The UiO Growth House – UiO’s innovation unit for life sciences, health, and technology
Sign up for Impact Breakfast on sensors in future healthcare 24 May
In collaboration with SINTEF and Oslo Science Park, the UiO Growth House invites you to a breakfast seminar. Meet researchers from the University of Oslo, Oslo University Hospital and SINTEF as well as start-ups from the health incubator Aleap that are developing new sensor solutions for future healthcare.
Entrepreneurship in healthcare: Apply for admission to the School of Health Innovation course 2 fall 2023
Learn from experienced entrepreneurs, leaders and academics how to develop your own research idea into a company. The three best project pitches will receive a money award at the end of the course.
Dates: 3 modules à 2–3 days each from September to November
Location: BI and Oslo Science Park, Oslo
Who can apply?: PhDs, postdocs, young clinicians and young professors who already have an idea for a start-up (it can be early stage). In total 40 places for participants from Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
Application deadline: 18 June
Save 27 September for Science Impact 2023
The innovation conference Science Impact 2023 Science Impact 2023 – tomorrow's solutions start today is a part of Oslo Innovation Week.
Future challenges within health and environment require innovative solutions with digital tools as an integral part. We zoom in on the human body and dive into energy production and storage to give you cutting-edge research and development from the University of Oslo, Oslo University Hospital, SINTEF, start-ups from the innovation ecosystem in Oslo and companies.
Growth House contribution to international book on Design Thinking
Innovation adviser in the UiO Growth House Beate Rygg Johnsen has contributed with the chapter Design Thinking Toolkit for Healthcare Innovation in the book Design Thinking in Healthcare from Springer Verlag.
The book shows students, health personnel and others how they can use Design Thinking to develop better products and services for the health service.
The Growth House innovation services presented at international conference
The UiO Growth House participated at the international University Industry Innovation Network (UIIN) conference in Budapest in May. The participants shared their experience with running innovation services and partnerships between academia and industry. The Growth House and innovation adviser Nicolay Berard-Andersen presented the work on developing low-threshold innovation services for researchers and students.
Breakfast seminar 19 June: EU's new Code of practice on standardization for researchers
The Growth House recently met with Standards Norway to see whether their work with standardization can be useful for the work we do in guiding researchers in the innovation process. As a follow-up to this, we would like to draw attention to their breakfast seminar on 19 June in collaboration with among others the Research Council of Norway. The organisers write: To those of you who are involved in research and development in Horizon Europe or other research projects. Standardization is becoming more and more important, and the EU has launched its Code of Practice on standardization for researchers. To what extent is research represented in standardization projects and how can standardization benefit research projects? Standards can be a way of disseminating the research results to provide increased benefit for society and industry.
Arendalsuka 16 August: Road map and value chains for the health industry on the agenda
The UiO Growth House, Aleap, The Life Science Cluster, LMI and the HelseOmsorg21 council are organising a meeting on road map and value chains as important tools for realising the potential in the new Norwegian health industry at Thon hotel Arendal on 16 August at 10.00–11.30.
Laid down the Life Science Building foundation stone
On 4 May Minister of Research and Higher Education Ola Borten Moe and Minister of Health and Care Services Ingvild Kjerkol laid down the foundation stone for the Life Science Building – Norway's most modern, largest and most important building for research and innovation in chemistry, pharmacy, biosciences, medicine and life sciences that will house departments from the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital. The building will be ready in 2026.
The UiO Growth House is among the units that will move into the building. The Growth House innovation director Hilde Nebb was present at the foundation stone ceremony together with the deans of our owner faculties Solveig Kristensen, The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Hanne Flinstad Harbo, The Faculty of Medicine.
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