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120 reviewed science parks & incubators

72 cleantech companies listed

10 key incubators examined

Nordic Science Parks+

Incubators

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I believe that it is a kind of wave movement

…and that in the coming years we will have

more new cleantech start-ups than nowadays.

I believe that regional and inter-regional co-

operation in Finland and particularly inter-

national cooperation, networking, marketing

and business development will lead to new

businesses.

Pirjo Koskiniemi | Oulu Innovation

1. General findings about the development

of cleantech incubation activities 42. Characteristic features of science parks

in each of the Nordic countries 63. Overview of the most active and/or

new science parks with cleantech focus84. Characteristics of cleantech

companies in incubators 125. List of cleantech companies

currently in incubators 146. List of science parks and incubators

reviewed during the study. 26

The aim of the report is to provide an

overview of cleantech activities in Nordic

science parks and business incubators. This

report is an update and follow up on the

first study prepared by Cleantech

Scandinavia in 2007. The first report out-

lined 10 key cleantech incubators in

Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden,

and 24 promising cleantech companies

in these incubators. This report does the

same for 2008, outlining relevant changes.

More than 120 science parks and incuba-

tors in the Nordic countries have been

reviewed, with the aim of identifying the

ones most active in the cleantech sec-

tor, subsequently screening through the

companies located in those science parks

to find cleantech-focused ones. Several

science parks were contacted with more

detailed questions regarding their activi-

ties and their development prospects for

cleantech start-ups. A complete list of

all Nordic science parks and incubators

reviewed is presented in the Annex.

The report contains a list of the 72 Nordic

cleantech companies currently incubated,

classified by cleantech segment. A brief

description of their scope of operations is

also provided. Additionally, a separate sec-

tion is devoted to the description of overall

organisational and financing structure of

science parks’ activities in each of the Nordic

countries including prioritised expertise areas.

Cleantech Scandinavia

Malmö, February 2009

An overview of cleantech activities

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Following the structure introduced in

the first report, a statistical summary of

science parks by country and in total is

provided here. These statistics are mainly

based on open sources and might be

incomplete, but they do provide a good

estimation of incubation activities in the

cleantech sector. The total number of

science parks and research organisations

reviewed is 128, which is 21 more than last

year – several new organisations have been

added (newly established or re-branded).

Refer to section 6 to find the full list.

Since most of the newly added organisa-

tions do not have environmental tech-

nology in their focus, the percentage of

cleantech-profiled incubators dropped

relatively, but the identified total number

of incubators having cleantech start-ups as

their clients has grown from 24 in the last

year’s report to 31.

Cleantech needs an extra push

Science parks & With incubation With environment With cleantech

innovation incubators activities as an area of focus companies

Denmark 14 10 5 5

Finland 26 16 9 5

Norway 34 28 9 7

Sweden 55 40 13 14

TOTAL 129 = 100% 93 = 72% 36 = 28% 31 = 24%

› Incubation activities are defined for

the purpose of the study as support

provided to start-up companies e.g.

rental of office space, provision of

logistical and administrative sup-

port, as well as potential additional

services such as legal advising or

coaching.

› The ‘Cleantech companies’ column

focuses on start-up companies

offering innovative and most

often disruptive technologies

in order to solve environmental

problems using, most of the time,

a preventative approach. This is

a first difference from traditional

environmental technologies, which

are often end-of-pipe solutions.

The second difference is that, in

addition to energy, waste, water,

and air, cleantech encompasses

technologies in many additional ar-

eas including for instance logistics,

materials, agriculture, food, indus-

trial processing, or nanotechnology.

› Incubators with ‘Environment as an

area of focus’ relates to what can

be broadly described as traditional

environmental technologies, which

typically include any technology

dealing with waste, water or air.

It is important to note that the

classification as environmental

technology does not make a

differentiation neither between

preventative and non-preventative

technologies, nor between estab-

lished and disruptive technologies

and companies. Keeping this in

mind allows understanding why a

number of incubators have an envi-

ronmental focus but do not feature

companies that can be labelled as

‘cleantech’.

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› Not all science parks and incubators are

active in promoting their client compa-

nies by, for example, publishing the list of

companies and their description on their

websites. In addition, information is often

only accessible in the national language.

This means information about incubated

start-ups can be hard to find and that, in

many cases, the companies are therefore

not optimally profiled by the incubators

they are part of.

› Following an observation made in the

first report, the largest concentration

of technology innovation companies is

observed in the science parks directly

related to main university centres and re-

search institutions that support spin-offs

from these organisations. Good examples

of such cooperation are Campus Kjel-

ler and Gløshaugen Innovation Center in

Norway, STING and Chalmers Innovation

in Sweden, as well as Scion-DTU Science

Park in Denmark.

› The incubation services that are offered

to the start up companies by different

science parks range between provid-

ing the office space and basic business

coaching, offering marketing and com-

munications support to assisting in find-

ing financing according to the develop-

ment stage, and direct investments in the

companies. Such wider business develop-

ment assistance is sought by many

companies, and all the key incubators

presented in the Section 3 of this report

provide these services to some extent.

› Starting in 2009, Norway and Finland

are changing their funding structure to

encourage innovation. Public funding will

be provided directly to individual start-up

companies through special funds, mak-

ing the structure similar to the ones in

place in Sweden and Denmark. Previously

funding from public innovation founda-

tions was redistributed to the companies

through science parks and incubators (in

Finland) or regional investment funds (in

Norway).

