health and environment. Sessions on the brain, heartbeat, body, energy production, energy storage and planetary health with great speakers and networking opportunities. The conference is a part of Oslo Innovation Week 2023.
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How do we develop solutions to secure a sustainable health system that will have fewer resources in the future? How can we maintain a healthier population to start with? How do we develop solutions for a sustainable power system? How can technology contribute to new solutions?? How should academia and industry collaborate to increase the impact of science?
Call: The UiO innovation funds for researchers
Are you a researcher with an innovative idea for a new product, service, solution or technology based on your research, but need funding to develop the idea further? Check the UiO call for innovation funding. Researchers from all academic fields with an idea that has a potential for value creation are welcome to apply. UiO has dedicated NOK 5 million to this call, and there are two categories of funding:
- Funding of idea and concept phase of up to 50 000 NOK per project
- Funding of test and further development phase of up to 400 000 NOK per project
Application deadline: 31 August 2023
The UiO Growth House manages the application process on behalf of UiO. Please send an email to innovation@growthhouse.uio.no if you have any questions.
Meet us at Arendalsuka in August
Road map and value chains as important tools for realising the potential in the new Norwegian health industry
Norway aims to become leading in health industry. What does the government's road map for the health industry and the value chains we present at the meeting mean for the work going forward?
Organisers: The UiO Growth House, Aleap, The Life Science Cluster, LMI and the HelseOmsorg21 council
Time and place: 16 August at 10.00–11.30, Thon hotel Arendal
The need for more research, development and innovation in industry. How can academia contribute?
Norway has a lower proportion of R&D than our Nordic neighbours and countries we like to compare ourselves to, measured as a percentage of GDP. The proportion of R&D carried out and financed by industry is particularly low. The government aims to do something about this, and the goal is for R&D investment in the industry to reach two per cent of GDP by 2030. A strategy to achieve the goal is underway. The goal corresponds to almost a doubling in eight years – how can this be achieved?
Organizers: University of Oslo, University of Agder, NTNU, University of Stavanger, Kristiania University College, OsloMet, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Time and place: 17 , UiA-teltet, Arendal
- Read more about the event on arendalsuka.no and save the date (in Norwegian).
Successful completion of the Aleap boot camp for early-phase entrepreneurs
The UiO Growth House and the UiO and OUS technology transfer office Inven2 have been partners in running the pilot of the boot camp of the health incubator Aleap in Oslo Science Park for innovation projects and start-ups, including several projects in the Growth House portfolio. The boot camp is designed to help the attendees refine their understanding of their customers, unmet market need, and validate their product-market fit. The planning of the next boot camp starting October 2023 is already on its way.
Busy first year for the Student Association for Pharmaceutical Innovation
The Student Association for Pharmaceutical Innovation has been established with support from the UiO Growth House. The Growth House also funds a laboratory space in ShareLab in Oslo Science Park, where the students can learn methods that are requested by industry.
New face in the Growth House
Silje Katinka Jansen, senior innovation adviser
Silje holds a degree in human geography from UiO and has many years of experience with innovation and entrepreneurship from several research institutions and universities. She has worked as a lecturer and has been in charge of the bachelor study in entrepreneurship at BI as well as with technology transfer at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). Silje has experience from Innovation Norway and the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Now she comes from a position at the UiO management and support units, and her great motivation for joining the Growth House is to foster entrepreneurial thinking and social innovation among researchers and students.
