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Solander Business is actively working to create growth and new businesses. Through meetings between companies, entrepreneurs and researchers, new ideas give rise to new business. Interesting meetings create new relationships and mutual knowledge that can help you and your business to develop.

Clusters and other related terms as Innovation and Triple Helix is the popular term often used in different contexts. Geographic concentrations of related companies and agents are characterized by mutual dependence and impact on each other, without direct requirements for interaction with the research. A cluster is assumed that there are geographic concentrations of related firms and other actors who both compete and cooperate. Some advantages of geographical concentration is such availability of specialized labor, specialized inputs, technology, information and experience-based knowledge. The core of the majority cluster consists of a commercial enterprise networks, which collaborate on specific activities such as purchasing synergy, regional brands or joint product development. A cluster can grow organically, without explicit support from the public sector. Source: www.tillvaxtverket.se

It is difficult to realize business ideas and run a business if you do not have money. Therefore, we have at Solander Science Park added a lot of energy on creating opportunities for our companies to get capital to grow and develop. We have some cooperation with stakeholders in both the regional and national innovation system, research funders, venture capitalists and angel investors. Are you in a position where you want to realize your dreams, then we arrange the contact.

Solander Science Park will eventually be able to offer growth programs for new entrepreneurs. Contact us for more information.

Regional clusters program sees networking as collaborations between actors who have a common interest to cooperate. Networking is not necessarily either geographic or represent a specific clusters or innovation systems. One way to clarify the differences between different types of networks is to distinguish between commercial and organized networks. Business Driven Network aims to co-operate through activities that generate economic profit by increasing revenue and / or reduce costs. A commercial network is not a cluster or innovation because it is too limited. A commercial network is, by contrast, often an important (internal) part of both clusters as innovation. Within organized networks is the aim rather developing other forms of common interests that do not directly affect the financial results, but which can help to create better conditions for economic activities. Source: www.tillvaxtverket.se

Nature is amazing, plants use solar energy to build up carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates, plants take up nutrients to build proteins, enzymes, vitamins, fiber, strong structures, large trees and beautiful flowers. Plants give life and give birth to nature all animals. When they die, the energy plants and animals contain be utilized before the components back into nature. It may sound pompous, but it is natural, so hard and so simple. "Bio" means life, bio-energy is life energy. Some believe that bioenergy is not an equally eco-friendly energy such as solar and wind. It is wrong. Bioenergy is as much renewable energy such as solar, wind and water. Bioenergy can be viewed as stored solar energy. The plants convert a portion of the solar energy into chemical compounds that can be used at a later date. However, people sometimes abuse the environment the same way that some people violate laws and commit crimes. It is important that we have regulations or laws, so that we can be secure in the bio-energy production occurs in a sustainable manner. Source: www.svebio.se

Solander Science Park offers you as an employee or a student at university or college, to get help to commercialize your research. It could for example be to match researchers with companies to increase competitiveness in the region, starting new research-based companies, patenting and licensing research results, to name some.

In the international arena of research, the concept of the biorefinery has been developed into a vision of processing scarce resources in a resource-efficient and environmentally-friendly way while striving for sustainable development. There is potential to increase the value added output from renewable raw materials used by today's processing industry.

Among other things it means…
• extracting valuable components from plant material for manufacturing of new materials
• forming systems to refine a greater part of the raw materials
• striving for increased efficiency in all areas, for the whole lifecycle
• using by-products and residual products from different processes
• using spent materials for conversion to fuels
• recycling residue in the form of sludge, ash or dust back into the ground as soil improvement

In today's Swedish forestry industry, the range consists mainly of paper/cardboard, pulp and sawn timber. By-products of the processes are primarily used as fuel. The analogy with an oil refinery is often made, when describing the thoughts around a future biorefinery. The first oil refineries in the middle of the 19th century mainly produced kerosene. Today more than 2000 different products are refined from crude oil. A biorefinery is therefore analogous with an all encompassing and complex process industry, designed to extract the maximum possible refining values from the raw material used. In addition to cellulose fibres there are opportunities to develop new products from the forestry raw material's. Other constituents are lignin, hemi-cellulose, bark and extractives. Source: Processum.se