Based on the review of the

science parks and incuba-

tors found, the following

observations and conclu-

sions were drawn regarding

the development of clean-

tech incubation activities:

› During the past year, no outstanding

growth has been observed in the number

of science/innovation parks with clean-

tech activities as well as in the number

of new start-up companies and industrial

spin-offs in the cleantech sector. The

majority of new companies included in

this report compared to its previous ver-

sion were established prior to the middle

of 2007. The increase in the statistical

numbers presented above is therefore at-

tributed mainly to a broader background

research.

› Several innovation and science parks in

every country are prioritising environmen-

tal technology as one of their expertise

areas. Overall, cleantech is however still

significantly below in the number of

start-up companies and profiled science

parks / incubators in comparison to ICT

and biotech. Hence, only one business

incubator is dedicated exclusively to

promoting environmental technologies

i.e. Swedish Cleantech Incubators – a

virtual incubator based in IDEON Science

Park in Lund, Sweden. It is working with a

growing number of companies (16 at the

moment), mostly from Southern Sweden.

Cleantech needs an extra push

Virtualisation can be mentioned as a characteristic feature of today’s

cleantech sector. Along with the virtual incubator that gathers the largest

number of cleantech companies compared to other incubators, there are

examples of recently established cooperation initiatives such as:

STOCKHOLM CLEANTECH BUSINESS NETWORK

Led by Kista Science City

and Stockholm Innovation

and Growth (STING).

SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION

A network established

by several large Swedish

companies and aimed at

promoting energy efficiency

technologies.

GREENNET FINLAND

A network for the promotion

of Finnish environmental

technology, which focuses

on both national and Nordic

activities.

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Science parks are mainly affiliated with

universities and closely linked or co-owned

by the regional or municipal authorities.

Public funding provided to incubators and

start-up companies has a regional scope,

and is allocated through designated inno-

vation companies, established in the main

Danish regions. These innovation com-

panies work in cooperation with leading

science parks in their regions. There is no

nation-wide coordination of science parks’

activities.

The strongest focus areas of the science

parks across Denmark are ICT, Medical

Technology, and Energy. The main areas

of expertise of Danish cleantech com-

panies are alternative energy, water and

agriculture, with main centres of expertise

located around the capital area of Copen-

hagen and Århus.

Public funding has a strong regional scope

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Funding, supportand politicsThough most nordic activities are regionally based, there are

differences between the countries on how to make the

companies in science parks and incubators grow.

mechanism that existed until the end of

2008, where public funding from Inno-

vasjon Norge was allocated to regional in-

novation funds, which in turn worked with

science parks and individual companies.

Starting from this year, a fund of over NOK

2 billion – Investinor - is starting its in-

vestment activities. This fund will directly

finance start-up companies, a change

which is similar to the one observed in

Finland.

The Norwegian environmental and

cleantech sector is closely linked to the

country’s traditional strongholds: maritime,

water, oil and gas exploration and trans-

portation, and fisheries.

A national network of science parks and

business incubators has been created in

Norway with the support from SIVA (Indus-

trial Development Corporation of Norway)

in order to promote the development of

high-technology and knowledge based

industries. Although all incubators are

nationally overlooked, each has a regional

focus and is supported by a local university

or prevailing industry. Therefore, a specific

sector is often prioritised. Incubators are

located in all parts of Norway, but the ones

most active in the cleantech sector are

concentrated around Oslo and Trondheim.

The regional focus of Norwegian science

parks was also determined by the financial

New financing system in 2009

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focus areas, such as Environmental Health

in Kuopio, Water Industries and Clean Air

in Oulu, Environmental Monitoring and ICT

in Uusimaa, and Business Development

in Lahti. Lahti Science and Business Park

co-ordinates this work. A number of other

development programmes and funding

mechanisms have been established to

support the commercialisation of Finnish

cleantech innovations, for example Sitra’s

Energy programme, as well as a number of

programmes in specific technology sectors

run and funded by TEKES.

Until the end of 2008, public funding was

allocated to science parks by TEKES, but

from 2009 onwards, this mechanism is

changing towards more direct financing

of individual companies through various

TEKES programmes.

Areas where Finnish cleantech compa-

nies are particularly active are water and

wastewater, energy storage and forestry.

Most science parks have regional focus,

and are founded and owned either entirely

by the municipalities or in cooperation with

local universities. Science parks and incu-

bators are well coordinated on the national

level through funding schemes of TEKES

(Finnish Funding Agency for Technology

and Innovation) and implementation of

Competence Clusters by OSKE (Centre of

Expertise Programme) which is a special

government programme aimed at focus-

ing regional resources and activities on

development areas of key national impor-

tance. It joins all Finnish science parks into

the cluster network and facilitates regional

and international promotion of Finnish

technologies and cooperation with indus-

tries, research institutions and investors.

One of the competence clusters is

“Cleantech”, which is comprised of four

regional science parks, located in Lahti,

Oulu, Kuopio, and Uusimaa/Capital Region

of Finland, each of them having its own

› Science parks and business incubators

can generally be divided into three rough

types that define their main objectives: (1)

Publicly owned and financed science parks

aiming mainly at regional development; (2)

Science parks owned by universities and re-

search centres, whose main objective is to

commercialise technologies and inventions

in the form of spin-off companies; and (3)

Industry initiated science parks aimed at

developing particular technology or type

of business activity in the region. Science

parks of all three types are present in

each country. Public funding is available

in various forms in all countries through

national and regional organisations es-

tablished in order to promote innovation

and technology development. The main

characteristic features and differences in

the organisational and funding structures

across Nordic countries are indicated

below.

