The Life Science Growth House is the innovation unit for life sciences, health and technology at the University of Oslo. We help researchers and students to mature early-stage ideas.
NOK 2.1 million to innovative researchers and students at UiO
23 researcher projects and two student projects at the University of Oslo have been granted seed funding and student support from the Life Science Growth House. We are happy to see so many promising early-stage innovation ideas. We congratulate all who are involved in the projects and look forward to good collaboration!
The central administration at the University of Oslo has calls for seed funding and innovation grant. Application deadline: 15 August.
Watch the short story about our first months up and running
Duration: 2 min 19 sec with music, no talking
The School of Health Innovation is now a part of the Growth House
We are happy to announce that we will run the School of Health Innovation on behalf of UiO. Our director Hilde Nebb founded the school in 2016, and we look forward to continuing to develop this fruitful Nordic collaboration to provide researchers who have an innovative idea, with the knowledge and tools to develop the idea. So far more than 350 young health science researchers have received training in health innovation through the school.
Upcoming events
From research to production – Norway a home for the health industry
18 August, 16:30–18:00, Clarion Hotel Tyholmen, Arendal
In collaboration with LMI, Innovation Norway and Oslo Science City
The value creation potential in the health industry has received increased attention in Norway, and reports over the past five years show significant growth. We bring together the actors along the health industry value chain to discuss how we can realise even more of the potential for value creation in this sector.
Save the dates for innovation hangouts this fall
The new meeting place between academia and industry to facilitate networking and collaboration to put more research to use.
- 8 September: innovation hangout #3 in collaboration with The Life Science Cluster
Programme and registration form will be out in August - 10 November: innovation hangout #4 in collaboration with Norway Health Tech
Past events
Innovation on the agenda in Amsterdam
In mid-June, the Life Science Growth House attended the international innovation conference organised by the University Industry Innovation Network (UIIN). In the picture the Growth House at a sunny conference day: Morten Egeberg, Norunn Torheim, Nicolay Berard-Andersen and Ivar Bergland.
Read more about the main impression from the conference
For the Growth House, which is still in the start-up phase, it was very useful to learn more about how other universities conduct their innovation and entrepreneurship work and discuss various issues with universities and business from around the world. The Growth House itself is in the middle of a process to make a plan for strategic partnership between academia and industry. We will provide more information about this work when the plan is ready.
For the Growth House, it is particularly interesting to see that the support schemes the Growth House has already put in place, such as counselling, seed funds, internships for students and innovation meeting places for academia and industry, all have an important role in the work with innovation and entrepreneurship.
Still, there is a lot to do and lots of good advice on good practice. If we are to mention one thing in particular, it is to work on incentives to get researchers to engage in innovation, for example to make innovation meritorious in the same way as research and teaching upon promotion to permanent positions at the university. For this, we also need measurement parameters for the innovation work to make the system predictable for the researchers.
International student visit
Last week, Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation Per Morten Sandset hosted a get-together when students from Stanford University Knight-Hennessy Scholars visited UiO. Around 30 master's and PhD students from Stanford and UiO attended the event. Photo: Department of Communications and External Relations, UiO.