The NABC model can help you define your idea and think through what really makes the idea valuable to your potential customers. It is also an excellent tool to use when preparing a presentation, or a pitch. The model was developed at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). N stands for need, A stands for approach, B stands for benefit, and C stands for competition. If you do it for the first time,

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/our-services/tips-inspiration/nabc-how-test-your-idea - 2025-05-13

Homepal is a data platform that collects data that is otherwise scattered in various systems and makes it useful so that real estate companies can get the maximum value from the world's largest asset.The company was founded in 2018 by students from Lund University and spent its first year in VentureLab’s incubator at Ideon. Homepal's website    Homepal Develops a data platform for municipal and co

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 Fundamental to the entire IT explosion is the miniaturization that enabled an explosive increase in functionality with a reduced cost and power consumption. Moore's law describes the speed of this miniaturization in a way that has been valid since the mid sixties. However, we are now approaching a limit for the development with resolutions on individual atoms, where 10 nm corresponds to about 20

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 Alzheimer’s disease causes great suffering for patients and relatives and is among the costliest diseases for society. There is still no cure.The researchers behind Cell Invent has a long and excellent track record in longitudinal dementia research and represent a unique combined expertise in preclinical and clinical Alzheimer’s disease.Cell Invent offers a new way to find Alzheimer’s cures by de

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/cell-invent - 2025-05-13

 Aligned Bio's mission is to offer unique, customizable sensor platforms with a superior limit of detection to customers at viable costs. Through patented technology and methods, Aligned Bio is able to produce a variety of nanowire material types and dimensions, organize and align the nanowires on platforms/substrate of various kinds, and enable nanowires to detect single molecules at an order of

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/aligned-bio - 2025-05-13

 The inspiration to start Bionamic AB came from seeing how dramatically software designed with the right combination of smart algorithms and simple user interface, great visualizations and automation increases the speed and accuracy of capable researchers.Bionamic offers applications for handling and analyzing antibody discovery related data. Bionamic's platform is completely modular and can be ta

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Monthly seminars for researchers across the university, as well as our collaboration partners in industry and other institutes, to come together. Each month, LUBIRC holds a breakfast seminar on a different topic of interest to our collaboration network. This includes new science and research in our areas of interest, but also talks by industry representatives, or on wider aspects of sustainability

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/events/lubirc-breakfast-seminars - 2025-05-13

Lund University Biobased Industry Center brings together researchers leading the way in developing the knowledge and design needed for biobased alternatives to traditional industrial products and processes. LUBIRC was founded at the beginning of 2014 by scientists at Lund University with the support of the University Board and Region Skåne. Since 2017, LUBIRC has been the university's Thematic Col

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LUBIRC is led by a management board, consisting of ten scientists across three different faculties, and one project leader from the Department of Research, Collaboration, and Innovation. The members of the board sit for terms of one year at a time. Furthermore, LUBIRC has an Advisory Board consisting of representatives from Region Skåne, IKEM, Lund Municipality, and LTH. Management Board  Josefin

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/about-lubirc/organisation - 2025-05-13

Lund University has a large team of researchers focusing on increasing our knowledge of how to create environmentally friendly chemicals, plastics, specific materials, fuel and energy sources from raw biological materials (biomass). Our hope is that our knowledge, which is based on several decades of both fundamental, and more applied research in collaboration with industry, will contribute to a s

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/biobased-industry - 2025-05-13

Biofuels are one of the many different types of products that can be made in biorefineries. There is a great need for society to decrease our reliance on fossil fuels (from, for example, coal or natural gas) in order to reduce the quantity of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere, and the use of biofuels is one opportunity to do so. Producing biofuels can be the main process of a biorefinery,

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/biobased-industry/biofuels - 2025-05-13

A refinery is a factory where raw materials are transformed into useable products such as chemicals. Biorefineries perform the same role, but with biological raw material (biomass) such as plants or microorganisms instead of traditional chemicals. Biomass is a renewable source of raw material, as we can always grow more, unlike commonly used fossil fuels. In order to use biomass, the chemical reac

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/biobased-industry/biorefineries - 2025-05-13

The expression “industrial biotechnology” is used to describe the complete industrial process that uses biobased raw materials to produce chemicals, fuels, and products with help of primarily biotechnological methods. It is often called “white biotechnology” to distinguish it from those companies in biotechnology attempting to make pharmaceutical products from biobased sources, which is referred t

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About LUBIRC Read about how we can collaborate Our Research Industrial Biobased Researchers at Lund University Calendar Link to RSS More events What is biobased industry? LUBIRC was founded at the beginning of 2014 by scientists at Lund University with support from the Lund University board and Region Skåne. At LUBIRC, we collect together researchers with wide-ranging knowledge of biobased product

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Research in areas related to the bioeconomy at Lund University The figure below illustrates the various areas of research that are involved in the different steps needed to develop a new product or process from renewable resources. More details on each can be found by clicking on the relevant boxes below, or via the menu on the left.        

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Sweden has all the right ingredients, both technically as well as in the form of available natural resources, to create a competitive bioeconomy with complex biorefineries and production of green chemicals. There are, however, many other important aspects that affect the development of a bioeconomy. These can be political decisions and regulations, corporate culture, the research climate, and how

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/summary-research/bioeconomy - 2025-05-13

Producing chemicals and materials from biomass instead of fossil resources is a much more complicated process. The biomass itself contains many different substances and, in order to use it in optimally, its composition needs to be analyzed and fractionated. Biomass can originate from several different sources such as crops, or waste from agriculture and the forestry industry. It can also be genera

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Transforming biobased resources into the desired products requires customized processes and technological solutions. The processes need to successfully integrate knowledge about the properties of both the resource used and the biocatalyst, ensuring that reasonable yields and high levels of productivity will be produced and thus good process economy. The methods of transformation will vary dependin

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/summary-research/bioprocess-technology - 2025-05-13

Enzymes used for industrial catalysis (also called biocatalysts) have to meet a great number of requirements. They originate from living organisms, usually microorganisms, and they have a basic function to transform specific biological substances inside that organism, so that the transformed molecules can be used in metabolism. To be used industrially they must become robust enough to tolerate an

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/summary-research/enzymatic-catalysis - 2025-05-13

The biomass raw material consists of a large number of different chemical compounds – both small molecules and large (macro)molecules. The main macromolecules are cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, but there can also be a considerable fraction of lipids. Cellulose and hemicellulose are carbohydrates (although variously modified in hemicellulose), while lignin is a complex macromolecule composed

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/summary-research/pre-treatment - 2025-05-13