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Welcome to KTH Innovation #itallstartshere

At KTH Innovation, leading researchers, creative students, startup founders, industry professionals, investors, and enablers come together with a shared purpose: to solve problems using new technology.

With support from KTH Innovation, new ideas and advanced research get the best possible conditions to succeed. Since 2007, we have built world-class innovation support – open to all students and researchers at KTH. We welcome new ideas all year round.

Here, you can get support to develop your idea all the way to launch, explore how your research could create impact, participate in inspiring events, join a startup team, or take part in one of our programs.

There are also opportunities for those who want to contribute – for example as an investor, mentor, venture builder, or industry partner.

We combine creativity with structure and are particularly skilled at supporting ideas based on advanced, research-driven technology – so-called deep tech.

Want to get involved? Get in touch with us today or visit us at Teknikringen 1 on KTH Campus!

Current opportunities

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Join the Relativity Collective

The Relativity Collective is a highly selective, pan-European entrepreneurship program for 25–30 of Europe’s most ambitious students. We bring together exceptional talent from top universities to form a deeply connected cohort designed to accelerate ambition, collaboration, and company building across borders.

Run by KTH Innovation in collaboration with ETH Zurich, Technical University of Munich, University of Oxford, Aalto University and CDTM.

Visit us at Teknikringen 1 

This is Teknikringen 1

Teknikringen 1 is open for everyone every weekday from 07.30-16.30. Here, you will find:

  • Plenty of space to work or develop your idea
  • Makerspace, production studio, and co-working space
  • Frequent events, workshops and plenty of opportunities to meet others interested in innovationa
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The Rise Europe Network 2025

Networks and partnerships

KTH Innovation collaborates with leading actors to create the best possible conditions for innovations from KTH. We are a driving force in the global innovation ecosystem, with a strong focus on Europe.

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KTH Ventures

We collaborate closely with KTH Ventures (formerly KTH Holding), the venture capital arm of KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

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Rise Europe

Rise Europe unites leading start-up ecosystem builders from 14 European countries. We empower European start-ups to make a positive global impact.

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Global Change Award

KTH is partner in the Global Change Award, (GCA) an innovation challenge initiated by H&M Foundation. The mission is to accelerate early-stage innovation to support the textile industry in halving its greenhouse gas emissions every decade, reaching net-zero by 2050.

Innovations from KTH

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KTH Innovation in numbers

  • KTH Innovation meets over 400 teams with new ideas every year. Around 30% is deeptech; ideas based on advanced technology and research.
  • We rank as one of Europe's leading startup hubs according to the Financial Times.
  • In 2024, 25 % of Sweden's most innovative and promising tech companies ( NyTeknik ), and 30 % of current research with potential to create value (IVA)  came from KTH. 
  • Over 85% of the teams we support want to contribute to sustainable development.
  • We have helped start over 450 companies that together have raised over 8 billion Swedish crowns.
  • We work actively for increased equality within the innovation system. Around 40 % of the teams we support have at least one female founder.

Innovations from KTH

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Oxford, ETH and KTH are three of the founding hubs behind the initiative.

KTH joins forces with leading universities connecting top entrpreneurial students

KTH Innovation, together with leading European universities, is launching a new founder program for Europe’s most promising student entrepreneurs. Through Relativity Collective, top students from KTH,...

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Promising deeptech startups, industry, and investors gathered at KTH

Promising deeptech projects from KTH, Chalmers University of Technology, Uppsala University, and Lund University met with investors and industry representatives at KTH Innovation last week. The event,...

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KTH Innovation strengthens support for deep tech – new funding available

KTH Innovation has been awarded the highest amount of funding of all universities in Sweden for 2026–2027 in this year’s call for Vinnova's verification program VFT. The funding supports researchers i...

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Tiny organs, big potential: how a PhD student is bridging microfabrication with organoid research

Organoid research is opening new possibilities for studying human diseases and testing drugs. But despite their potential, manipulating and studying them under the microscope is still a technical chal...

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