Olink and Ulf Landegren winners of Innovation of the Year 2016
The company Olink and its founder Ulf Landegren have been selected as winners of the prize Innovation of the Year at the Entrepreneur Gala in Uppsala on 12 May.
Ulf Landegren has been the driving force for several successful commercialisations of research results. In addition to Olink he has also been involved in starting the companies Halo Genomics and Q-linea.
In the motivation for the prize Innovation of the Year it is stated ”Through his entrepreneurial spirit Ulf has shown an example as a role model and ambassador in his surrounding, constantly encouraging people around him to dare take research to business”.
Innovation of the Year is a new prize category at the Entrepreneur Gala in Uppsala and is intended to award an entrepreneur that has taken an innovation to the market, where it is judged to have growth potential. The innovation can be coming from a start-up enterprise or an established company.
More information:
Ulf Landegren’s research (Link removed)
Olink