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Together we can find solutions for covid-19
Published Apr 02, 2020Do you want to work together with thousands of others to find new solutions to the challenges facing our society in the wake of the spread of covid-19? Join Hack the Crisis, a completely digital hacka...
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Five innovations for a sustainable fashion industry
GALY from Brazil uses biotechnology to create lab-grown cotton Published Apr 01, 2020From lab-grown cotton to fabrics created from protein DNA. These are the new winners of the international innovation challenge Global Change Award, where KTH is a partner.
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Support for ideas that ease the effects of covid-19
Picture from Pixabay by Darko Stojanovic Published Mar 30, 2020The power of innovation at KTH is stronger than ever as people turn their efforts towards easing the effects of the spread of Covid-19. Do you also want to help? Here’s how KTH Innovation can support ...
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Digital kickoff for 17 new KTH startups
17 new startup projects have joined the KTH Innovation pre-incubator program. Yesterday, they met for the first time in a digital kick-off Published Mar 18, 2020Seventeen teams have joined the KTH Innovation pre-incubator program. Yesterday, they met for the first time in a digital kick off. From a simulation platform for quantum mechanics to an app that help...
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The Brighter program helps startups succeed internationally
A few of the Brighter program participants in New York last fall. Back row from left to right: Jasmin Sabir from the startup Ellure, Meysam Sadegh, from Noteful, Emelie Jin and Alexander Jakobsen from Waves and Vegas Simbelis from Art Value. Front row from left to right: Selah Li from Ellure and Patarawan Ongkasuwan from Art Value. Photo: Lisa Bäckman Published Mar 04, 2020KTH Innovation's Brighter program brings startups to international innovation environments where they learn what it's like to operate on a global market. One of these startups is Waves, who participat...
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KTH behind 17 of Sweden's 100 most innovative research projects
Anna Kramers is Program Director of Mista SAMS, one of the projects on IVA's 100-list Published Mar 02, 2020Seventeen of the most innovative research projects in Sweden have KTH origins. Today, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) published their list of projects with large potential of c...
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Searching for solutions
KTH Innovation has just moved into the Red Cross's college premises on the KTH Campus. Lisa Ericsson looks forward to a new meeting place for innovation. (Photo: Håkan Lindgren) Published Feb 21, 2020Lisa Ericsson launched KTH Innovation almost 15 years ago. In this time she has seen new ideas take off and the Swedish innovation wonder emerge.Everything starts with a problem and the search for a s...
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When machines become their own doctors
Károly Szipka with the custom built testbed for sensors. Published Feb 12, 2020What if advanced production equipment such as industrial robots and machine tools could report its health status and deviations that could lead to quality loss and costly down-time in production. With...
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Cellulose technology enables swift scaling up of cotton recycling enterprise
The Re:newcell founders, from left, KTH Professor Mikael Lindström, Christofer Lindgren, Malcolm Norlin and KTH Professor Gunnar Henriksson Published Feb 12, 2020Ethanol production was the aim when two KTH Royal Institute of Technology professors first developed their method for breaking down plant cellulose about 10 years ago. Now the technology has enabled t...
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Algae to make cows more climate-friendly
This is the algae that can reduce cows' greenhouse gas emissions by up to 80 percent. Published Feb 10, 2020If cows were a country, they would rank 3rd in greenhouse gas emissions, but by feeding them a special type of algae you can reduce their emissions by up to 80 percent. Here is the KTH team setting th...
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3D-printed lipstick in 60 seconds
Ellure won the pitch competition in New York. Picture: SACCNY Published Jan 30, 2020Meet Ellure, the KTH startup that can print a lipstick in your perfect color in just a minute. Here’s the story of how they managed to land a New York office as part of the KTH Innovation Brighter Pro...
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KTH technology aims to drastically reduce CO2 emissions from the steel industry
Rutger Gyllenram and Peter Samuelsson won the KTH Innovation Challenge Going Climate Neutral for their idea FerroSilva, the Iron Forest. Published Jan 28, 2020With a method using gasified biomass, this team wants to reduce CO2 emissions from steel production with up to 100 times. - We hope our method can contribute to solving the problem of CO2 emissions ...
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The future of green batteries in development at KTH
Published Jan 24, 2020Imagine a future where batteries can be made from biomaterials, be charged within seconds, and are so clean they can simply be tossed in the trash when they reach the end of their lifespan. This is th...
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Three KTH Innovation programs you can apply to right now
Published Jan 21, 2020One program that gives you a mentor from a successful tech company, one that helps you find the potential impact in your research, and one that helps you sign your first customer. Right now, you can a...
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Mentorship that matters
The teams in Bicky Chakraborty Entrepreneur Program 2019 Published Dec 10, 2019“At KTH, we know how to develop great technology, but when it comes to the business side of things there are often a lot of puzzle pieces missing” says Károly Szipka, KTH researcher and founder of iPe...
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Join a startup at THS Armada
Imagilabs wants to make coding fun for teenage girls. They're one of the startups you'll meet at Armada. Published Nov 15, 2019We've teamed up with the organizers of THS Armada to arrange Startup Arena by KTH Innovation, your best chance this year to join one of Stockholm's most exciting startups!
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The Brighter Program takes off
Published Oct 25, 2019The ten first teams in the KTH Innovation Brighter Program are getting ready to leave Sweden, for an intense week overseas. Come along!
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From train trips to satellite propulsion: here are the latest startup projects from KTH
Amin Kazemzadeh is a researcher at the KTH Department of Protein Science. Together with Sandra Jernström from Karolinska Institute, he's founded Flexpenser. Photo by Anton Granh & Petter Elnerud Published Oct 16, 2019Yesterday, an exciting journey started for the fourteen new projects in the KTH Innovation pre-incubator program. Among the ideas are teams developing propulsion systems for satellites, networking app...
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KTH Innovation Challenge: Going climate neutral
Published Oct 14, 2019By 2045, Sweden aims to achieve negative net emissions of greenhouse gases. Are you a KTH researcher with an idea or research result that can help reduce emissions and reach climate neutrality? Then y...
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Researchers solve key challenge in creating smaller sensors
Atomically thin materials, so called 2D materials, could be the solution to build smaller sensors and electronic components that could for example be used in smartphones. Published Oct 11, 2019The technology in our ICT devices keeps getting smaller, and the question if we are approaching the limit of how small they can get keeps popping up. One solution can be spelled 2D materials, which co...
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