GU Ventures manage several strategic projects to develop and strengthen our own core business as well as the overall environement around us and our companies. Our projects focus on areas such as sustainability, digitalisation, internationalization, industry collaboration and quality improvment. Furthermore we are highly focused on strenghening our domain expertise within specific areas of interest, as presented below.
Since 2013 GU Ventures run STAR, a project focused on sustainable growth in western Sweden. The main objective is to work with a strong focus on sustainability and to contribute to a resilient society through social inclusion and reduced climate change.
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brings together eight incubators in western Sweden, aiming to improve efficiency and create more opportunities for collaboration to make new businesses to grow.
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Within the energo initiative and collaboration, we have joined forces with Chalmers Ventures and the #greenups network, so both johanneberg science park and gu ventures were invited to welcome new companies and work together with chalmers ventures and their companies.
OligoNova, a center for Research of therapeutic oligonucleotides, lead by prof. claes gustafsson, gave us the task to analyse and develop new functions for the center.
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A preparational project for the CCRM NORDic initiative to build process development and clinical-stage facilities in support of the “ATMP” sector for the Nordic region, financed by Swelife and vgr.
We work together with Some of The eco-system players in our region to replace talent that want to find new ways, lead by Business Region Gothenburg.
KAF is in Swedish short for Pioneering Pathways for Research to Innovation and aims to develop a model for a new way to stimulate the emergence of more research-based innovations that otherwise would not have come to light. It will involve offering researchers, who do not want to commercialize, the option to transfer the rights to their IP and waive their teacher's exemption. In this way, holding companies and their associated universities with their respective innovation offices intend to bring forth more commercially viable business ideas based on research findings. When such a system is in place, it is expected to contribute significantly to enhancing Swedish innovation capabilities.
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