Chalmers not only stands for excellence in
research and education, we also create meeting places for academia,
society and industry. In close cooperation, we establish the conditions
for sustainable development, both locally and globally.
It is not enough to simply train competent engineers and achieve good research results. We must also stimulate entrepreneurs and develop ideas
in order for society and enterprise to grow.
Chalmers has an innovation
system that helps researchers to discover opportunities for development
within their own research, convert ideas into business and take care of
patents and other immaterial rights. Strategic cooperation agreements
strengthen ties to our industrial partners. We also want to help
decision makers by providing reliable and easy-to-grasp data in order to
facilitate the change to a sustainable society. We have also been instrumental in founding
three science parks, areas of focus where industry market knowledge meets desire for innovation and academic expertise.
We take responsibility for the continuous training of qualified personnel, i.e. by offering
specially tailored education (external website) of professionals in collaboration with industry and society. In fact, we have 3000 annual participants in professional commissioned education.
We
partner on high technology readiness level,conducting assignments related to product, process and method development as well as governmental investigations.
According to the Leiden Ranking (external website), which measures universities’ scientific impact and collaboration, we are outstanding in regards to collaboration with industry.
Our two business incubators are consistently ranked top ten among university-associated incubators world wide, according to the UBI Index. To reinforce, up-scale and further strengthen the entrepreneurial spirit across the university, we recently consolidated all venture creation activities within
one subsidiary company, Chalmers Ventures. The goal is to become even better. And, in the long run, to have all students gain valuable entrepreneurial experience during their studies.