Sweden doubtlessly hosts the majority of

Nordic science parks, therefore all types of

science parks can be found there: regional

development and research focused, public-

ly and privately owned. Nevertheless, most

science parks are affiliated with universi-

ties and campuses. Public funding is avail-

able to incubators through a programme

led by Innovationsbron, and to individual

companies at different stages through vari-

ous funds such as VINNOVA, Swentec, or

the funding programmes of Swedish Energy

Agency, particularly on the early seed- and

R&D stages. Leading Swedish innovation

incubators are concentrated around main

university centres such as Stockholm/Upp-

sala, Gothenburg and Lund.

Strongest areas of Swedish cleantech

companies are advanced materials, energy

generation, heating and cooling, water and

wastewater, chemical technologies.

Each incubator has it’s unique focus

Public funding has a strong regional scope

Strong connections to the universities.

Funding, supportand politics

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SCION-DTU SCIENCE PARK

Location Website

Hørsholm / Kongens Lyngby www.sciondtu.dk

Area of focus

Biotech, Nanotech,

Environmental, Medical, IT

Description

An international science park with roots

in the Technical University of Denmark,

it provides access to facilities, services,

consultancy, and professional networks.

It has the biggest number of cleantech

companies in different sectors and on dif-

ferent development stages among Danish

incubators.

Examples of cleantech companies

AQUAPorin, Adept Water Technologies,

Biolocus, Dall Energy, RecoMeta

TECHNOLOGISK INNOVATION

Location Website

Taastrup www.tekinno.dk

Area of focus

Energy, Environment,

Nanotechnology, IT

Description

Primarily invests capital in innovative busi-

ness ideas in the seed phase of knowledge

based companies by offering coaching

and consulting and by giving access to

networks of advisers, technical experts, ad-

visory groups, industry, and capital.


Terranol, Reccat

The initial report prepared in 2007 pre-

sented 10 key Nordic incubators identified

as having the strongest cleantech focus

and/or hosting cleantech companies that

could be potentially interesting investment

opportunities. Similarly, a list of 10 clean-

tech incubators is presented this time, with

however some alterations.

Incubators listed below have been chosen

based on similar criteria, adding a criterion

of providing wider communication and

marketing support together with providing

their client start-up companies with assist-

ance in searching for funding opportunities.

Therefore the incubators presented below,

offer not only expertise in the cleantech

sector, but also general business intel-

ligence, marketing and matchmaking

services. Several other incubators than the

ones included in this selection also include

start-up companies that are classified as

cleantech, please refer to the full list in the

next section.

3 Ten key Nordic cleantech incubators

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LEAD

Location Website

Linköping / Norrköping www.leadincubator.se

Area of focus

Life science, Microelectronics,

Visualization and Digital Imaging

Description

In the year 2007 two incubators from

Linköping and Norrköping merged into a

new company under the name of LEAD.

It sources spin-off companies from the

Linköping University (LiU), governmental

and military research institutes as well as

the surrounding industries. Support in pro-

motion, professional coaching and investor

matchmaking is provided for 3 years.


Biototal, Entrans, Termisk Systemteknik

IDEON INNOVATION

Location Website

Lund www.ideon.se

Area of focus

IT, Telecom, Life Science,

Cleantech and Biotech

Description

IDEON Innovation is a part of IDEON

Science Park, one of the largest business

development parks in Europe. The incuba-

tor places high demands on the start-up

companies that have not only present

an innovative idea, but prove its market

potential and be committed to achiev-

ing rapid growth to be transformed into a

competitive enterprise.


SolVoltaics, Compower, Bioprocess Control

SWEDEN CLEANTECH INCUBATORS

Location Website

Lund www.scti.se

Area of focus

Cleantech

Description

The first cleantech focused virtual incuba-

tor located in the premises of IDEON Sci-

ence park in Lund. Currently works with 16

Swedish companies from various cleantech

areas. Client companies are at different

development stages. The incubator has

significant growth plans establishing coop-

eration with leading science parks across

Sweden. SCTI is a member of Cleantech

Scandinavia


Beakon Technology, Ocean Harvesting

Technologies, Bio Globe, Biofuel Solution

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GLØSHAUGEN INNOVATION CENTER

Location Website

Trondheim www.ig.ntnu.no

Area of focus

Various

Description

Gløshaugen Innovation Center is Norwe-

gian University of Science and Technology

(NTNU), SINTEF and SIVA’s joint initiative

to create an environment and atmosphere

for entrepreneurship, commercialisation

and networking, with close ties to the

academia and research sphere. Innovation

Center is primarily a service for students,

faculty, employees or others with ties to

NTNU or SINTEF, aiming to set up busi-

nesses founded on interesting R&D-based

ideas with a commercial potential. It hosts

several early stage cleantech companies in

various sectors.


CruSiNs, MemfoACT, Vonano

CAMPUS KJELLER

Location Website

Kjeller www.campuskjeller.no

Area of focus

Energy, Safety,

Civil Protection and Environment

Description

Campus Kjeller is a leading Norwegian

innovation incubator. Besides provid-

ing specific expertise, it helps companies

obtain the necessary amount of capital to

secure growth. For early-stage projects,

it is attracting national and international

(EU/EUREKA) funding, and assists portfolio

companies with seed, follow-up and ex-

pansion capital, by using a combination of

own funds and taking a lead role in raising

money from a network of angel investors

or venture funds. Campus Kjeller’s current

portfolio consists of a mix of early and late

stage companies.


