Drivhuset Stockholm – Where Future Entrepreneurs Take Their First Steps
Blog post by Alexis Alvarez, Business Coach at Drivhuset Stockholm.
Imagine a place where young ideas are free to grow, where passion meets ambition, and where the entrepreneurs of tomorrow take their first steps toward greatness. That’s exactly what Drivhuset Stockholm offers – a springboard for the next generation of entrepreneurs. Located on Campus Flemingsberg, we support students every day as they bring their ideas to life and build the skills needed to create real change. Our mission? To provide them with a safe, inspiring environment where they can test and develop their business ideas for real.
Throughout the year, we’ve had the pleasure of meeting over 6,300 students from Södertörn University. Through these interactions, we’ve inspired and challenged them to explore their ideas and take bold steps forward. One of our greatest strengths is the diversity of students who come to us – from a wide range of programs, bringing unique perspectives and expertise. With their insights from various fields, they’re able to create solutions that address not just one societal issue but a broad range of needs and challenges, making their ideas both versatile and relevant.
This year, we’ve also launched initiatives that deepen the student journey. Through the NextGen Entrepreneur Society Fika, we’ve created a relaxed meeting space where students can network and discuss ideas over a cup of coffee. Meanwhile, our intensive Startup Garage Bootcamp allows participants to develop their business ideas, sharpen their pitching skills, and compete for funding to bring their projects to life.
Drivhuset Stockholm is making Flemingsberg a launchpad for young entrepreneurs from Södertörn University who are driven to make a difference. We warmly invite all students to step into our community and, together, create a future full of possibilities – because the entrepreneurship of tomorrow starts here!
Test your business idea: Flemingsberg Science Award Startup open for applications
STARTUP is a competition for startups with a clear connection to Flemingsberg, either as students, residents or otherwise active in the area. All ideas are welcome to participate in STARTUP as long as you compete with your own idea and the turnover and external equity is below SEK 1,000,000 at the time you submit to the competition. After that, we of course welcome you to continue working with the business idea, sales and any investments.
Science Week: Innovative arenas create collaboration for the city of the future
Stockholm is growing and we want a smart city with knowledge-intensive industry that is sustainable. In a panel discussion during Science Week on February 1, we discuss how innovative neutral arenas are central to the development of the smart and knowledge-intensive city.
Our Sound Space – soundscapes in cities
Don’t miss the opportunity to experience an interactive sound installation at the same time as you contribute to research that improves the future of urban planning.
The Our Sound Space installation has now opened at Neo in Flemingsberg, which offers visitors the opportunity to use their smartphones to experiment with different sound environments and explore with soundscapes.
Our Sound Space is part of the Planning for Youth research project that aims to study methods and tools for meaningful participation of the younger demographic groups in participatory planning and placemaking. Romina Rodela is Docent at Södertörn University and project leader for the initiative. ““Historically, children and young people have not been very central in spatial planning. In our project, we want to explore new methods which are better able to capture their voice in spatial planning and placemaking,” says Rodela.
In this case, you use your smartphone to listen to how a new residential area will sound, for example. Which sounds are perceived as positive and which sound environments are less attractive? The idea is to give the planners of the future better tools to include children, young people and people with impaired vision or other functional variations in the planning stages of such projects. “We’ll use Our Sound Space to gather opinions from different groups to establish how effective a tool like this can be. At the same time, the installation is open to all to try out and comment on,” says Rodela. The software itself is developed by researcher Maurizio Goina at KTH and may in future be shared with planners, construction companies and architects.
Mattias Lindén is responsible for Hemsö’s properties in Flemingsberg and believes that installations such as Our Sound Space have the potential to improve the image of the area. “We’re sitting on an underused resource. In courtyards and along walkways there are areas that could be used for temporary art exhibitions – opportunities for as yet undiscovered artists to gain some exposure. We’ve just decided to support the Our Sound Space project. Imagine if people in the future will associate Flemingsberg with exuberant creativity, a place where you experience new and fresh ideas. Our Sound Space can be a small step in that direction,” says Lindén, Senior Property Manager at Hemsö. Our Sound Space runs until 7th March, while the research project will continue for another two years.
Let Flemingsberg Innovation Community elevate your idea
The Flemingsberg Innovation Community is a meeting place that brings together a range of organisations that provide various types of innovation support and assistance. Among them is Sting, which since its inception in 2002, has guided hundreds of startup companies to success.
