Read about how we have worked with our low-threshold innovation services in 2025 to support innovative researchers and strengthen the innovation culture at UiO, and collaborated with the innovation ecosystem.
How can home diagnostic tests be made smarter? Researchers at the Department of Pharmacy at UiO have been working on this for a number of years, and they have developed a product that they want to take to the market. Guidance and seed funding from the UiO Growth House helped them move forward when the innovation process had stalled.
Labs are loaded with biological samples and data connected with the samples. The lack of a management system motivated employees at UiO start developing a system that they want to offer labs globally. Now they are working on a prototype that is ready to be tested in the spring. The UiO Growth House is supporting them on their way into the unknown business landscape, and innovation funding from UiO is giving them the opportunity to develop a robust software.
Are you a researcher with an innovative idea based on your research that can contribute to solving an important need in society, but need funding to develop the idea further? Check the UiO call for innovation funding within all academic fields. The call is aimed at both commercial and non-commercial projects. The application deadline was16 March 2026.
UiO has several different support schemes for innovative researchers: seed funding from the UiO Growth House and innovation funding from UiO as well as admission to the innovation programmes SPARK Norway and SPARK Social Innovation. In 2026, UiO plan to announce a total of NOK of at least 12 million from internal funds.?
