LiU Innovation

An idea gets its value only when it leaves the head.

LiU Innovation supports students, researchers and staff at Linköping University to develop ideas from early concept to finished product or service. Our innovation advisors provides counselling in areas such as start-up and financing. The service is free of charge for students, researchers and staff at LiU.

Contact our innovation advisers

Karin Ackerholm

Senior Coordinator

Ali Moshfegh

Senior Coordinator

Frida Niss

Senior Coordinator

Pilar Alvarez-Uría Tejero

Senior Coordinator

Arne Jacobsson

Senior Coordinator

Vlatko Milic

Assistant Professor

Charlotte Norrman

Senior Associate Professor

Offices

Head office

Linköping university

Campus Valla, Building Zenit

Student Innovation by LiU

Campus Valla, Studenthuset

25 March 2025

The entrepreneur who shaped his idea at LiU

Niclas Söör really got the most out of his student life at LiU. That’s what shaped his career. It was here that he got the idea for Dospace, a kind of office hotel with close to 1,400 members at eleven locations in Sweden.

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13 February 2024

Innovative semiconductor research from LiU to Silicon Valley

LiU alumnus and doctoral student Ivan Martinovic swapped Swedish winter for a warmer climate and headed for Silicon Valley. He represents the LEAD company Polar Light Technologies in Berkeley SkyDeck’s sought-after accelerator programme.

27 April 2023

He is the Entrepreneurial Teacher of the Year

On Leadership Day, in a car park somewhere between Zagreb and a sailing excursion on the Adriatic Sea, Jörgen Ahlberg received his Entrepreneurial Teacher of the Year award by video link.

Related businesses

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LiU Holding (LHG)

LiU Holding AB is the holding company at Linköping University with two main tasks – Innovation and Collaboration. From ideas and investment support for students, researchers and employees to active collaboration with the surrounding society.

LiU Invest

It is important that the knowledge at Linköping University becomes beneficial in the society. To commercialize the knowledge LiU Invest executes the investment activities at LiU and invests in research-related companies.

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LEAD - a business incubator

LEAD is a business incubator and owned by LiU Holding AB. The mission of LEAD's is to help companies with good ideas develop into expansive growth companies, and therefore works closely Linköping University, Mjärdevi- and Norrköping Science Park.

International Affairs and Collaborations Division (ISA)

International Affairs and Collaborations Division (ISA) supports faculties and departments in their work with internationalisation, research funding, commissioned education and collaboration.

LiU Innovation