This creates the foundations for personal contacts, access to supplementary expertise and research equipment and an exclusive position for recruiting and developing qualified staff. Volvo, Bofors and SKF are just three of these companies. The Chalmers Science Park is a genuine science park where the atmosphere is international and open.
Operations focus on applied research rather than development work.
Most of the others are MScEng, about 50 of whom are post-graduate students. The Chalmers Science Park is situated in the southern part of the Chalmers campus. There are also a large number of spin-off companies at Chalmers and some of them rent premises at the Stena Center, situated in the northern part of the Chalmers campus. The Stena Center is linked to Chalmers Innovation . The Chalmers Science Park foundation runs no operations which link the researchers at Chalmers University of Technology to companies outside the science park.