Andreas Ek
Senior officer
About me
Phone: +46 8 790 6632
Recently joined KTH Innovation as a Business Development Coach, with a primary focus on energy-related ideas as well as a few other technology verticals.
Our team enhance technology from KTH to reach the market and create real value for society. At KTH Innovation, we support students, researchers, and staff at KTH who want to develop their ideas or commercialize their research. We engage with ideas across all tech fields — from advanced technologies based on years of research to student-driven innovations addressing problems they see in everyday life.
Last year I felt it was time for something new and completed a teacher education program here at KTH, complementing my Master of Science in Engineering from Linköping University and my certificate as an energy expert. It feels like I’ve found the ideal role: coaching researchers and students at the intersection of technology and business — what I like to call technical entrepreneurship.
My background includes roles as a project manager, entrepreneur, intrapreneur, and corporate professional. I’ve worked with sales, product management, product development, and investments in early tech companies. Most recently, I served as a project manager for a market entry program involving hands-on customer engagement and qualified participation at tech conferences around the world, through Startup Sweden and Sweden Tech. I’ve always been passionate about helping truly great startups find their customers and partners within large corporations — and about building companies that are sustainable and grounded in reality. I also have experience in commercializing research results.
I’m especially happy to see, from the inside, how professionally KTH Innovation operates in its space.
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