SWARCO JOIN&GROW offers clients and partners a platform for joint product and process development
​​​​​​​for new industrial applications in the relevant target markets.

You can submit innovative ideas for products, cooperation in technology or in opening up new markets,
R&D projects, services, or even your ready-to-market product idea.
Anything that caters to the needs of our clients – potential or actual – along our
overall value chain can be submitted.

For SWARCO Advanced Industry Systems, the field is open:

• New application ideas for existing SWARCO products
• Innovations in production processes within the industry/at SWARCO
• Applications of special glass, whether round or granular
• Applications of rounded particles made from different raw materials

• Ideas, projects and innovations based on confidential information.
• Confidential information and documents
• Ideas, projects and innovations that are not yours, and which infringe on someone’s IP rights.

Anyone who wishes to conduct an innovation project together with SWARCO.
Our platform is open to companies from start-ups or small enterprises all the way to corporations,
whether they have a client or supplier relationship with SWARCO or no previous contact, as well as academic institutions, universities, research institutes, NGOs, and many more. 

Ideas can be submitted through the SWARCO website.
​​​​​​​If you do not want to submit your idea and prefer to start by talking to one of our experts, that is also a possibility.

In order to understand your idea and assess whether it is of interest to us, we need a short but convincing description of your idea. Please upload it in a PDF format along with the submission form.

Your description should contain:

• A description of the innovation
• What makes this innovation unique?
• What is new in this innovation?
• What is the benefit for the customer compared with existing solutions?
• How are IP rights distributed?
• What is the current status of your idea/project? Has some preparatory work been carried out?

When making your submission, you can attach additional explanatory documentation to provide
our experts with extra information (e.g. photos, technical drawings, patent information, test reports, etc.)

Please note that all documents provided as part of your submission will be considered
non-confidential and are not subject to any obligation of confidentiality.
If any document is labelled as confidential, secret or similar, we will not take it into account.
In that case, we will not be able to process your submission further, and we will have no choice but to reject it.

No, your submission will not be subject to any obligation of confidentiality. Please note that all documents provided as part of your submission will be considered non-confidential and are not subject to any obligation of confidentiality. If any document is labelled as confidential, secret or similar, we will not take it into account. In that case, we will not be able to process your submission further, and we will have no choice but to reject it.

If you want to speak with our experts before making your submission, please indicate this in your submission form.

If preliminary discussions result in an interest to continue and there is a need to enter into a non-disclosure agreement, this is something we can discuss.

Yes, but your submission has to be approved through our evaluation process first.
​​​​​​​Then, further phone calls, or online or in-person presentations can be arranged. 

The evaluation process can take anywhere from 2 to 6 weeks.
Once it has been completed, we will contact you with the result.
​​​​​​​If further questions arise in the meantime, one of our experts will contact you.

Each submission is assessed by a JOIN&GROW project manager
and forwarded to an expert from the relevant industrial area.

The expert checks the idea against technical, economic, strategic and ecological criteria,
and decides to approve or reject it together with an internal idea committee.

This process can take anywhere from 2 to 6 weeks.
If further questions arise in the meantime, one of our experts will contact you.

The decision to admit an idea into the JOIN&GROW programme
is taken by an expert and the internal idea committee.

If the evaluation results in a positive decision, we will let you know and send you the related information,
and an expert will contact you by e-mail or call you to discuss the next steps.

These are individually tailored to the resulting project that can be set up in each particular case.

The resulting project or the next steps of a business cooperation can be quite varied in nature –
from cooperating on product development, a joint consortium for a funded project, licensing a product idea or signing a supply contract to engaging in strategic cooperation or other options.

There are many possibilities that can be considered.

The decision to admit an idea into the JOIN&GROW programme is taken
by an expert and the internal idea committee.

If the evaluation and the corresponding decision are negative,
we will let you know and provide you with a short justification.

However, we also reserve the right to reject a submission without justification.

• The idea is not adapted to the business areas that SWARCO Advanced Industry Systems is operating in.
• The idea is not new and already known.
• We already have our own project or a joint project in this particular area.
• There could be a potential infringement of proprietary rights or such infringement has not clearly been ruled out.
• The idea’s potential is not compatible with what is envisioned in our strategic business plans.
• The idea is at odds with our company values.

However, we also reserve the right to reject a submission without justification.

Ideas for basic scientific research