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Innovation support

Are you a researcher or lecturer at Stockholm University with research results or teaching materials that could be transformed into new products or services? SU Innovation can help you get started.

SU Innovation

SU Innovation consists of the Innovation Office, SU Ventures and Drivhuset in Stockholm at Stockholm University. Together, we work to support researchers in making their research useful and transforming research results with potential into innovation.

SU Innovation Day

The Innovation Office at Stockholm University organises Innovation Day each year, an inspiring meeting place where research, innovation and collaboration take centre stage. The day highlights current research-based innovations, successful examples and opportunities for funding and support. Innovation Day provides students, researchers and SU staff with the opportunity to build new connections, exchange experiences and gain inspiration to take the next step in their innovation journey.

How the Innovation Office can help you

The Innovation Office offers researchers comprehensive support and resources to turn research results into tangible innovations. By providing advice on patents and intellectual property rights, access to business development services and assistance in securing funding, we help researchers commercialise their ideas. In addition, we offer networking opportunities and mentoring programmes to strengthen researchers’ entrepreneurial skills and connect them with relevant partners. In this way, the Innovation Office contributes to increasing the impact of research and generating societal benefit.

If you have ideas or research results that you believe could form the basis of new innovations, you will often reach a stage where external resources are needed to move forward. In some cases, specific funding is linked to research projects for knowledge transfer or to explore how results can be disseminated more widely.

There are also dedicated calls from Swedish and international research funders aimed at supporting innovation development or collaborative projects between academia and various societal stakeholders, such as companies. The purpose of this type of funding is to ensure that results from academia benefit society.

As a university-based researcher in Sweden you have a unique right to the inventions that result from your research. This right if often referred to as "The Professors Privilege" (lärarundantaget). The privilege means that it is you, not your employer, that has the commercial rights to your inventions and the results of your research. This applies so long as you have not made a different agreement that contradicts this.

The Professors Privilege gives you an opportunity to decide what you want to do with the results of your research. But it also gives you the responsibility to find ways to ensure that your research result in societal impact, , something that is made explicit in the Higher Education Act. One way of utilizing research results is through innovation development and commercialization.

SU Ventures

SU Ventures (SU Holding) is part of SU Innovation and works closely with the Innovation Office to help ideas be realised and commercialised.

SU Ventures invests in business ideas and research results, with a focus on promoting innovation in areas such as life sciences, fintech, deep tech, sustainability solutions and materials research. They actively support researchers, lecturers, students, alumni and staff at Stockholm University in making their research useful.

With venture capital, extensive expertise and a strong network, SU Ventures takes innovations from the idea stage to established companies and onwards to both national and international markets. They specialise in supporting entrepreneurs connected to Stockholm University and invest early in companies with strong drive and significant potential.

Read more about SU Ventures here

Drivhuset Stockholm

Drivhuset in Stockholm is part of SU Innovation and helps students develop their skills so they can pursue any idea.

Drivhuset forms part of the value chain by strengthening students’ entrepreneurial abilities, developing business ideas and stimulating the creation of new companies and jobs. Their services and activities operate under the umbrella of SU Innovation, creating greater opportunities for collaboration so that, together, we can contribute to positive societal development.

Read more about Drivhuset in Stockholm here

Examples of innovation at SU

Watch how researchers Linda Laikre, Aji Mathew and Maria Lim Falk received support from the Innovation Office to take the next step in their research projects in the films below.

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Last updated: 2026-02-25

Source: Office for Research, Engagement and Innovation Services (REIS)