Do you have an idea or life science application with business potential? We recommend that you get professional support as soon as possible. Remember that publishing your scientific results could negatively affect your chance of attaining a patent. Your first point of contact might be:
Uminova Innovation
www.uminovainnovation.se
Uminova Innovation invests in business ideas based on academic knowledge and the potential for growth. Our task is to provide entrepreneurs with the right conditions and build growing companies. You have the ideas, motivation and knowledge. We supply the resources and the network in a proven process for business development. This way, your business idea grows faster and more securely. Throughout the process, you will have a specially selected business coach to help develop your business concept. The coaching is free of charge and we treat your ideas with the strictest confidentiality.
Umeå Biotech Incubator
www.ubi.se
The Umeå Biotech Incubator is an entity that can help you push forward your ideas with as much of the ingredients you require as possible. It will provide the right environment (including lab facilities) and expert advice to help your commercial idea achieve success where possible. The idea is to have a gathering of diverse projects and to enable interaction between projects. So if you are an organic chemist making a biologically active recombinant protein and you require extensive expertise in cell biology and cell culture—that cell biologist may be next door.
