Exploring how government agencies can foster greater innovation at all levels.
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Exploring how government agencies can foster greater innovation at all levels.
Head of Strategic Partnerships and International Relations
AI Sweden
Global Head Export Promotion
Business Sweden
Head of Department International Cooperation
Vinnova
Sweden's Innovation Agency
Senior Advisor Innovation
Formas
Director of Strategic Partnerships
SISP Swedish Incubators & Science Parks
Ignite Sweden
Senior Business Developer
Swedish Energy Agency
The Swedish government agencies Vinnova, Swedish Energy Agency and Formas are joining forces within the new innovation system, Impact Innovation. The goal is to support businesses, academia, the public sector and civil society in meeting societal challenges of today, as well as for the future. Impact Innovation requires actors within the Swedish innovation system to contribute to global competitiveness through a clearly stated direction and transformation towards sustainable development. Impact innovation will address areas of broad societal relevance to ensure greater systemic effects. We welcome you to join the Director Generals of these government agencies in enabling innovation for Swedish actors in the absolutely broadest sense.
In these troubled times the need for impactful innovation that brings real value to society and sustainability, as well as the need for increased competitiveness throughout Europe is more important than ever. The European commission has taken important steps during the last years towards these goals.
The ability to envision alternative futures is a superpower that can give us surprising and even radical new ideas on what to do today in order to create a sustainable future. To take agency of the future, realising that the future is not something that just happen to us, but in fact is what we make it into. As food for thought, we will share a scenario of an alternative future, to carry the question "what if" through the day. A piece of gravel in the shoe that disturbs, a seed of hope that can grow - a vision of what might become, or not, to provoke feelings and insights which lays the foundation of a dialogue.
Breakthrough Energy’s (BE) aim is to inspire the world to develop and scale the critical solutions we need to reach net-zero emissions—so everyone can enjoy affordable, abundant clean energy. BE is very engaged in the Nordics by, for example, supporting the recently launched coalition of investors Cleantech for Nordics. However, despite Sweden being European Innovation Leader again and again, BE encourages more engagement to push the climate agenda forward during the EU presidency 2023.
The research and innovation programme Advanced Digitalisation aims to accelerate Sweden’s ability to develop and use new digital technologies. The programme is a unique collaboration between Swedish industry and the Swedish government and started 2021 by ABB, Ericsson, Saab, the Association of Swedish Engineering Industries and Vinnova, with the vision of a clear digital leadership. Learn more about the programme, collaborations in new ecosystems and what is required to continue enabling innovation.
Director & Head of Industrial Technology Division
Vinnova
Sweden's Innovation Agency
Vice President Global Innovation
Saab AB
Director Research Partnerships and Ecosystems
Ericsson
Senior Principal Scientist - Applied Analytics, AI-Lead
ABB Sweden
Given increased competition, technology development and other challenges, we need to develop new ways of workplace learning. Industry and higher education institutions are key players to solve the challenges by strengthened collaborations in education, research and innovation.
PhD, Senior Expert HEI, Research and Innovation
Vinnova
Sweden’s Innovation Agency
Professor of Education
Director of Encell
Jönköping University
Global Head of Learning, Capability Enablement & Certification
Ericsson GF Learning & Development
Professor
Linköping University
Formas - a government research council for sustainable development, Vinnova - Sweden's innovation agency and the Swedish Energy Agency will engage in a panel discussion about the benefits of collaborating across agencies in the European Partnership Program Driving Urban Transitions (DUT). The panel will explore how such R&I instruments can be used to ensure innovative solutions towards a climate-neutral society reach the market and how this is preferably done in collaboration with academia, cities, companies, and various citizens’ initiatives.
Programme Manager
Vinnova
Sweden's Innovation Agency
Senior Research Officer
Formas, a Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development
CEO of the Driving Urban Transitions Partnership
FFG / JPI Urban Europe
Senior Adviser
Swedish Energy Agency
The National Incubator Programme has been an important enabler for innovative ideas to grow. Learn more about the programme development, results and future possibilities.
The need for electricity is constantly rising all over the world. This comes with great challenges. How much electricity do we actually need? How do we need to collaborate to find sustainable solutions that guarantee the security of supply? In this panel we show pathways on how to innovate when the time frame is limited.
International Coordinator
Research & Innovation
Swedish Energy Agency
Analyst
Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies, Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Head Sustainable Business Development Unit
Swedish Energy Agency
Head of Unit Strategy and Foresight
Svenska kraftnät
In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals gave us a comprehensive plan for a sustainable world by 2030. The 17 goals cover a wide range of issues that involve people with different needs, values, and convictions. There is a vision of what needs to happen but progress is slow. The Inner Development Goals aim to provide a framework to help individuals and organisations become more effective in the work towards greater sustainability and well-being.
Conclusions and summary from the day's moderators as well as some reflections from Joakim Skog about the What if scenario from earlier in the program. What thoughts and insights did the scenario provoke? Did anything you've seen and heard the last hours confirm or contradict? We listen to input from the audience and try to find our way forward.
Over the past years, many European countries have developed initiatives to support startups in their growth journey. Regina Summer will moderate this conversation.
Head of Division Startup Policy, Digital Hub Initiative
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Germany
Director of Strategic Partnerships
SISP Swedish Incubators & Science Parks
Ignite Sweden
Interim CEO & Program Manager
SISP & Ignite Sweden
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