Meet some of Sweden's most prominent tech companies and learn how they innovate the future in this tech Safari arranged on the first day of Sveriges Innovationsriksdag. Read more about the different site visits below.
During 2023, Ideon Science Park are celebrating 40 years of fostering innovation and has become one of the largest science and business parks in Northern Europe. Almost 10 000 employees in 400+ companies work within walking distance of each other. The community is highly skilled with a diverse set of competencies within 5G, IoT, AI, Cleantech, robotics, biomedicine, image recognition, connectivity, embedded systems and much more. Read more.
The European Spallation Source is under construction on the outskirts of Lund. The facility's unique capabilities will both greatly exceed and complement those of today's leading neutron sources, enabling new opportunities for researchers across the spectrum of scientific discovery, including materials and life sciences, energy, environmental technology, cultural heritage and fundamental physics. Read more.
MAX IV Laboratory is a synchrotron laboratory that has operated as a user facility since 2016. MAX IV offers access to 16 beamlines that provide modern X-ray spectroscopy, scattering/diffraction, and imaging techniques to contribute to solving scientific questions in a wide range of areas and are open to academia, research institutes, industry, and government agencies worldwide through the user access programs. Read more.
Welcome to Tetra Pak, the world’s leading food processing and packaging solutions company with head office in Lund. You will visit the packaging exhibition room where more than two hundred packages are displayed. Tetra Pak remains focused on developing the solutions and technologies needed to help ensure access to safe food for hundreds of millions of people across the world – in a way that protects what’s good, protecting food, people and the planet. Read more.
In Lund, Volvo Cars is represented with a research and development office. Around 150 employees work here with questions in machine learning, new technologies, android and infotainment. The office in Lund is expanding and is an internal competence center in agile software development. Read more.
Alfa Laval invites you the Headquarters in Lund - the world’s largest production site for plate heat exchangers vital for increasing energy-efficiency. Alfa Laval is a leading global provider of first-rate products in the areas of heat transfer, separation and fluid handling. With these as its base, Alfa Laval aims to help enhance the productivity and competitiveness of its customers in various industries throughout the world. Read more.
Medicon Village Science Park is a meeting point for researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs focusing on life science. SmiLe is a non-profit business Incubator offering business coaching, international investor network, and a dynamic community, as well as well-equipped laboratories which is unique of its kind in Sweden. Together SmiLe and Medicon Village acts as both a platform and catalyst for its members and houses the entire health chain from prevention and diagnostics to treatment and care. The members are mainly active within cancer, diabetes, respiratory and lung diseases as well as inflammatory diseases. Read more.
Disruptive thinking does not happen on demand. This is the reason why the Ericsson Garage provides innovators and start-ups worldwide with the space to create ground-breaking solutions to real industry problems. Ericsson Garage is an open innovation platform, inspired by lean startup methodology, that works with both internal and external incubator projects. Read more.
Learn more about this decentralized energy system of the future: a scalable and energy-efficient solution that can produce all necessary heating and cooling in one system. Using unique technology built on harnessing the power of low temperatures, distributed heat pumps, intermittent renewable energy and storage, E.ON ectogrid™ is the solution that can help us reach zero emission levels – in a city block, surrounding area or even an entire city. Read more.
Cognibotics put years of research to practical use in new lightweight robot designs with record breaking reach, speed and precision. Through active research in advanced robotics, they turn technical advancements in robot accuracy, calibration and kinematics into new automation solutions, helping customers improve productivity, quality and cost efficiency. Read more.
BrainLit, from Lund, has mastered the science of simulating the important aspects of daylight indoors for the health and wellbeing of people. The company was founded in 2012 by Tord Wingren, one of the inventors of Bluetooth technology. To date, the company has established BioCentric Lighting environments for customers with thousands of employees all over the world. Read more.
EVolutionRoad is a project assigned by the Swedish Transport Administration to build a pioneering test and demonstration site with Elonroad’s unique electric road system in the city of Lund. The purpose is to contribute to increasing knowledge about electric roads as part of the future fossil-free transport system. Read more.
X-Lab is a makerspace at LTH, Lund University. The lab is an open, easily accessible and fun place to be if you want to create and innovate. At X-Lab you are encouraged to explore and convert the unknown to your expertise. The idea is to bring together people with different knowledge, new contacts and new ideas and hopefully playful work can lead to a prototype. Read more.
Axis is the industry leader in video surveillance, developing innovative network solutions that improve security and business performance. A visit to the Axis Experience Center in Lund is a unique opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes and look at their latest technologies. Axis was founded in 1984 and was one of the first companies in Ideon Science Park. Today they are around 4,000 employees in over 50 countries. Read more.