Innovation @BTH Support

Mission

BTH is and desires to be a strong institution focusing on knowledge and competence involving students, researchers and staff. The knowledge created and the insights gained often have strong potential for being applied and solving problems outside BTH.

The mission for Innovation @BTH Support is to help students, researches and staff to evolve their knowledge further and make it into an innovation. Hopefully this could spark the entrepreneurship in oneself.

We approach this through events where we provide tools for innovation, coaching sessions and general support through different channels. We are advocating innovation to be a part of the everyday life at BTH.

Process for Innovation

There are many ways to end up with an innovation and starting the entrepreneurial track, but still, there are some common steps.

The first step is to acknowledge the challenge or/and a need statement that your innovation might address.

When the need is established, your way of solving this problem should be described in an attractive way with clear value for the intended user or customer. Your innovation should be the best solution (from a number of perspectives) to the problem at hand.

This means that you have a market that would like to buy your product instead of your competitors’ option.

Supporting your initiatives

Innovation @BTH Support can provide you financial support, helpful services, coaching, connections and strategies. Our support is open for all students, staff and researchers connected to BTH.

Typical support that has been provided yet is:

Initial testing in small scale, prototyping and a first market approach
Legal support for setting up a co-owner agreement with the project parties settling Intellectual Property Rights
Support and coaching for patenting
Business development and coaching

Contact us

Kennet Henningsson
Universitetsadjunkt

Andreas Larsson
Docent

Supported ideas

Viridi Siluett - made-to-measure & on-demand pants

Test support from BTH along with verification support from IKS. Resulting in travels, connections and sustainable business relations along with the possibility to test the market, all in relations to their market strategy.

Picture analysis - 3D detection

Verification support from IKS resulted in a successful patent application rewarding professors from BTH with a patent as a basis for further business development and ideation around their innovation.

Servata Joul - mapping and saving energy

Idea focused on mapping idling equipment in home or industry setting and identifying potential energy savings as well as managing the shutdown of the equipment.

Oxygen level algorithm

Verification support from IKS resulted in a successful patent application. The idea makes safe calculations for remaining oxygen levels in rebreather equipment.

Seroponics

Supported with equipment and 3D printing for producing the initial prototypes for evaluation and market test. Facilitating growing veggies in your home efficiently.

Innovation Support