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Innovation Office

Do you have an idea – or a feeling that something should be explored? We help you find out what it can become.

Together with us at the Innovation Office, you’ll find a safe and curious space to think out loud, test ideas, and explore possibilities. You don’t need to have a finished concept – it’s enough that you’re curious, see something you’d like to change, or wonder how far your thought can go. We help you understand the potential, test its viability, and create a direction forward, without you having to pause what matters in your everyday life.

With us, you’ll get support to:

  • Explore whether your idea or research result solves a real problem
  • Test hypotheses and gather evidence, data, and insights
  • Understand your target audience, value, and impact
  • Protect and manage rights - in the right way
  • Create the basis for funding and investment
  • Find your role in innovation – even if you don’t have your own idea yet

We make the innovation process more transparent, less complicated, and easier to manage – and you keep control and ownership. You bring knowledge and drive; we add methodology, analysis, structure, and experience. Together, we create movement.

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Life Science Umeå highlighted in documentary project

A documentary project about innovative initiatives across Europe highlights Life Science in Umeå.

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SOLH at KBC Days 2024

SOLH participated in this year’s KBC Days with a presentation and at the event expo.

About us

Innovation Office is for you who are a researcher, doctoral student, student, or employee at Umeå University and want to explore an idea, a research result, or even just a thought you believe can make a difference. We are the university’s innovation support, helping ideas find their shape, their value, and their way forward.

We work closely with you as the innovator. You know the subject, the research, or the need – we contribute methodology, analysis, structure, and experience. Together, we find out what the idea can become, test what holds, and identify the next step that suits you best.

Our mission is both to create societal benefit and to help ideas grow into solutions, services, or companies. In short: we make it easier to take the first step and safer to take the next.