Hybrid Energy, Hystorsys, Oceansaver

STOCKHOLM INNOVATION & GROWTH

Location Website

Stockholm www.stockholminnovation.com

Area of focus

ICT, Medtech and Cleantech

Description

In cooperation with Kista Science Park,

STING builds export oriented businesses

in ICT, multimedia and cleantech sec-

tors, aiming at fast market development

and growth. Financial services are offered

through STING’s own venture capital fund

and Business Angels network.


Solarus, Rehact, Plagazi

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TECHNOPOLIS VENTURES

Location Website

Vantaa, Kuopio, Oulu www.technopolisventures.fi

Area of focus

Various

Description

It is the largest and most renown Finn-

ish network of business incubators, which

although doesn’t have a specific cleantech

focus, hosts several cleantech companies

in its various locations such as Capital area,

Kuopio and Oulu. Technopolis Ventures

works in close cooperation with regional

science parks, and provides its companies

with business coaching and assistance in

accessing international markets and funding.


Enfucell, Enercomp, Tuulivoimala, Canatu

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LAHTI SCIENCE AND BUSINESS PARK

Location Website

Lahti www.lahtisbp.fi

Area of focus

Coordinator of the

Finnish Environmental Cluster

Description

Business development portfolio includes

strategic consulting and financial advisory

services for Finnish cleantech growth com-

panies including business plan consulta-

tion and market research. Its target is to

increase awareness of international venture

capital investors for Finnish cleantech

business by organising pitching events, and

hosting annual Venture Capital Day. Lahti

SBP is a member of Cleantech Scandinavia.


Eagle, Biower

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This list below presents 72 companies from

Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden

currently located in incubators, with a

brief description of their business idea. All

companies are categorised by cleantech

segment. It is worth noticing that several

companies could have been allocated to

more than one sector, but the choice was

made based on their primary focus. In to-

tal, there are 49 new companies presented,

which, for most of them, have however

been established in 2007 or earlier. There-

fore, not all of these new companies can

be attributed to the last year. To our opin-

ion, the actual growth in the total number

of cleantech companies in incubation is

less than was ambitiously expected at the

time the first study was prepared.

The majority of start-up companies are

emerging in energy-related sectors such

as energy efficiency, solar, wave and wind

energy conversion, and innovative bat-

tery technologies. Biofuels development

is also a well-developing sector. Water

purification and wastewater treatment

technologies are also developing in the

whole Nordic region, concentrating mainly

on non-chemical purification methods and

distributed systems. Advanced materials is

the third most popular sector, represented

mostly by Swedish companies.

As a concluding remark, it should be noted

that business incubation is maybe the

shortest and most convenient way to help

new ideas and technologies become com-

mercially viable and attractive.

Business intelligence and expertise accu-

mulated by many renowned science parks

and incubators could significantly add to a

more rapid development of the cleantech

sector in particular, which is rightly consid-

ered as the strong and promising busi-

ness area in the whole Nordic region and

beyond. The value that incubators can add

to this process relates mainly to providing

financial services and targeted promotion

The majority of start-up companies are emerging in

energy-related sectors, biofuel and water treatment.

In Sweden, advanced materials is also a growing sector.

4 Characteristics of cleantech companies in incubators

Energy dominatesthe business

47%

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to public donor organisations and private

investors, as appropriate to the stage.

It is however important to note that nowa-

days a majority of the cleantech compa-

nies start and develop their operations on

their own (i.e. outside specific incubators

venturing) with support from private and

public organisations. Even though Clean-

tech Scandinavia expected the growth of

cleantech incubation activities to be more

significant than what it has been over the

past year, it is still believed that the poten-

tial for such increase is significant. We will

therefore continue monitoring the develop-

ment of incubation activities in 2009.

Energy dominatesthe business

47% Almost 50% of the companies

in this survey is in the energy generation, storage or effeciency fields.

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HS Kraft

Windpower developerwww.hskraft.se

Develops, builds and owns large wind

farms in wind intensive areas in coopera-

tion with landowners. Allows landowners

to extract income from using their land for

power generation.

Eagle

Small scale wind powerwww.eagle.fi

The technology enables the use of wind

power as a personal source of energy, when

the electricity is fed directly to the home

network. Has designed nanotechnology

wings expected to offer higher production

rate than other available options.

CruSiNs

Solar cells [email protected]

Develops a new concept of the produc-

tion of silicon to be used in solar cells

production, as well as offers other related

products and services.

Compower

Local energy generationwww.compower.se

Develops economical, easy to use and

eco-friendly products based on a design

that combines a boiler with a micro-

turbine. Such a boiler also supplies power

and can reduce energy costs for single and

multiple-family homes by as much as 50%.

CCM Power

Wood gasificationwww.ccm-power.fi

Created a wood-gas generator prototype

with the claim to be the market’s best

technology. The technology gives good

foundation for operations to decrease car-

bon dioxide emissions and to focus on the

renewable energy.

AC-Sun

Solar-powered air conditioningwww.ac-sun.com

The company’s purpose is to develop and

commercialise a thermal air conditioning

solution driven by solar panels, enabling

considerable power savings, free-of-pollu-

tion, silent cooling and better comfort.

EnergyGeneration

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Cleantech in progress

A list of cleantech companies currently in incubators.

