ALMINICA
Alminica AB
ALMINICA is a SME active in innovation capacity building from nanotechnology and advanced materials, in particular in the Research & Innovation (R&I) domain. The innovation aspect is considered in broader context, such as regional and topical. Thus research, innovation and technology can be understood how it is motivated in larger context. That creates synergies between technology and economic growth. Typically technology is described to establish value chain by project partners. The efforts to create more regional economic growth is gathering several stakeholders in similar field. That is basically also a value chain. ALM facilitates how to understand in which ways the technology and regional economic growth can have synergies.
The R&I experience is from more than 20 years in SiC materials research and creating usefulness from research findings (technology transfer, start-ups, etc). ALM has since 2013 been involved with Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS) in the focus area “advanced materials”. Smart Specialisation is of particular importance for growth of Europe as European Commission has launched Smart Specialisation as innovative approach/strategy to bring together local authorities, academia, business and society to boost growth and jobs in Europe (read more about RIS3 here, https://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/).
Within rePowerSiC, Alminica is working in WP6 where it is responsible for the development of innovation management tools, training and exploration of synergies with Smart Specialisation for innovation capacity building in respect to regional economic growth and sharing practices and knowledge of capacity building in transition of innovations and innovators going from research to industry.
Our team
Mikael Syväjärvi
Mikael Syväjärvi’s Experience in research in growth of energy and environmental materials such as silicon carbide and graphene since 1995. Since 2005 he has an entrepreneurial research profile in commercialization of materials innovations and has made several spin-off companies or technology transfers based on new growth methods. He has several years of experience with policy implementation of advanced materials and technologies, such as regional capacity building by smart specialisation in European context, Baltic Sea Region projects, national Swedish innovation programmes, involved in first stage of Graphene Flagship, establishing materials arenas and clusters, etc.
Abhay Chatterjee
Abhay Chatterjee holds a Master’s degree in Sustainable Energy Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where his thesis focused on measuring the environmental impact of a carbon capture system integrated with a dehumidification system. He joined R&D Alminica to contribute to the RePowerSiC project, working on close space PVT growth, knowledge transfer, and exploitation activities. Within the project, his role is in Work Package 2, focusing on sustainability aspects of silicon carbide manufacturing processes, with particular attention to life cycle assessment and process development in close space PVT configuration.