Incubate your company
Here’s how the SmiLe Incubator program works in 4 simple phases. Evaluate, Verify, Develop, Grow. Join us now and get the process started.
Get individual support and guidance
Life science startups face unique business challenges and solutions, which is why we offer support and guidance based on your specific needs.
Benefit from bi-weekly meetings with a dedicated coach who follows your journey. Together we tailor solutions to your challenges to guide your business forward.
Expert resources to help you resolve key startup issues
Business Forum gathers all the expertise you need in one place to focus on your company’s specific challenges.
Business Forum is:
- A condensed business coaching forum where expert coaches meet to assess the problems of a specific company. The company presents its challenges/current situation at that forum.
- All experts have deep knowledge and experience from different aspects of life science and give valuable feedback by assessing the situation and suggesting solutions/action points.
- Regular Business Forum meetings have several outcomes including helping companies facing a particular challenge, checking on how things are going for each startup, and attempting to foresee and prevent any future problems.
- Our experts share their network as well as their expertise.
A complete program to help you prepare your strategies
Our Business Strategy Program teaches you how to think strategically and prepare to become the expert you need to be in your market to build a successful business.
We use traditional models like NABC /https://c84.io/nabc/ and real-world industry requirements. Most investors looking at life science companies will have due diligence criteria similar to NABC.
Connect with our wide market network of investors, international partnerships and market leaders.
We facilitate access and exposure to key local and international market players. We help you validate your business model, scale your operations and build the right partnerships. All to help sell your innovation/solution.
Make use of 300 m² core facility of 11 specialized laboratories and 1,700 m² of private laboratories so you can start working on your idea from day one – without having to invest in advanced instrumentation. It’s all there for you.
Work in the best facilities
Core facility and your own lab
Private laboratories with office and a Core facility with 10 shared labs
Core facility (shared)
You can access 11 specialized, well-equipped labs in our core facility.
Private laboratories
Private laboratories with office space – office space “attached” to the laboratory.
Pricing example:
- 8 sqm office – from 3,500 SEK per month
- 17 sqm laboratory with 6 sqm office – from 8,300 SEK per month
- Access to core facility and lab services from 2,000 SEK per month
- Per-use fee for advanced instruments
Included in the monthly fee:
- Lab coat laundry, low temperature storage (one rack per company), ice and ultra-pure water.
- Access to (pay-per-use): autoclaving service, dish washing service, dry ice, hazardous waste disposal.
- Access to our Lab Knowledge Base
List of labs & equipment
Our 11 specialized laboratories
- Cell lab for cell lines
- Cell lab for primary cells
- Noise lab
- Balances lab
- Histology lab
- Protein lab
- Mass spectrometry lab
- Chemical and Biological analysis lab
- Molecular biology lab
- Microscopy lab
- Wet lab
Plus a Lab data work station
Advanced Instrumentation including
- High content imaging – ImageXpress Pico
- Live cell imaging – HoloMonitor M4
- Mass Spectrometry – Agilent 6546 LC/Q-TOF, UPLC-PDA-Ion trap MS/MS and GC-MS
- Spectroscopy – FT-IR and Nanophotometer UV
- Microplate reader Spectramax i3- absorption, fluorescence and luminescence
- Flow Cytometry – CytoFLEX, B-R-V with 13 fluorescence channels
- Liquid chromatography – UPLC-PDA
- Automated tissue dehydration and embedding station
- Tissue sectioning – Microtome and Cryostat
- Liquid handling and automation- TECAN, 8 channel
- Fluorescent Microscopy- upright + inverted
- Automated cell counter-Nucleocounter
- High Speed Centrifuge, refrigerated
- Precision balances including Microbalance
- RT-PCR and PCR
SmiLe Lab Knowledge Base
Once you have settled in your new office and ready to start using the labs, you’ll need more information and guidance on how to:
- Find your way around the labs and equipment
- Learn the rules of the labs
- Get to know the instruments and how to use them
- Book an instrument
- Stay updated on the special offer form our suppliers
To facilitate your introduction to your new environment, and ensure continuous easy access to information, we created an online knowledge base tool that covers all your needs.
Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Martina Schneider
Senior Application Scientist
Per Brunmark
Director Core Facilities
SmiLe is located at Medicon Village – a vibrant life science cluster where the university, public sector and industry gather under one roof.
The village is a factory for the future, housing the complete chain from research through innovation to commercialisation.
At SmiLe, entrepreneurs build their ideas into companies and bring solutions for better health to the market.
Convenient office space
At SmiLe you can choose between shared and private office space with all services included.
There are shared conference and meeting rooms that you can book, and you can eat lunch and share experiences with other entrepreneurs in the common dining area & kitchen.
All the services you need
As a member of SmiLe Incubator you get access to all services & amenities at Medicon Village. These include:
- Labs & office spaces for scale-ups
- Meeting service
- Postal service
- Phone & IT service & support
- Car rental service
- Meeting rooms
- Restaurant & Bistro
- Gym & sports hall
- Sauna
Benefits of being part of the CEO group
- Access to our quarterly CEO lunches where you meet with other startup CEOs facing similar challenges, share news and discuss opportunities
- Access to an exclusive coaching group in collaboration with ALMI
- Receive regular business updates by our coaches to stay ahead of the game
Board Management platform by Invono One
Improve corporate governance. Invono One is a digital platform for the company’s owners, management, teams and external stakeholders that simplifies, streamlines, structures, quality assures and improves information sharing.
