Innovation race led to 19 innovations
The Swedish Energy Agency's event led to 19 innovations. Among them several aimed at a more efficient use of energy: a method to reuse waste water in the kitchen, a refrigerator that uses the cool outdoor air and a laptop that can be charged with with solar energy.
Five applications for patents were sent in. The appliciation for the "grey water collector" was turned in in China, the others in Sweden. Another 14 innovationer were presented.
- It has been a fantastic journey that shows what is possibe to achieve in only 72 hours if you are focused and gather people with different experiences and backgrounds, says project leader Christopher Waldén at the Swedish Energy Agency.
There were two teams in the innovation race with participants from both Sweden and China. The race not only showed haw fast innovations can be made but also the advantages with cooperations between countires and cultures. The teams competed against the clock, not against each other.
- You canot sit and wait for inspiration. You have to work methodically to reach a good result, says professor Kaj Mickos who is the inventor ofthe concept "72 hour race to Innovation".
The participants in the race were: Håkan Glanton Lutz, CEO Vehiconomics AB, Mattias Karls, CEO Applied Nano Surfaces Sweden AB, Albert Mihranyan, researcher at Uppsala Universitet, Professor Semida Silveira, KTH, Professor Yu Luyan, Shanghai and Zheng Weng, engineer, Tekfors. Anette Persson, Senior adviser, and Andreas Stubelius, business developer at the Swedish Energy Agency .
The work in the teams was led by a procesleader and two designers helped to put the ideas onto paper. People from the Swedish Energy Agency, The Swedish trade Council and IPQ worked in the back office to support the teams in other ways, for example by scanning the market options for defferent ideas and looking up current patents.
Read more about the Swedish Pavilion at the world expo and the race.
