Companies

Ideon was started for the purpose of creating successful companies from the enormous wealth of knowledge and ideas that existed - and exists - within Lund University. This vision was realised and, over the years, a long list of visionary companies has developed at Ideon, such as Ericsson Mobile Communications, Axis, Opsis, Framfab, Anox/Kaldness, AU-System, Anoto, BioInvent, Scalado, Apptus, Glycorex, Oliktechn, Exensor and Probi. And more are on the way.

During its first 28 years, more than 900 companies have operated at Ideon. Seventy-six per cent of Ideon companies have, over the years, had some kind of connection with Lund University.

At the start, biotechnology/pharmaceuticals/functional food was dominant among the large number of sectors represented. In 1999, information technology took the lead and today about 40% of the Ideon companies represent this area, in combination with telecom. Nanotechnology is now included in many multisector companies, and a new category is rapidly gaining ground – cleantech. Ideon Science Park also accommodates a number of service companies, all of which help to ease the day-to-day work for the Ideon businesses.

There are now about 260 companies with a total of 2,000 employees at Ideon Science Park.