VINNOVA Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems www'vinnova'se

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VINNOVA Swedish Agency for
Innovation Systems
www.vinnova.se
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Sweden and Chile will concentrate our efforts
in finding opportunities for joint actions within
science and technology, IT, environment and
industrial development - Jan 6, 2003
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Innovation Systems a growth strategy for Sweden

• Santiago de Chile
• May 2004

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VINNOVAsmission

• To promote sustainable growth
• by developing effective innovation systems
• by funding mission oriented research

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Anders Flodström President of the Swedish Royal
Institute of Technology

• Innovation systems to me, is like managing a
  company. It is the input of knowledge and
  innovation that generates value and makes it
  profitable in the long run

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Too low output from RD investments in public
sector

• Increasing the return on RD investments is a
  major challenge for future growth in Sweden.

RD in big enterprises
RD in universities
Research institutions
SMEs
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Ulla-Britt Fräjdin-Hellqvist Director,
Confederation of Swedish Enterprise

• Swedish industry wish to have much more
  emphasis on mission-oriented RD.

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Increased return on RD investments

• Focus on mission-oriented research
• Invest in areas with a high growth potential
• Strengthen research component in innovation
  systems
• Promote a national system of incubators and
  seed-financing for stimulating new RD-based
  enterprises

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Five knowledge platforms

• Infrastructure effective transport systems
• Biotechnology
• Efficient product development
• IT implementation
• Learning and health in working life

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Centres of Excellencein RD - VINN-Excellence

• VINNOVA invest in special university centres
• based on close interaction between universities
  and companies,
• where people from companies and university
  collaborate directly in a VINN-Excellence Center

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Regional growth throughdynamic innovation
systems

• A new development initiated by VINNOVA in order
  to support
• Strong regional research innovation
  environments
• Regional profiling for global competitiveness
• Leadership involving research, enterprising and
  politics
• An infrastructure to promote growth
• Strong support from VINNOVA under a 10 year long
  process

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A competion with a few winners

• One of them was

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Northern EuropeFood Clusters for Innovation
Food industry turnover in this region 21 Million
USD South Sweden have 50 of total food
production in the country Major Swedish food R
D are located in this concentrated area
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The Food Innovation System

• Food Technology
• Food Engineering
• Logistics
• Packaging

• Marketing
• Brands
• Retailing
• Raw materials
• Consumer resesarch

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Core strategy

• Innovations in the border between
• scientific knowledge
• companies
• products services

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Another winner
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Other VINNOVA initativeIncrease growth in new
RD-based companies

• VINNOVA will carry out an initiative to develop a
  national system for incubators and seed-financing
  to promote this.

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Development of Innovation Systems Some
experiences from Sweden

• Work in close interchange beween RD, industry
  and the political/ /public arenas
• The history of competence and production is
  critical
• Strong leadership and entrepreneurial thinking
  is a must

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Prime minister Göran Persson again

• we together wish to promote the interchange
  of experience and transfer of technology
  especially between smal- and medium- sized
  companies in our two countries

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Lars FernvallDirector External
Affairslars.fernvall_at_vinnova.se

• Muchas Gracias!

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VINNOVA Swedish Agency for
Innovation Systems
www.vinnova.se