Case studies - Vinnova

ClimateWell in new markets

Published: 1/18/2010

The Swedish company ClimateWell, one of the most promising Clean-Tech companies in Europe, is now entering new markets with its solar-powered heating pump. ClimateWell has been financed by VINNOVA's program Forska&Väx.

Category: EU, CleanTech

TAT joins the 100 million club

Published: 1/3/2010

The mobile phone interface is very important – the unparalleled success of the iPhone leaves this in no doubt. The Astonishing Tribe, or TAT, is the name of a rapidly growing Swedish company which has now provided its technology for over 100 million mobiles.

Category: Information and Communications Technology, Services

Ericsson - Sweden envisions the future internet

Published: 7/3/2009

The increasing volume of YouTube viewers has speeded the creation of higher capacity Internet. Led by Ericsson, the Swedish electronics industry is working with European partners to increase the bandwidth by ten times. They want the world using Swedish technology to build tomorrow’s communications systems.

Category: Information and Communications Technology

Innovators Using New Materials to Build Growth

Published: 6/30/2009

One of them made their discovery by chance, the other through sheer hard work. Both can put their success down to research and their own keen foresight. Today, they operate two of Sweden’s hottest growth companies.

Category: Materials

Wingquist Laboratory - Coming togehther for smarter product development

Published: 7/14/2008

If Sweden is to deal with the competition from countries with lower costs we must be the best at productivity. The purpose of the research at Wingquist Laboratory is therefore to develop knowledge, methods and tools for a more cost-effective process of bringing out new products.

Category: Product Realisation

HELIX - Mobility promoting innovation

Published: 7/14/2008

How can we continue to learn and develop new ideas in our work? This is one of the questions to which the HELIX research centre wants to find an answer. The hypothesis is that it is a matter of how good we are at maintaining our mobility - in thought, action and work.

Category: Organisation and management, Health

Uppsala Berzelii Center - Quicker detection and possible cures

Published: 7/14/2008

Using biomarkers in the human body, neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's and ALS should be easier to detect.

Category: Biotechnology, Health

Acreo - Fibre optics – so much more than broadband

Published: 7/14/2008

For most people, fibre optics is a technology for sending high volumes of data traffic. But the fields of application are much greater; everything from sensors which inspect various processes to acting as a combined knife and cannula in surgical procedures.

Category: Information and Communications Technology, Research & Innovation Environments

Chase - Aerial systems to make daily life easier

Published: 7/14/2008

The Chase research programme will offer an innovative milieu for researchers and engineers from industry and universities. The aim is for research to rapidly result in new products to simplify our daily lives.

Category: Information and Communications Technology, Services

GigaHertz Centrum - Seeing through walls and keeping tabs on the climate

Published: 7/14/2008

The GigaHertz Center will develop energy-efficient electronics and mobile telecommunication, sensors and satellites for monitoring climatic impacts and compact radar systems for security cameras which can see through walls.

Category: Information and Communications Technology, Services

SAMOT - All in it together

Published: 7/14/2008

What makes us use public transport instead of going by car? And what will it take for us to find an underground journey pleasant and comfortable? These are just a few of the questions in focus for the SAMOT Center which is concentrating on service and market-orientated transport research.

Category: Services, Transportation, CleanTech

Centre for Sustainable Communications - Communication for innovation and wellbeing

Published: 7/14/2008

The Centre for Sustainable Communications will develop innovative communication services which can contribute to sustainable development. The aim is to stimulate innovation, reduce consumption of natural resources and enhance social wellbeing.

Category: Information and Communications Technology, CleanTech

Stockholm Brain Institute - Keeping 100 billion brain cells in order

Published: 7/14/2008

At the Stockholm Brain Institute, researchers will be investigating interactions in the brain between activity, feeling and memory. It is hoped this may lead to a greater understanding of the mechanisms behind diseases such as ADHD, dementia and schizophrenia.

Category: Biotechnology, Health

Antidiabetic Food Center - The right food instead of drugs

Published: 7/14/2008

Innovative new foods can be used to combat prevalent diseases like obesity, age-related diabetes and cardiovascular disorders. This is the aim of the research being run at the Antidiabetic Food Center, a VINN Excellence Center at Lund University.

Category: Biotechnology, Research & Innovation Environments

Triple Steelix - Steely growth

Published: 3/17/2008

Triple Steelix is a research and innovation environment for the successful steel industry in the Bergslagen region.

Category: Product Realisation, Materials

SenseAir - The scent of growth

Published: 3/14/2008

Carbon dioxide is used in coolants, as a disinfectant and to pump up the beer from the cellar in pubs. This useful gas is inexpensive, invisible and odourless, but at high concentrations it is also deadly.

Category: Product Realisation, International collaboration

EXSELENT - Safer pharmaceuticals, reduced climate impact

Published: 3/14/2008

EXSELENT develops zeolites, specially-designed small crystals with cavities that are tailored to size.

Category: Biotechnology, CleanTech

Impact Coating - Material worth its weight in gold

Published: 3/14/2008

Using titanium, silica and carbon, researchers in Linköping have created a new ceramic material that has revolutionary properties. Maxfas, as the material is called, has in just a few years given the company Impact Coatings a global market worth billions.

Category: Product Realisation, Materials

Fiber Optic Valley - Thin threads weave success

Published: 3/14/2008

Fiber Optic Valley is a test platform for the broadband society of the future. The objective is to become Europe’s centre for research, expertise and enterprise in the field of fibre optics by 2015.

Category: Information and Communications Technology

IMAGIC - New technology makes the invisible visible

Published: 3/14/2008

Our eyes help us to see the world around us, but they only register light within visible wavelengths. At the IMAGIC research centre, the industrial research institute Acreo is laying the foundations for the next generation of cameras so that we will also be able to register invisible radiation.

Category: Information and Communications Technology

SAFER - Collaborating for road safety that leads the world

Published: 3/14/2008

Sweden is a world-leader in the field of vehicle and road safety. We are already very good at minimising personal injuries in connection with road accidents by applying various technical methods and systems. Researchers will now work to extend these Swedish successes.

Category: Transportation

IperG - EU takes the lead with a new kind of game

Published: 3/14/2008

In the future, we will not only play computer games on our computers. We will also be able to meet our team-mates and opponents in reality in so-called “pervasive games”.

Category: Services, EU

Ortic - Olympic champion attracts automotive industry

Published: 3/14/2008

Following several years of research, Ortic has developed the world’s first machine for the three-dimensional rollforming of sheet steel made from the hardest forms of steel.

Category: Product Realisation, Materials

Creative Antibiotics - Non-aggressive pharmaceuticals fool bacteria

Published: 3/14/2008

A company from Umeå, Innate Pharmaceuticals, is developing new pharmaceuticals to combat infections. There is a great need for this as more and more bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics. This means that we need to find new ways of attacking infections – which is just what the company is offering.

Category: Biotechnology

Process IT- IT boosts heavy basic industries

Published: 3/13/2008

Companies in heavy industries such as steelmaking, mining and pulp production are under great pressure to be efficient and constantly develop their products in order to survive on the international market.

Category: Information and Communications Technology