Business Innovation Day

Take a chance and let some of the best researchers take on your business biggest challenge. Report a challenge that your organization is facing, and discuss solutions with the Mid Sweden University's leading experts. It may for example be a product that needs to be developed, a new service or a working method that needs to be streamlined. A unique opportunity for industry and researchers to meet, exchange knowledge and ideas.

How to apply a business challenge

To be able to match your business challenge with the right researchers, we want you register your interest in advance. A description of the challenge along with brief background information sent to Mid Sweden University who then match up your challenge with the best researchers in the field. Here are some examples of how business challenges might look like:

How can our company provide more detailed information on when we deliver our packages to our customers?
To improve our manufacturing process, we need to early identify damage and abrasion on selected components or machine parts, what kind of technologies could be used?
Our company offers a dust-repellent paper that we also would like to make fireproof, what preconditions are there?

On the day of the meeting

Before the day of the meeting the challenges are matched together with appropriate researchers in the field in order to create the best possible conditions to find the great solutions to your challenges. During the meeting, researchers and representatives from your company, meet for one hour to discuss possible solutions. The group consists of 4-10 people with researchers, business representatives and a process leader that is responsible to bring the discussion forward and document it. The workshop is not open to anyone else to participate in. After the workshop, there is time for the participants to mingle with other companies or to follow up the discussion with the researchers.

The result

One month after the Business Innovation Day, you get access to the documentation that include the conclusions, suggestions for the next step and offer you a follow-up meeting. Mid Sweden University may offers support to kick-start a research project or other forms of cooperation in order to help you to solve your challenges and create new innovation.

What is the value for the company?

It's your questions or challenges that are in focus of the Business Innovation Day. Leading researchers in the field will propose solutions, new approaches, ideas, scientific methods and techniques that are invaluable for further development. You also get access to unique expertise through national and international research networks. Mid Sweden University wants to give you a greater understanding of the opportunities for innovation available through partnerships, as well as contract research and discuss financing options.

Confidentiality

Of course your company will have full confidentiality regarding your challenge. The business challenge is conducted in a private room with only the company and the researchers present. NDA/confidentiality agreement is prepared if needed and the ownership of new results or ideas developed within Business Innovation day addressed to the company.