Lars Andersson

Suranaree University of Technology (Thailand)

Innovation and business developer, leader, lecturer, trainer, researcher, and coach with 25 years of experience in research based innovation and value creation combined with academic and student entrepreneurship. My toolkit is based in intellectual/intangible assets, intellectual property (IP), and innovation assessment and development, and in combining this with entrepreneurship, business models, value propositions, customer and market validation, tech-transfer, and the venture creation process.

My academic interest focuses on the roles universities play (or can play) in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, both as education institutions, including educating entrepreneurs, and as the source of new innovations. I'm particularly interested in IP regulation, IP policy, and IP strategy in relation to technology transfer and university spinoffs.

Currently residing in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, where I am the Assistant Director of Technopolis, heading a dedicated team at the Innovation & Intellectual Property Management Division, at the entrepreneurial university Suranaree University of Technology (SUT). My job at SUT is focused on the utilization of research, enabling societal impact, using inter alia IP as a tool for value creation, and I’m also a lecturer in e.g. IP strategies, value propositions and business modelling. In parallel with my academic life, I support my co-founders at Capaciton Ltd (and a few other ventures), and here I’ve learned a lot about batteries, charging, and battery handling but also energy efficiency and air conditioning in combination with IoT.

I have in different capacities been involved in establishing more than 40 ventures, 3 of them as co-founder and I have at a very close range worked with especially research-based innovation projects but also coached and educated entrepreneurs at Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University in Sweden, and with a focus on culture and experiences in Lillehammer, Norway.