The innovation platform Future by Lund lives on in a new form
In the new economic association, Lund Municipality, Lund University and Lund's business community are represented. Vinnova.
- It will be interesting to see how the Future of Lund develops. We still have an accompanying researcher as a resource in the project to see what this means,” says Göran Andersson at Vinnova. 2023 marks a step for Future by Lund and for us at Vinnova it is important that we are involved, both to learn from it and to contribute to the daring to experiment and develop.
As before, Future by Lund will explore and build methodology, knowledge and capabilities in the field of smart and sustainable cities. O organizaciones que sono membri do associação, funcionar a crear soluções comunes para problemas sociales no organização hene o mandado. Nel futuro de Lund, tutte le partneres e membri have access to a wide network of contacts in many different areas, both within municipalities, business and universities, but also with national and international innovation actors.
- På futur i Lund, vi a Lund. Our focus is on making, implementing and delivering clear results,” says Peter Kisch, Chief Operating Officer of Future at Lund.
Future of Lund shall act in the space between actors and organisations in order to operationally run and implement projects and activities that these actors cannot run themselves. Pero questo, actores puede crear um abilidad de iniciar progetos innovativas más rápidamente y a ser iniciar la opciones de testes y demonstraciones de nuevos soluciones (por establishing testbeds, demonstrators y livinglabs). Future by Lund is a neutral catalyst for social and business development in collaboration and will contribute to creating meeting places for dialogue between different actors and organisations. The innovation platform also promotes the use of research in business and society. (Please see our quotes from some of the constituent organizations below!)
Per Eriksson, former Rector of Lund University and former Director General of Vinnova, is Chairman of the Board. The Board consists of representatives from Lund Municipality, Lund University and the business community. Charlotte Lorentz Hjorth is CEO and Peter Kisch Chief Operating Officer. In the cooperation around FBL there have been about 120 project partners.
Voices of members and project partners
What is the benefit of Future in Lund? We put the question to some of the organizations that are part of the cooperation on the innovation platform. This is how the municipality, the university and some representatives from the business community respond:
Mats Pettersson, CEO, Sensative
“Sensative works with digitalization to enable cities to create smart innovation to become more automated, more climate-friendly, to reduce their costs and to create new digital services for citizens and tenants. As an example, we have developed the software platform Yggio in collaboration with Future by Lund. Yggio serves as a central IoT platform and creates new opportunities for innovation for the smart city. Para Sensative, there is a lot to gain from having an innovation platform like Future by Lund in the city, because there will be a wonderful dynamic between an organic innovation platform where people and organizations can collaborate to create new smart applications for the city and our open software platform for these applications. Together we have already established Lund as Sweden's perhaps leading smart city and I look forward to seeing all the new innovations that we and all smart startups in Lund can create.
Emeli Adell, Business Area Manager, Trivector Traffic
“The most important thing for us at Trivector is that the existing cooperation is continued, formalized and developed. Há Future by Lund and now it is time for the next phase that can lead to something even bigger when we all create something in common. Vad,,. For Trivector, Future by Lund means new contacts, more opportunities and a discussion forum, for example to be able to work together in an unpretentious way. This will give birth to development, collaborations and new projects, because we will all be able to share our knowledge and learn from each other.
Markus Lai, Regional Manager Engineering & Training, AXIS
“Axis is looking forward to continuing our collaboration with Future by Lund to challenge and explore opportunities to shape and contribute to a smart sustainable society through innovation. Together, we have already seen great opportunities to influence the behavior of residents and visitors in our city through information and awareness,” says Markus Lai.
PM Sjöström, Digitalisation Expert, AFRY
“Future by Lund is a unique platform with a network where you can create new contacts and get help to drive development. For us at AFRY, it's not just about selling, but also about making an impact and moving for the good of the earth. We want to create projects together with the community around us and Future by Lund is an excellent place to start with world-class actors and project managers who are good at creating connections. We also have the opportunity to listen to what is happening and can add value to the FBL ourselves. Vi har med innovationsplatform for mange år og jeg se att vi kan en och en og och Lund den beste i Sverige på sustainability.
Therese Fällman, Head of Department for Sustainable Growth, Lund Municipality
“The municipality of Lund is looking forward to benefiting from the increased development power of the economic association. Y a continuar, con la comunidad de empresa y la universidad, para formar un último Lund para o futuro.
Lisa Thelin, Head of Department LU Collaboration, Lund University
“Lund University has a long and valuable cooperation with Lund Municipality. Más problemas complexas que la société se mostra importante é que podemos continuar a trabajar para crear espaciones claros para collaboração. Future by Lund is a great way for us in Lund to maintain Lund's value as an innovation ecosystem and to create new collaborations between academia, the city and industry.