SmiLe Incubator member companies receive a favorable offer.
Conference discount
Through SmiLe Incubators partner network, we frequently receive discount on International as well as national congresses and partnering conferences.
Financial management course by StyrelseAkademien
(in Swedish only)
Ekonomi för beslutsfattare – eLearning i 4 moduler.
SmiLe Incubator members receive a substantial fee discount.
Ett digitalt kurspaket till dig som upplever att du behöver mer erfarenhet, genomslagskraft och tyngd i ekonomiska diskussioner – inte minst när du skall utvärdera de finansiella rapporterna du presenteras för i din styrelse.
Ekonomi för beslutsfattare – eLearning i 4 moduler.
SmiLe Incubator members receive a substantial fee discount.
Ett digitalt kurspaket till dig som upplever att du behöver mer erfarenhet, genomslagskraft och tyngd i ekonomiska diskussioner – inte minst när du skall utvärdera de finansiella rapporterna du presenteras för i din styrelse.
Free publicity & PR advice
Build marketing traction and get the publicity you need by publishing free press releases through SmiLe Incubator. Spread your news directly to the right channels using our online press release publishing tools – the easy way to getting noticed.
In addition, we help you with the whole process of writing news and press releases, everything from understanding what news is, to a journalist who can write your news and press releases, and advice and practical help on where, and who to send it to.
Market evaluation & analysis by Truly Labs
Understanding your market is key for success. SmiLe Incubator members receive a special deal and support from Truly Labs to conduct market analysis and research related to market situation, healthcare players, competitors and business activities and deals within the targeted area. Assessing the marketplace realities and monitoring disease area, treatments, market access and trends among others.
Media benefits by Life Science Sweden
The leading nordic life science media and event organizer, Life Science Sweden offers to SmiLe Incubator members:
25% discount on all print advertising and native articles in the Life Science Sweden magazine
15% discount on all of our event partner-packages (exhibitig and speaking slots). Click here to see the list of events.
For more information contact Business Development Manager, Maria Eriksson at maria.eriksson@nordiskemedier.se.
Medicon Valley Alliance free membership*
SmiLe members enrolled in the incubation program, are eligible to a free-of-charge membership in the organization Medicon Valley Alliance (MVA) and can benefit from the various events, offerings and networks arranged by MVA.
*the value of the membership is 10.000 SEK (7.300 DKK) plus 470 SEK (340 DKK) per employee
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Medicon Village – In residence companies
SmiLe Incubator members in residence will also benefit from Medicon Village offerings and services.
Medicon Village offers meetings and collaborations in an innovative life science environment as well as a unique growth environment for over 150 organizations in life science. Members benefits from seminars and events, as well as work out classes, a gym and restaurants.
Medicon Village offers meetings and collaborations in an innovative life science environment as well as a unique growth environment for over 150 organizations in life science. Members benefits from seminars and events, as well as work out classes, a gym and restaurants.
Mentor program by Astra Zeneca Exchange
SmiLe Incubator members will benefit from Astra Zenecas Exchange program: Business mentoring − supporting entrepreneurship and innovation in life science. By leveraging its industrial expertise in a business-to-business advisory model, AstraZeneca supports Nordic incubators and their start-ups via the AstraZeneca mentoring program.
Patent services by AWA*
Gain outside insight! Find new business opportunities based on your own patent portfolio! SmiLe Incubator members receive a one-year free subscription (following a ‘how to’ workshop) of PatAlert – an product offer from AWA.
PatAlert is a tool that helps you gain context awareness in order to find unknown business opportunities and detect potential risks early. PatAlert explores the unknown and keeps you up to date automatically via weekly alert-mails, stating all new inventions and activity that has a connection to your own patent portfolio.
The subscription includes weekly Alert-mails:
• Active players and new inventions in your field of tech
• Inventions close to/or based on your technology
• New inventions from your competitors
PatAlert is a tool that helps you gain context awareness in order to find unknown business opportunities and detect potential risks early. PatAlert explores the unknown and keeps you up to date automatically via weekly alert-mails, stating all new inventions and activity that has a connection to your own patent portfolio.
The subscription includes weekly Alert-mails:
• Active players and new inventions in your field of tech
• Inventions close to/or based on your technology
• New inventions from your competitors
*the value of the annual subscription is € 2400 (SEK 25.500)
Pitching & presentation
Supplier network by Manufacturing Guide
Get access to a niche network of innovation support suppliers! SmiLe Incubator members have access to the Manufacturing Guide, a tool that connects product ideas with the Swedish industry. It provides better conditions to match your product ideas with Swedish developers and manufacturers.
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Bike rentals by SmiLe
Need a bike to commute in Medicon Village or wider Lund area during business days? Click here to book one of the two SmiLe bikes for free!