Ideation is a creative process for generating ideas, lots of ideas. It can help you to think outside-the-box, and is an essential part of the design process. First of all, you need to come up with a problem or challenge that you want to solve. Look around - what problems do you or people in your surroundings encounter? When you've located this and narrowed the problem down, you need some technique

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/ideation-increase-innovation-potential - 2025-08-29

Gedea Biotech secures €1.3 million (14 MSEK) to advance its antibiotic-free vaginal infection treatment pHyph towards market launch. Gedea Biotech, part of LU Holding’s portfolio, announced in May that it has raised €1.3 million (14 MSEK) for additional development activities of their product pHyph for antibiotic-free treatment of vaginal infections. The funds will be used for: • An ongoing proof-

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/gedea-biotech-secures-eu13-million - 2025-08-29

Petter Pilesjö, Abdulghani Hasan, and Andreas Persson were tired of the feeling of writing articles and presenting at conferences without anything happening. Learn how they went from research results to making use of their findings by starting the company PluvioFlow. Petter Pilsjö is a Professor at Lund University Centre for Geographical Information Systems (GIS Centre), as well as a founder of Pl

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/they-started-company-spread-their-research-findings-we-need-get-better-handling-floods - 2025-08-29

The Magical Garden is a pedagogical system for preschool mathematics created around a digital learning-through-play game. The system is based on more than 10 years of research and development. Now, it’s been awarded a proof-of-concept grant. Learning early math is not just fundamental for children to do better in math; it’s a key predictor of overall school success, according to Agneta Gulz, profe

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/innovative-system-teaching-preschool-maths-receives-sek-38-million-proof-concept-funding-wallenberg - 2025-08-29

PluvioFlow, a pioneering technology company specializing in flood modeling, announces the appointment of Jonatan Green Brzezinski as its new CEO and Inriver founder Johan Billgren as Chairman of the Board. Simultaneously, the company is launching a pilot program following highly positive market feedback. "I'm excited to join the team and get started," says Jonatan Green Brzezinski, the new CEO. "I

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/pluvioflow-wants-increase-societies-resilience-floods-appoints-new-ceo-and-launches-pilot-program - 2025-08-29

To address the unique needs of Sweden's innovative and fast-growing startups and scaleups, a new collaborative initiative called Sweden Startup Nation has been established. This initiative aims to serve as an independent, national knowledge hub that enhances understanding of startups, scaleups, and their ecosystem through comprehensive data collection, analysis, and accessibility. The initiative i

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/new-initiative-strengthen-swedens-startups-and-scaleups - 2025-08-29

Much of the world's infrastructure is made of concrete, which presents a challenge when it cracks and needs repair. Traditional repair methods involve cutting away a large amount of material. Now researchers at Lund University are investigating an innovative solution: using fungi to mend concrete. This groundbreaking research got off the ground with a Sustainable Idea Exploration grant and support

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/sustainable-construction-how-fungi-research-lund-university-could-revolutionise-infrastructure - 2025-08-29

THINK TEAM. Don't strive for perfection, take small steps instead. And dare to ask the really tough questions. Annika Lindström, Innovation Developer at LU Innovation, gives advice to aspiring entrepreneurs. To "succeed" in realising an idea, the most fundamental thing in my eyes is to be truly driven by the desire to solve a problem and create value for an end user or customer.It's easy to fall i

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/dont-fall-love-your-own-idea - 2025-08-29

Picture of Johan Johansson and Nahuom Naizghi on site in Italy. Trauma surgeon Dr. Gabriel Börner often saw patients suffer from complications after open abdominal surgery. Inspired by evidence that the small-bites technique could significantly reduce these issues, he founded Suturion in 2018. Now Suturion has entered the first commercial production of SutureTOOL™. Resembling an advanced surgical

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/bench-bedside-suturion-enters-first-commercial-production-suturetooltm - 2025-08-29

“It's an amazing feeling to see your research put to practical use in the real world," explains Magnus Gäfvert, new Innovation Developer at LU Innovation who works with researchers at LTH. After having been co-founder and CEO of the software company Modelon, which is based on LTH research, he has now returned to Lund University. Now he wants to help the next generation of researchers transform the

