To encourage business ideas
The government has established eight so-called innovation offices in Sweden located at chosen universities, among them Mid Sweden University.
Mid Sweden University has, together with Karlstad University, Linnaeus University and Örebro University, been granted to run a joint innovation office called Fyrklövern. The aim of the innovation office is to stimulate and support utilization and commercialization of research results from all Swedish universities and university colleges.
The other established innovation offices are located at Uppsala University, Lund University, Umeå University, Linköping University, Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Chalmers University of Technology.
To encourage business ideas
At Mid Sweden University, the innovation office Fyrklövern is run within the framework of MIUN Innovation, Mid Sweden University´s internal office for Innovation and Business.
The purpose of Fyrklövern is service innovations to encourage business ideas and to commercialize research. The following areas are prioritized: Forests as a resource, Lifestyle, health and adventure as well as Industrial technology and production systems.
A requieredkick-start
During the autumn of 2008, the build-up of an internal innovation-supporting activity, MIUN Innvoation, was initiated. To get a kick-start, the university chose to apply for funds from the EU Structural Funds, Objective 2.
The project was approved and this way, MIUN Innovation could start its activities during the spring of 2009. During the first period, focus was on finding the right team and finding a suitable office. Cooperation agreements with Åkroken Science Park and Business Incubator in Jämtland were concluded and working methods were developed together with these partners.
