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Examples of business collaboration at Natural Sciences

You may get access to research facilities, develop knowledge in collaboration with our competent researchers, and help shape the students for the industry. The faculty has over the years collaborated with the business community and has as a result a solid experience in developing useful results with partners outside the university.

We have collated a number of examples of business collaboration at Natural Sciences.

Strategic partnership with Grundfos

The Danish company Grundfos is the world's largest manufacturer of pump solutions, and with its focus on students, in 2017 the company entered into a strategic agreement with Aarhus University to promote collaboration with students.

Facts

Purpose: Development of new researchers and promotion of collaboration with students

Partnership since: 2017

X-ray revealed why thermoelectric material was damaged by heat

Through the non profit partnership LINX (Linking Industry to Neutrons and X-rays), TEGnology ApS received help from researchers at the Department of Chemistry to detect errors in the company's thermoelectric material.

Facts

Subject area: Chemistry, materials science

Objectives: Strengthen materials research at Danish companies through access to X-ray and neutron sources.

Researchers: Center for Materials Crystallography, Department of Chemistry.

Partners: Aarhus University, LINX and TEGnology ApS

Students' idea turned into business and championship

Students dreamt about developing apps and with the support from Studentervæksthuset and SPININ the dream came true: Successful business and a championship.

Facts

Subject area: IT Product Development

Formål: Entrepreneurship

Researchers: Tobias Fjelsted Alrøe and Jesper Lysgaard Rasmussen

Supported by: Studentervæksthuset and SPININ

Partners: Trifork, Frameo and MySelfie among other

Protocol helps in development of medicine

Development of medicine takes time. But with a protocol the pharmaceutical industry can work faster and in collaboration with industrial PhD and Aarhus University Novo Nordisk researches in making a protocol.

Facts

Subject area: Chemistry

Purpose: To develop a protocol for the pharmaceutical industry

Researcher: PhD student Lisbeth Ravnkilde Kjølbye

Partner: Novo Nordisk

New magnet technology to enhance green energy

Better magnets can help store renewable energy in floating flywheels. With the support of Innovation Fund Denmark, AU and a number of Danish companies work together to remove one of the really big obstacles to further distribution of renewable energy.

Facts

Subject area: Chemistry and Engineering

Purpose: Develop nanomagnets of sustainable materials for use in floating flywheels

Researchers: Assistant Professor Mogens Christensen and Professor Henrik Myhre Jensen

Partners: Innovation Fund Denmark, Technological Institute, Haldor Topsøe, Sintex, Grundfos, WattsUp Power.

Partnership since: 2017

Company invested in PhD – and won patent and paradigm shift

RadiSurf in Risskov bet on an industrial PhD in collaboration with Aarhus University and that was a decision that paid of. RadiSurf won a patent and a chemical paradigm shift as a result of the industrial PhD.

Facts

Subject area: Chemistry

Purpose: To develop new methods to make adhesion between materials

Researcher: PhD student Stefan Urth Nielsen 

Partner: RadiSurf

Revised 09.03.2023
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