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/ceo-innovation-developer-magnus-gafvert-coaches-researchers-lth-become-next-generation-innovators - 2025-08-29

Yvonne Lundberg Giwercman shows the test kit for Dx4Life A point-of-care test developed by researchers at Lund University is poised to transform fertility treatment protocols globally. The innovation, backed by a clinical study published in Frontiers in Endocrinology, enables rapid identification of optimal hormone treatments for IVF patients, significantly improving success rates while minimising

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/breakthrough-testing-method-ivf-treatment-shows-38-increase-babies-born - 2025-08-29

Obesity represents a tremendous global health problem. Studies over the past decade have suggested that food addiction (FA), that is, physical cravings for certain foods – high in fat/sugar – and addiction-like overeating of these types of food, is a likely contributor to the obesity epidemic. New publication in Acta Neuropsychiatrica

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/food-addiction-denmark-fadk-project-combined-survey-and-register-based-study - 2025-08-29

Genetic factors are important in determining breast density, and heritable factors account for 60% of the variation. Certain single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with density and risk of breast cancer but the association with prognosis is not clear. New publication in Acta Radiologica

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/association-single-nucleotide-polymorphisms-snps-breast-density-and-breast-cancer-survival-malmo - 2025-08-29

ncreasing life expectancy for people with an intellectual disability (ID) is resulting in more persons with cancer and a greater need for end-of-life (EoL) care. There is a need for knowledge of health care utilisation over the last year of life to plan for resources that support a high quality of care for cancer patients with ID. Therefore, the aims of the study were to compare (1) health care ut

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/end-life-care-among-older-cancer-patients-intellectual-disability-comparison-general-population - 2025-08-29

People with intellectual disability (ID) face considerable barriers to accessing psychiatric health care, thus there is a risk for health disparity. The aims of the present study were 1) to compare specialist psychiatric health care utilization among older people with ID to that with their age peers in the general population, taking into account demographic factors and co-morbidities associated wi

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/specialist-psychiatric-health-care-utilization-among-older-people-intellectual-disability-predictors - 2025-08-29

Preterm birth (gestational age <37 weeks) has previously been associated with cardiometabolic and neuropsychiatric disorders into adulthood, but has seldom been examined in relation to sleep disorders. We conducted the first population-based study of preterm birth in relation to sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) from childhood into mid-adulthood. New publication in International Journal of Epidemio

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/preterm-birth-and-risk-sleep-disordered-breathing-childhood-mid-adulthood - 2025-08-29

Har Du deltagit i mammografiscreeningen eller undersökts med brösttomosyntes i Malmö mellan 2004 och 2018 eller deltagit i mammografiscreening i Lund, Helsingborg eller Kristianstad mellan 2013 och 2018? Då kan dina uppgifter finnas i en ny studie vid Lunds universitet! Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/modernisering-av-brostcancerscreening - 2025-08-29

Pain is a common problem for individuals with cerebral palsy (CP). In Sweden, 95% of children and adolescents with CP are followed in a national follow-up programme (CPUP), which includes data on pain. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of pain based on age, sex, gross motor function and source of report (self or proxy). Pain intensity, pain site, and how much pain disturb

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/pain-children-and-adolescents-cerebral-palsy-cross-sectional-register-study-3545-individuals - 2025-08-29

The fragility index (FI) is a metric to evaluate the robustness of statistically significant results. It describes the number of patients who would need to change from a non-event to an event to change a result from significant to non-significant. This systematic survey aimed to evaluate the feasibility of applying the FI to findings related to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction in th

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/strength-numbers-fragility-index-studies-scandinavian-knee-ligament-registries - 2025-08-29

The British Cardiovascular Intervention Society (BCIS) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) registry is hosted by the National Institute of Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR) at Bart’s Heart Centre and collects clinical characteristics, indications, procedural details, and outcomes of all patients undergoing PCI in the UK. The data are used for audit and research to monitor and improve P

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/british-cardiovascular-intervention-society-registry-framework-quality-improvement-initiative-behalf - 2025-08-29