Industrial cooperation

ELLIIT’s main mission is to foster fundamental research. To accomplish this, one of our adopted goals is to have an impact on industry by educating the next generation of engineers and commercializing research results.

Our focus is on fundamental research, which in turn can support more applied projects and cooperation with industry. Exploitation activities primarily take place within bilateral agreements between the respective research groups and companies.

On this page, you will find details on industry cooperation and exploitation activities undertaken specifically within ELLIIT-funded projects and by the ELLIIT Recruited Faculty.

ELLIIT Sucess stories

Innovation and new businesses

Since the very beginning, ELLIIT researchers have worked in close collaboration and partnership with strong Swedish industry representatives in sectors such as automotive, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals.

In Sweden, the so called “Teacher’s Exemption” states that university employees and inventors generally own their own IP-rights. ELLIIT researchers have benefitted from this and are keen publishers of new patents. In some cases, the inventors have chosen to create new exiting business. Great examples of common projects and fruitful exchanges of ideas can be found in the ELLIIT Success stories.

Industrial Advisory Board

In addition to common research activities, the ELLIIT Industrial Advisory Board is a privileged interface for strategic discussions and advice.

The Industrial Advisory Board consists of representatives from six industry partners with high relevance for the ELLIIT environment. Ericsson, SAAB, ABB, Axis Communications, Scania and Schnider Electric. You can find the boardmembers under Organization.

Industry Forum

To further develop ELLIIT’s cooperation with industry, the Industry Forum has been formed as an informal association. It is open to everyone in the Swedish business community interested in ELLIIT’s activities. Initially, the forum focuses on companies in geographic proximity to Linköping/Norrköping, Lund, Karlskrona, and Halmstad. The forum complements the more formal role of ELLIIT Industrial Advisory Board.

The first planned activity with the forum was a breakfast meeting on January 25, 2024, at the Visionen Arena (Campus Valla, Linköping University), where four new ELLIIT infrastructure initiatives based at LiU were demonstrated.

Showcase of industrial cooperations

To read more about specific ELLIIT projects linked with industrial collaborations, you can click on the projects showcased below.

The names of the research projects are displayed together with the names of the industry partner(s).

Multistatic high-resolution sensing at THz

NKT High-Voltage Cables AB and SafeRadar AB

Ultra-Reliable Wireless for 6G Applications

Ericsson, Sony Europe, Volvo Cars, Terranet and Acconeer

Baseband Processing for Beyond 5G Wireless

Ericsson, Axis Communication, Sony mobile, National Instruments, AMD/Xilinx, Intel, STMicroelectronics, GlobalFoundries, Candence, Synopsys, RequTech, Forsway and Huawei

5G/6G Security

Axis, Advenica, Bosch, Saab, Sectra, Ericsson and Combitech

6G Wireless, Sub-Project: Vehicular Communications

Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Ericsson AB

Robust and Secure Control over the Cloud

Ericsson, ABB, Infor AB, Volvo, NIRA, and General Motors

Quality Assurance in Continuous Software Engineering

Axis Tetrapak, Sinch Sweden, Alstom, Sony, Danske Bank, Qlik, NordAxon, Telavox, Verisure Innovation, AppinMed, ICA Gruppen, SEB, RISE AB, Ericsson, and TestScouts

Cloud Tooling for Large-Scale Cyber-Physical System Model-Based Development

ABB Automation, Modelon, Cognibotics, Eectricit. de France, Reseau de Transport d’Electricite, Volvo Trucks, Santa Anna IT Research Institute, Research Institutes of Sweden, Swegon, Siemens Energy AB

Collaborative Robotics

Saab, Saab-Combitech, and Saab Kockums

Geometrically Constrained Learning for Vision

Zenseact, Saab, Husqvarna, Deep Forestry AB, Maxar Sweden, SICK IVP, IKEA, Arriver (Qualcomm), Trafikverket, Scania, Axis and Volvo Cars

Local Positioning Systems

Spiideo, Terranet, Combain Mobile, Combain Mobile, bitcraze, Sony, Ericsson, Volvo Cars, Zenseact, and ARM

Visual Feature Based Data Reduction

Oticon’s Eriksholm Research Center

Autonomous Force-Aware Swift Motion Control

Toyota Material Handling, OMotion AB, Aimpoint AB, BorgWarner AB, Saab Kockums AB, Axis AB, Cognibotics AB, FOI, and MAX IV Laboratory

Information Handling in Industrial IoT

Tetra Pak, Volvo Cars, Volvo Construction Equipment, Sensative, Axis Communications, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Combitech, ORANGE, Sateliot, Collins Aerospace, and MCS-Datalabs