MaU Innovation
MaU Innovation works to ensure that knowledge from Malmö University makes a difference and improves our society. Together with employees and students, we transform research results and ideas into products, methods, processes and services that create value and contribute to solutions to the societal challenges of our time.
Malmö University is an open, innovative, and cross-border university that tackles complex issues and societal challenges. Through research-based knowledge, critical reflection and action, Malmö University contributes to a more sustainable and equal society. MaU Innovation’s contribution is to turn knowledge into societal benefit, to ensure that research results and ideas are given the best prerequisites to be used in society and contribute to a better future.
Innovation – more than just new ideas
MaU Innovation supports employees and students at Malmö University, who want to develop their ideas or create societal benefit with their research. Our support is designed to lead to tangible results, whether it’s a societal benefit, social change, business benefit or intellectual property rights.
Our overall goal is to contribute to a more sustainable and equal society where we, in collaboration with other societal actors, create and share knowledge to understand, explain and develop our society. To address today’s complex societal challenges, we need to draw on different perspectives and competencies and develop solutions together. Sustainability, whether social, environmental, or economic, is, therefore, one of the cornerstones of the processes and methods we develop and create at MaU Innovation.
Our governmental mission
In 2018, Malmö University was given the opportunity to set up an Innovation Office. The Innovation Office is aimed at researchers, students, and other employees with the task of increasing the utilization of research-based knowledge. The government’s motivation for establishing Innovation Offices at Swedish universities is to make the utilization of research more efficient and thus contribute to creating benefits for society.
At Malmö University, MaU Innovation is responsible for carrying out the government’s Innovation Office mission.
Storm – a creative meeting point
Storm Innovation Hub is part of MaU Innovation and aims to inspire and promote collaboration, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship at Malmö University. It is an arena that enables knowledge sharing, networking, collaborations and building capacity for utilization.
Storm’s spaces are in the Gäddan building on Universitetsholmen and can be booked free of charge by everyone at Malmö University.