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Sol Voltaics

Solar cells developmentwww.solvoltaics.com

A nanotechnology company focused on

the development and commercialisation of

highly efficient, third-generation photo-

voltaic concentrator solar cells.

Plagazi

Waste into hydrogen conversionwww.plagazi.com

Offers a method for changing waste into

hydrogen through “plasma gasification”

concept. The system is entirely closed and

gives off no environmentally hazardous

waste products. Waste can be changed

into hydrogen for electricity and heat pro-

duction, or into raw material.

Ocean Harvesting Technologies

Wave energy developmentwww.oceanharvesting.com

Provides a wave energy extraction solution

that produces an even power level despite

the constantly varying and shifting mo-

tions of the waves.

Stirling DK

Biomass energy productionwww.sd.econtent.dk

The technology enables to convert biomass

of low energy value, such as wood chips

and straw, into high value, clean,

CO2-neutral electricity and heat, typically

used for district heating.

Solarus

Solar energy developmentwww.solarus.se

Manufacturing autonomous solar panels

for capturing solar energy and transforming

it into heat for seasonal use in individual

homes/summerhouses.

Solar Cell Repower

Repowering solar cellswww.solarcellrepower.com

Develops an innovative technology for re-

powering non prime solar cells. Core tech-

nology focus areas are solar cell defects,

characterisation and measurements.

Cleantech in progress

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Vonano

Solar cells [email protected]

Develops solar cells based on nanotechnol-

ogy.

Vigor

Wave energy developmentwww.wavevigor.com

Employs a new principle to harvest ocean

wave energy using a flexible hose, sea-

water and air to absorb the wave energy,

which is then converted to electricity by a

turbine and generator or transported to a

reservoir.

Tuulivoimala

Small scale wind powerwww.tuulivoimala.com

Develops, manufactures and markets small

wind power related products and services.

Available in 12V / 24V versions for all small

turbines in 200W-500W range.

Terranol

Bioethanol developmentwww.terranol.com

Develops yeasts to be applied in second

generation bioethanol production. The

company introduces a more efficient

fermenting system in order to significantly

increase the yield.

Sun Sil

Photovoltaic modules productionwww.sunsil.dk

Aims at producing complete PV modules,

ready for mounting on roof tops. The

module is a technologically advanced

development of known PV components

and presents efficiency gains and thereby a

lowered cost of the PV unit.

EnergyGeneration (cont’d)


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Suntrica

Mobile solar charging systemswww.suntrica.com

Develops and supplies solar charging sys-

tems and devices for the mobile and con-

sumer electronics industry. The chargers

gather solar energy via flexible solar panels

and store the energy into an internal light-

weight battery for instant or later usage.

Hystorsys

Hydrogen energy storagewww.hystorsys.no

Develops and manufactures efficient, safe,

and sustainable hydrogen energy storage

and compression systems based on metal

hydrides.

Enfucell

Battery technologywww.enfucell.com

Developed a flexible and thin primary

battery made of low cost industrial envi-

ronmentally friendly materials. The main

active components used in the power

source are zinc, manganese dioxide and

zinc chloride as an electrolyte.

Energy Storage

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Heliospectra

LED lighting solutions for greenhouseswww.heliospectra.se

Designs, develops, manufactures and

commercialises an intelligent High Bright-

ness Light Emitting Diode light engine for

greenhouses aimed at being more powerful

for growing crops, more durable, and more

energy efficient than existing alternatives.

Entrans

Waste heat recoverywww.entrans.se

Offers patented system for Waste Heat

Recovery, a system for recovering waste

heat into electricity and cooling within

energy and process industry.

Enercomp

Energy efficient motorswww.enercomp.fi

Provides complete solution for reducing

energy consumption and increasing system

availability in motor driven industrial appli-

cations such as pumps, fans and compres-

sors.

DBC System

Refrigeration systems controlwww.dbc-system.com

Develops a new concept in refrigeration

control to be used primary by supermar-

kets, enabling them to save a considerably

energy in their refrigeration installation.

Dall Energy

Energy efficiency in biomass based plantswww.dallenergy.com

Develops and implements innovative

solutions for biomass based energy plants:

combustion plants for heat production, and

gasification for heat and power produc-

tion. The company overcomes problems of

fouling and corrosion and allows increasing

energy efficiency of the plant.

Bioprocess Control

Biogas digestion optimisatonwww.bioprocesscontrol.com

Provides software technologies and

services that support the efficient design

and operation of biogas processes, which

aim to help removing instability in a biogas

digestion process and achieving operation

at 100% of its designed capacity.

Beakon Technology

Cooling and energy chipwww.beakontech.com

Developed a cooling and energy chip that

can convert waste heat energy into useful

electric energy with high efficiency. The

chip can also be used as a heat pump,

providing a cooling solution for applications

like electronics and in traditional cooling

systems like refrigerators.

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Mantex

Moisture content measuring instrumentwww.mantex.se

Offers the process industries instruments

that can instantly provide information

about content, pollution and quality of

their industrial processes, without physical

contact or interferences with the measured

material.

Hybrid Energy

Hybrid heat pumpswww.hybridenergy.no

Delivers hybrid heat pumps with water and

ammonia as working fluid. Builds complete

waste energy recovery systems for the

food industry and large energy consumers.

Termisk Systemteknik

Infrared imaging for heat losses detectionwww.termisksystemteknik.se

Develops infra red imaging technology for

mapping heat radiation that can be utilised

to detect heat losses in buildings, elec-

tronic devices, heating infrastructure and

other applications.

