Svenska Uppfinnareföreningen
Lidingö, Sweden
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Founded in 1886, Svenska Uppfinnareföreningen is a non-profit association based in Lidingö, Sweden working on disability.
Svenska Uppfinnareföreningen (SUF) is a Swedish non-profit association for inventors, innovators and small businesses. It operates on a voluntary, public-benefit and politically non-partisan basis. Its national office is in Stockholm, and local member associations across Sweden, from Malmö to Boden, support inventors with advice, coaching, mentoring and networking. SUF also runs grant and prize schemes, including the SKAPA innovation prizes and a grant competition for assistive devices, and provides template agreements and guidance for inventors. Founded in 1886 by Salomon August Andrée, it describes itself as the world's oldest inventors' association.
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SKAPA
Other · Sweden
Swedish innovation prizes, awarded by a foundation established in 1985 in memory of Alfred Nobel. The prizes honour people whose behind-the-scenes work was essential to a commercially successful project. Svenska Uppfinnareföreningen is one of the foundation's backers.
Bidragsstiftelsen inventor competition for assistive devices
Disability · Sweden
A competition run with Bidragsstiftelsen that awards development grants, totalling 150,000 SEK per year, for new everyday aids for people with mobility impairments.
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Almi, VINNOVA, PRV, Romanusfonden, Agne Johanssons minnesfond, Tekniska museet, Bidragsstiftelsen, idefendo
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