Lars Erik Lundberg Foundation for Research and Education

The Lars Erik Lundberg Foundation for Research and Education supports projects that bring together the fields of engineering/natural science and economic disciplines and thereby focus on the role of technology for the competitiveness of enterprises. This area includes research with a business administration and technology orientation that addresses the dynamics in the building and exploiting of the operational and strategic capabilities of businesses. Projects involving research on production and product development processes also fit into this area, as do projects relating to the conditions which are fundamental for innovative business climates, entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship.

Projects that hold distinct and novel research questions that also appear to be answerable with the proposed research methods have precedence, as do the projects that clearly identify the knowledge platform on which they are based, and how they can be expected to move the research front forward.

Grants can be paid to senior researchers, as well as postdocs and PhD students. Support is normally issued for a project period of 1-3 years. However, the funding of doctoral projects can also be extended to cover a continuous four-year period (“Lars Erik Lundberg’s PhD position”). A guideline for the amount granted is 1-1.5 million SEK per year for one, two and three-year projects and 4 million SEK in total for a four-year doctoral project. Salaries of appointed/employed professors are not financed by the project grant, but associate professors (“biträdande professor”) and emeritus professors can be financed that way.

All applications regardless of time span must follow the instructions for stage 1 and stage 2.

Usually around two to four research projects are granted funding each year.