Snowpower

Snowcooling solutionswww.snowpower.se

Development of snowcooling solutions,

with storage of winter cold (snow/ice) to

the warmer parts of the year, and then use

it for different cooling purposes.

Smoltek

Semiconductor technologywww.smoltek.com

Develops state of the art nanoscale tech-

nologies for the semiconductor industry

to enhance performance, enabling new

functionalities and prolonging the lifetime

of current and future manufacturing tech-

niques.

Rehact

Combined cooling, heating and ventilation systemwww.rehact.com

Develops a local energy system for cooling,

heating and ventilation, built around heat-

pumps and air heat exchanger. It provides

a more economic system for heating and

cooling the building.

Noda Intelligent Systems

District heating systems optimisationwww.noda.se

New solutions in district heating that allow

reducing or eliminating the need for reserve

power plants, and enables optimal use of

the electricity produced in power plants.

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Clean Hull

Underwater hull cleaningwww.cleanhull.no

Offers the shipping industry an environ-

mentally friendly service for underwater

cleaning of hulls of large seagoing vessels.

The method is based upon patented high-

pressure water cleaning, which does not

harm anti-fouling.

Clarity Water

Treatment Systems

Water purificationwww.clarity-wts.com

Offers a patented technology to remove

unwanted organic compounds such as

CO2, phosphorus, total nitrogen and ni-

trate from fresh or salt water, without use

of chemicals.

Biower

Wastewater and biogas solutionswww.biower.com

Supplies entire wastewater treatment and

biogas plants tailored for clients’ demands

in cooperation with its technology part-

ners.

Bio Globe

Local sewage treatmentwww.bioglobe.se

Offers a product which improves the circu-

lation of nutrients by efficiently handling

sewage locally. Sewer outflows are not

mixed, water consumption is reduced,

nutrients are prevented from escaping into

over-fertilised rivers and lakes.

AQUAPorin

Water purificationwww.aquaporin.dk

Develops a patented membrane technology

capable of separating and purifying water

from all other compounds in extreme ap-

plications such as medical, biotech, as well

as in desalination of seawater and pressure

retarded osmosis..

Adept Water Technologies

Water purificationwww.adeptwatertech.com

Develops and markets products, which

remove bacteria from water and water

systems. The products also cut costs by

making it possible to reuse water and im-

prove water quality, water hygiene and the

working environment.

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GreenOil Standard

Separation of oil from contaminated waterwww.greenoil.dk

Manufactures and market a series of com-

pact filtration and water separation units.

The equipment secures cleanliness levels

and low water contents in technical oils.

Envistone

Soil and wastewater decontaminationwww.envitop.com

Develops solutions for stabilisation of con-

taminated soils, reuse of industrial waste

and municipal sludge granulation. Offers

water/wastewater cleaning technologies

e.g. nitrogen removal and reuse for munici-

pal wastewater treatment plants.

Ecowat

Water purificationwww.ecowat.no

Develops new water treatment technol-

ogy for production of drinking water and

ultra pure water for industrial purposes.

May also be used to isolate compounds

dissolved in the water source in a cost ef-

ficient and environmental friendly manner.

Waterment

Small scale wastewater treatmentwww.waterment.no

Development and commercialisation of

wastewater treatment installations for

individual houses, including purification of

water from the sink and shower, excluding

sewage. The system takes up little space

and is inexpensive to run.

Sorbisense

Water purificationwww.sorbisense.dk

Develops, manufactures and markets new

solutions for water quality monitoring,

enabling flow-proportional monitoring

of nitrate, phosphorous, and xenobiotics

(pesticides, PAHs, PCBs VOCs, and heavy

metals).

RecoMeta

Water purificationwww.recometa.dk

Develops a solution for continuous electro-

lytic process for removal of heavy metals

dissolved in water.

Ocean Saver

Ballast water treatmentwww.oceansaver.com

Develops a system for ballast water and

anti-corrosion treatment for shipping

industry.

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Lamera

Improved stainless steel materialwww.lamera.se

Develops ultra-light stainless composite

material for various purposes. The mate-

rial’s properties are similar to conventional

stainless steel and can be processed and

formed with the same tools, making it at-

tractive for exclusive and weight sensitive

applications e.g. aircraft interiors or port-

able consumer goods.

Chromogenics

Electrochromic filmwww.chromogenics.se

Develops and manufactures products

based on electrochromism. The technology

enables the production of plastic foils with

throughputs of light that can be changed

by an electrical voltage.

Canatu

Carbon nanomaterialswww.canatu.com

Production and sales of a new class of

versatile carbon based components based

on carbon nanotubes and new carbon

nanomaterials, improving the performance

and reducing the cost of optical, energy

generation/storage and electrical devices.

Biolocus

Marine paintswww.biolocus.com

Develops a technology that makes it pos-

sible to replace biocides in anti-fouling

paints for boats, ships and offshore

constructions with enzymes in order to

solve an important environmental pollution

problem.

Biofuel Solution

Biofuels developmentwww.biofuel-solution.com

Conducts research focused on turning

glycerol into other useful chemicals, such

as monoalcohol products.

Airglass

New multi- purpose materialwww.airglass.se

Developed a transparent material that

looks like glass, insulates better than

mineral wool and more heat resistant than

aluminium. Many possible applications

such as insulation in windows and solar

collectors, air-conditioning equipment, etc.

