Information
Roadmaps for strategic technologies
Sweden needs to strengthen and gear up its technology leadership in areas that are crucial for Swedish competitiveness and societal development. Vinnova's roadmap report is a national investment agenda for Swedish technology leadership, with concrete initiatives to develop, scale up and use strategic technology.
What is a roadmap?
Vinnova's roadmaps for strategic technologies are an investment plan that shows what Sweden should invest in in order to become a leading technology nation.
The roadmaps should:
- Facilitate investments in research and innovation
- Coordinate resources and collaborations
- Create good conditions for long-term Swedish technology leadership
- Ensure that national initiatives are linked to the EU.
The roadmap is in the form of a report with concrete and costed initiatives to develop, scale up and use strategic technologies in Sweden. They are produced in the framework of a government assignment and shall be reported annually until 2028. The first efforts are proposed to start in 2027/2028.
The roadsmaps were presented on October 13 at a digital seminar.
A three-part national investment agenda
The roadmap spans widely, from policy and national investments to advanced research and infrastructure.
Why does Sweden need roadmaps?
Global competition for strategic technologies is intensifying. Other countries are now investing large resources in research, innovation, skills development, infrastructure and industry to strengthen competitiveness, climate transition, security and resilience.
Sweden has strong research, innovative companies and internationally competitive technology environments. But individual strengths are not enough. We need to be better at developing, scaling up and using strategically important technology and gathering investments and efforts around long-term priorities.
The roadmaps connect and strengthen Swedish strong initiatives, actors and policy instruments. They also identify gaps and the need for new efforts.
What will the roadmaps lead to?
The roadmaps will pave the way for stronger interaction from research and innovation to demonstration, scale-up and deployment. They will also increase Sweden's ability to mobilise the state, industry, academia and the public sector around joint long-term objective.
The roadmaps link Swedish priorities and investments to the EU's strategic initiatives. Then Sweden can mobilise European funding and collaboration, build Swedish nodes in common infrastructures and value chains and take leading roles in European initiatives.
How the roadmaps have been developed
Proposals and work has been based on:
- existing roadmaps
- strategies and initiatives and is based on Vinnova's analyses of strategic technologies
- international policy and investment comparisons,
- IVA's initiative Swedish Futures
- AI-supported analysis of more than 2,000 Swedish and international roadmaps, strategies and agendas.
Dialogs and workshops have been conducted with over 200 people from industry, academia, institutes, the public sector, industry and stakeholder organisations, investors and other parts of the innovation system. Proposals and route choices have also been tested through written input and two open questionnaires.
About the assignment
The Roadmap Report is part of the Government's assignment to Vinnova to strengthen Sweden's long-term technology leadership. The assignment is linked to the investment in excellence clusters for strategic technologies, which will be developed until 2028. The mission will contribute to strengthening Sweden's competitiveness, security, resilience and position in future global value chains.
Government Mission on Excellence Clusters for Breakthrough and Strategic Technologies
Questions?
Göran Marklund
Director and deputy Director General for external matters
Last updated 14 October 2026