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Taking Innovations to Barcelona!
The West Swedish Incubators, a consortium of incubators in the Västra Götaland region, is now in in Barcelona together with Business Region Gothenburg and other organisations. The trip includes visits to innovation hubs, companies and investors.
Annica Grimberg Lignell, Head of Business Development of the Accelerator at Sahlgrenska Science Park shares her thoughts on the visit to Barcelona.
- “We need to shorten the distance to other startup ecosystems, share insights and leverage on each other’s strengths. A part of our expectation is to meet Spanish startup ecosystems and investors to generate traction for the West Swedish thriving startup scene.”
Barcelona day 1 Takeaways:
✔ Financial Times Southern Europe has named Catalonia "Best region for foreign investments".
✔Barcelona and Catalonia is Spain's most innovative city with hubs in everything from mobility, energy and health tech.
✔The city attracts talent in, among other things, tech and programming, many become co-founders of startups.
✔ Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia are the three biggest innovation hubs of which Barcelona attracts the most foreign capital.
✔ There are several actors in the city who have captured the strong growth climate. One of them is Norrsken, which has high ambitions to become "the place to be" for future unicorns.
Follow the incubators the next coming days for updates and take aways:
Innovatum Startup | Brewhouse Inkubator | Sahlgrenska Science Park |
Founders Loft | Borås INK | GU Ventures | Business Region Göteborg
About West Swedish Incubators
The West Swedish Incubators is a consortium of incubators in the Västra Götaland region consisting of GU Ventures, Chalmers Ventures, Inkubatorn i Borås, Founders Loft, Innovatum Science Park, Science Park Skövde, Brewhouse and Sahlgrenska Science Park.
We commercialize and utilize research and ideas from the region's educational institutions, the business community and the rest of the society. The incubators have been in operation for between 15-25 years and have since the start supported and launched over 1 600 new projects and companies that together have attracted almost 10 billion in capital.
Today, the incubators have about 200 new projects and companies, which they are actively working to develop into growth companies in the region.
The project is financed by the European Regional Development Fund, Region Västra Götaland and the University of Gothenburg.
Innovatum Startup | Brewhouse Inkubator | Sahlgrenska Science Park | Founders Loft | Borås INK | GU Ventures | Chalmers Ventures | Science Park Skövde
More about West Swedish Incubators https://westswedishincubators.se/
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GU Ventures bygger företag av banbrytande idéer som kan forma en bättre morgondag och är topprankad av UBI Global Index som en av världens 20 ledande universitetsdrivna inkubatorer. Vi finansierar och utvecklar nya innovativa affärsidéer med kopplingar till Göteborgs universitet, som är ett av norra Europas största universitet. Vårt uppdrag är att kommersialisera dessa innovationer, så att det leder till användning av forskning och kompetens, förnyelse av näringslivet, skapande av jobb och hållbar tillväxt. Vårt passionerade team av företagsbyggare, finansexperter, IP och juridisk talang supporterar dedikerat våra företag och säkerställer deras framgång.
Sedan startpunkten 1995 har GU Ventures utvecklat över 240 nya affärsidéer, varav 140 bedriver verksamhet idag och varav 15 är listade. Vår portfölj består av 80-tal innehav och ett antal projekt.
I den senaste undersökningen matchar 87% av företagen de globala hållbarhetsmål som ställts av FN. GU Ventures ägs helt av den svenska staten och förvaltas av Göteborgs universitet. Läs gärna mer på: www.guventures.com.
