Research for innovation
Halmstad University has two profile areas, Health Innovation, and Smart Cities and Communities, and three areas with the right to award doctorates: Information Technology, Innovation Sciences and Health Sciences. The profile areas are the base for the Knowledge and Competence Center called Research for Innovation.
Halmstad University is one of five universities in Sweden that has qualified to be a Knowledge and Competence Center by the Knowledge Foundation. The other Knowledge and Competence Centers are at University of Skövde, Mid Sweden University, University West and Jönköping University. The Knowledge and Competence Centers receive funding from the Knowledge Foundation through yearly plans, instead of applying in separate calls.
Through the Knowledge and Competence Center, the Knowledge Foundation provides support for research efforts that are gradually developing an increasingly profiled educational and research institution, with the highest quality, clear positioning and with activities that have a strong relevance for the development of industry and society.
Co-production with the industry
Crucial to all research projects within the Knowledge and Competence Center is the close collaboration with industry, known as co-production. This means that companies are engaged in research projects together with the University's researchers, and make important contributions to the research at their own expense.
Halmstad University’s Knowledge and Competence Center was inaugurated in April 2012 and will run for ten years, until the end of 2021. The Knowledge and Competence Center is called Research for Innovation to reflect the University’s profile.
Organisation and management
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board is under reconstruction.
Management council
- Stephen Hwang, Vice-Chancellor
- Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson, Programme Director
- Anders Nelson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor
- Max Lundberg, Programme Coordinator
Management group
- Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson, Chair and Programme Director
- Magnus Holmén, Research Leader CIEL
- Claes Malmberg, Research Leader CLKS
- Andreas Ivarsson, Research Leader CVHI
- Slawomir Nowaczyk, Research Leader EIS
- Bengt-Göran Rosén, Research Leader RLAS
- Jens Nygren, Programme Director Health Innovation
- Magnus Jonsson, Programme Director Smart Cities and Communities
- Max Lundberg, Programme Coordinator
- Christel Sjunnesson, Research Support Coordinator