AdvancedMaterials


I-Tech

Marine paintswww.i-tech.se

Develops efficient, non-polluting key com-

ponents for anti-fouling paints to be used

in marine environments, enabling adapta-

tion of the paint manufacturer’s product

range to the demands of new legislation,

better operation economy for the ship-

ping trade, as well as a healthier marine

environment.

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Silansil AS

Solar cells developmentwww.organoclick.com

Develops a new technology for production

of liquid silicon to be used in solar panels.

Organoclick

Biocomposite materialswww.organoclick.com

Manufactures and supplies a range of new

biomaterials and chemical compositions for

use in the paper, packaging, textile, wood,

biotech and pharmaceutical industry.

UVOX Microwaves

Microwave systemswww.umw.se

Development of microwave systems that

can be used in industries, for example for

testing the drying methods such as separa-

tion of hazardous wastes.

Resman

Oil wells monitoringwww.resman.no

Offers wireless, permanent downhole mon-

itoring of hydrocarbon drainage in oil wells

throughout their lifetime: during comple-

tion, start up and production, to injection

and formation water breakthrough.

Numcore

Monitoring equipmentwww.numcore.com

Develops and markets innovative moni-

toring and controlling instruments for

on-line use in process industries for several

different applications in the pulp & paper,

mining, and food production industries.

Arc Aromapure

Environmental friendly pasteurisationwww.beat-us.com

Develops energy efficient and environmen-

tally friendly method for biological purifica-

tion, so called cold pasteurisation of liquid

products.

APL Systems

Measurment systemswww.apl.fi

Provides multi-point measurement

systems using the latest energy efficient

embedded wireless technologies for noise,

sulphuric compounds and temperature

detection.

Xylophane

Renewable packaging materialwww.xylophane.com

Develops a new barrier material for packag-

ing based on natural raw material. It is re-

newable, biodegradable and is an efficient

barrier against oxygen, grease and aroma,

thus prolonging the shelf life of sensitive

food stuffs.

Manu- facturing

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Zemission

Catalytic flameless combustion technologywww.zemission.se

Develops an alternative flameless combus-

tion technology for mobile applications, i.e.

heating hybrid cars interiors, mobile power

generators. The technology is scalable,

flexible on fuels used, achieves full com-

bustion, produces a lot of radiant heat and

zero emissions of substances other than

water and CO2.

Ventotech

Energy efficient ventilation systemwww.ventotech.com

Energy efficient moisture control through

adaptive ventilation in interior enclo-

sures such as attic spaces in buildings.

The principle is based on controlling the

ventilation.

Reccat

Catalyser Technologywww.reccat.com

Developed a system which is a combina-

tion of a heat exchanger and a well-tested

catalyst for stationary or mobile gas fired

engines, which removes UHC, CO alde-

hydes and odour from exhausts way below

the emission limits.

Envik-Sense

Mercury detection instrumentwww.envic-sense.com

Develops and produces a measurement

instrument to detect mercury in water,

soil, air and food.

EIFair

Web-based software for environmental impact calculationwww.eifbusiness.nilu.no

Offers a web-based service to the industry,

developed to simulate an Environmental

Impact Factor of emissions to the atmos-

phere.

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SunPine

Biodiesel production from woodwww.sunpine.se

Production of pine diesel, a renewable mo-

tor vehicle fuel based on tall oil, which is a

by-product from the timber industry’s pulp

process. The pine diesel will be processed

to high-quality diesel that fits all diesel

motors.

Precer

Hybrid biofuel powertrainwww.precer.com

Develops a biofuel hybrid type of pow-

ertrain that consists of a pellets burner,

which drives for instance a Stirling engine,

which in turn charges batteries.

MemfoACT

Biogas for transportationwww.memfoact.no

Develops primary carbon membranes for

upgrading fuel qualities of biogas to be

used in transportation sector.

Transportation +Logistics

Seedgard (Thermo Seed)

Non-chemical seed treatmentwww.seedgard.se

Offers a new method for thermal seed

treatment presenting an effective and

economically competitive alternative to

chemical seed treatment.

Biototal

Fertilisers from organic byproductswww.biototal.se

Production of fertilisers from different

organic by-products and “green sector”

wastes, including manure.

Agriculture

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Oulu Innovationwww.ouluinnovation.com

