1999 – Opening of Stena Center

1997 the Holtermanska real-estate was acuired, renovated and yielded the official opening of “Stena Center” in May 5, 1999. The properties history goes all the way back to 1890, when it was instigated by a donation from Holterman, and was used as a hospital during the first half of the century.

2000 – Additional spaces, Lindholmen Center

During the year 2000 a second entity, Lindholmen Center, was started by Chalmers Innovation. A stimulating environment buildt on the former harbour area, Lindholmen. Today Lindholmen is a hub for IT, telecom and media in Gothenburg with company establishments such as LM Ericsson, IBM and Semcon. As the surrounding area insinuates, Lindholmen Center commits itself to ideas within IT and telecom.

2001 – Not only advisors

Between 1999 and 2001, Chalmers Innovation commited itelf to the start-up of 29 new companies. We co-acted with the companies, by being advisors, and affected the development through giving inspiration and supplying our comapnies with a network of professional players whom were established in the innovation system.

In 2001 the Chalmers Innovation pre-incubator activities were initiated and enabled a possibility of direct investment into our companies. From being just advisors and landlords we went to becoming investors which gave us opportunities to actively catalyze our companies future development. This has also enabled us to work more actively and engage ourselves in the companies.

2002 – Investment partner

Since 2002 Chalmers Innovation has been Innovationsbrons (www.innovationsbron.se) investment partner. This means that a company within Chalmers Innovation has access to yet another 1 MSEK in investment capital. 

2003 - Awared the price "Best Science Based Incubator on Return on Public Investment"

2006 - System OK sold to Nasdaq-listed Sonic Solutions

2008 - Chalmers Innovation Seed Fund established

2009 - Processes and work procedures are being changed

In September 2009 Chalmers Innovation will go from, as earlier, having 3,5 years as maximum incubation period to have Objective Oriented Planning for our incubatees. This will facilitate our planning, result in a more effective incubation period and can easily be integrated with tools, templates and recommendations to our incubator companies.