Erik Bunis

Erik Bunis is the CEO of LänsTeknikCentrum AB (LTC). Länsteknikcentrum (LTC) was established in 1987 and coordinates and encourages cooperation between industry, trade, the universities and society as a whole for a well working regional innovation system. A special focus is put on supporting SMEs. LTC supports companies in their development through transfer of technology and business intelligence. Since the start-up LTC has facilitated a network of qualified resources from a wide range of organisations and institutes.

Erik Bunis has a technical background from both mechanical- and civil engineering and started his career as Research Engineer at Chalmers University of technology in Gothenburg. After that he worked with the industry as Marketing Manager of the Sapa-group. During the 1990s he had different roles in Almi, the Swedish Development Agency. Since 2000 he is in charge of LTC and in that position he has assumed the role of process manager of the regional innovation system ReFine. He is continuously supporting the establishment of different industrial clusters such as the cluster initiative "Kingdom of Aluminium", the Wood Product cluster and recently one of the members in the steering committees for GnoHow (polymer and screw-cutting cluster). Through the ACENET initiative, the Erik Network and the NOVAREGIO-project Mr. Bunis supports cross-border collaboration between European clusters and company networks.