Prizztechwww.prizz.fi

Seinäjoki Technology Centrewww.stoy.fi

Snowpoliswww.snowpolis.com

Steelpoliswww.steelpolis.com

Technology Center TechVilla Ltd.www.techvilla.fi

Technology Centre Hermiawww.hermia.fi

Technology Centre Innoparkwww.innopark.fi

Technology Centre Ketekwww.ketek.fi

Technology Centre Tekniawww.teknia.fi

Technopolis Ventureswww.technopolisventures.fi

Turku Science Parkwww.turkusciencepark.com

Vaasa Parkwww.vaasaparks.fi

Agropolis Science Parkwww.agropolis.fi

Culminatumwww.culminatum.fi

Green Net Finlandwww.greennetfinland.fi

Helsinki Business and Science Parkwww.hbsp.net

Hyvinkäa TechVillawww.techvilla.fi

Joensuu Science Parkwww.carelian.fi

Jyväskylä Science Parkwww.jsp.fi

Kajaani Technology Centrewww.measurepolis.fi

Kuopio Innovationwww.kuopioinnovation.fi

Lahti Science and Business Parkwww.lahtisbp.fi

Lappeenranta Innovationwww.lprinno.fi

Merinovawww.merinova.fi

Mikkeli Technology Centrewww.miktech.fi

Agro Business Parkwww.agropark.dk

Business and Innovation Centre Nordwww.bic-nord.dk

CAT Science Parkwww.catscience.dk

Copenhagen Business Parkwww.nytdomicil.dk

East Jutland Innovationwww.oeiuk.itide.dk

Horsens Business and Innovation Centrewww.innovation-horsens.dk

Incuba Science Parkwww.incuba-sp.dk

Innovation MidtVestwww.innovationmidtvest.dk

NOVI Innovation Incubatorwww.noviinnovation.dk

Nuparkwww.nupark.dk

Science Parks of Southern Denmarkwww.syddanskeforskerparker.dk

Scion-DTU Science Parkwww.sciondtu.dk

Symbion Science Parkwww.symbion.dk

Teknologisk Innovationwww.tekinno.dk

Denmark Finland

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Origo Nordwww.kunnskapsparken-nord.no

Oslo Innovation Centerwww.forskningsparken.no

Rana Sicence Parkwww.kunnskapsparken.com

Sarsia Innovationwww.sarsia.com

Sintefwww.sintef.no

Steinkjer Knowledge Parkwww.kunnskapspark1.no

Sørlandet kunnskapsparkwww.kkp.no

Tel-Tek Inkubatorwww.tel-tek.no

Tretorget Inkubatorwww.tretorget.no

TTO Nordwww.ttonord.no

Ålesund Kunnskapsparkww.aakp.no

iParkwww.ipark.no

IT Fornebu Inkubatorwww.itfi.no

Kongsberg Innovasjonwww.k-i.no

Kongsvinger Kunnskapsparkwww.kpark.no

Leiv Eriksson Inkubatorwww.lei.no

Lillehammer Kunnskapsparkwww.lkp.no

Mo Industriinkubatorwww.kub.as

Molde Knowledge Parkwww.mkp.no

Narvik Innovation Parkwww.fpn.no

NCE Subseawww.ncesubsea.no

NorInnovawww.norinnova.no

Nyskapingsparken Inkubatorwww.nyskapingsparken.no

Bioparkenwww.bioparken.no

Bodø Science Parkwww.kpb.no

Campus Kjellerwww.campuskjeller.no

Coventurewww.coventure.no

Driv Inkubatorwww.drivinkubator.no

Energiparkenwww.energiparken.no

Gjøvik Science Parkwww.gkp.no

Gløshaugen Innovation Centerwww.ig.ntnu.no

Inkubator Nordwww.inkubatornord.no

Inkubator Ålesund Kunnskapsparkwww.aakp.no

Innovation Centre Hedmarkwww.kunnskapsparken-hedmark.no

Norway

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Karolinska Institutet Science Parkwww.ki.se/sciencepark

Kista Science Citywww.kista.com

Krinova Science Parkwww.krinova.se

LEADwww.leadincubator.se

Lindholmen Science Parkwww.lindholmen.se

Liveumwww.liveum.se

Medeonwww.medeon.se

MINCwww.minc.se

Movexumwww.movexum.se

Munktell Science Parkwww.munktellsciencepark.se

Norrköping Science Parkwww.norrkopingsciencepark.com

ESPIRA Tillväxtcenterwww.espira.se

Faxeparkwww.faxepark.se

Framtidens Företagwww.framtidensforetag.se

Gothia Science Parkwww.gsp.se

Gotland Interactive Parkwww.gotlandinteractive.com

GU Holdingwww.holding.gu.se

Idélabswww.mdh.se/idelab

Ideon Science Parkwww.ideon.se

Incuberawww.inkubera.se

Innovatum Inkubatorwww.innovatuminkubator.se

Inovawww.inova.nu

Kalmar Science Parkwww.kalmarsciencepark.se

Acusticumwww.acusticum.se

Aurorum Business Incubatorwww.a-b-i.se

Aurorum Science Park Luleåwww.aurorum.se

Blekinge Business Incubatorwww.b-b-i.se

Bparkwww.bpark.se

Business Incubator Östersundwww.miun.se/businessincubator

Chalmers Innovationwww.chalmersinnovation.com

Chalmers Science Parkwww.chalmerssciencepark.com

Create Bueiness incubatorwww.createbusinessincubator.com

Sweden

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Silverdalwww.silverdal.se

Solander Science Parkwww.solandersciencepark.se

SSE Business Labwww.ssebusinesslab.com

Stiftelsen Teknikdalenwww.teknikdalen.se

Stockholm Innovation & Growthwww.stockholminnovation.com

SU Holdingwww.holding.su.se

Sustainable Innovationwww.sust.se

Sweden Cleantech Incubatorswww.scti.se

Teknikbynwww.teknikbyn.se

Teknikhöjdenwww.teknikhojden.se

Teknocenter Science Parkwww.teknocenter.se

TelecomCitywww.telecomcity.org

Uminova Innovationwww.uminova.se

Uppsala Innovation Centrewww.uic.se

Videum Science Parkwww.videum.se

Åkroken Science Parkwww.akroken.se

Örebro Innovation Centerwww.oic.nu

Novum Research Parkwww.novum.se

Sahlgrenska Science Parkwww.sahlgrenskasciencepark.se

Sandbacka Parkwww.sandbackapark.com

Science Park Halmstadwww.scienceparkhalmstad.se

Science Park Jönköpingwww.sciencepark.se

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problems, such as energy or automotive

sectors, need to see their opportunities and

use the right moment to save their business-

es by investing in innovative cleantech start-

ups, and cooperating with them.”

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