How is the government’s national innovation strategy going to stimulate innovation in the Kalmar region? What can we do in order to encourage more people to develop their ideas for new products and services in the region? These issues were the starting point for the Tuesday conference Innovationskraft Sverige – tillväxt och utveckling i Kalmar län [Innovative force Sweden – growth and development in the Kalmar region].

Four girls have accepted the challenge and decided to enter the lifestyle competition arranged by the Student Welfare Office and Olympen. They choose to decline alcohol for five weeks and to party sober.

The role of the librarian as a researcher’s best friend and guide to research databases and publication tools is changing as the technical development accelerates. Universities, and as a result university libraries, are run in ever more business-like forms. What do librarians think of these changes? This is something that Joacim Hansson, professor in Library and Information Science at Linnaeus University, and Dr. Krister Johannesson at the University of Skövde, asked themselves.

The room IKEA-salen was filled to the very last seat when Prince Daniel’s Fellowship and entrepreneurship programme made a visit to the university. Prince Daniel, Filippa Knutsson (founder of Filippa K) and Johan Skarborg (CEO Academic Work) gave an inspirational lecture on entrepreneurship. The visit was arranged by IVA (Royal Swedish Academy of Engineerig Sciences) in collaboration with Linnaeus University and Drivhuset.