AI in Action: Transforming Industry Through Scalable, Ethical and Sustainable Innovation
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| Coordinator | RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 1 000 000 |
| Project duration | May 2025 - October 2025 |
| Status | Ongoing |
| Venture | Advanced digitalization: System-changing initiatives |
| Call | Advanced digitalization: System-changing initiatives, pre-study project 2025 |
Purpose and goal
The proposed feasibility study aims to identify concrete barriers to AI adoption in Swedish industry, before and beyond the prototype. These barriers will be shared by industry partners themselves, who will be answering questionnaires and participate in individual interviews and workshops to extract challenges and opportunities. This information will then be used to cluster the identified barriers and create an implementation plan to address them through collaborative group work.
Expected effects and result
The first key result of this pre-study will be a catalog of identified barriers to AI implementation in Swedish industry, together with an analysis. The final deliverable will be a drafted strategic implementation plan of collaborations that addresses the identified barriers. This action plan will be the basis for the next phase of the project, that is planned to be carried out following the described 3-stages approach in the Vinnova call.
Planned approach and implementation
The project has four work packages (WP): WP0 Project Management (M1-M6). Goal: Effective coordination. WP1 Identification of Barriers and Tacit Knowledge Elicitation (M1-M3). Goal: Identify, analyze, and anticipate barriers to AI implementation in industry. WP2 Clustering activities (M2-M6). Goal: Develop a logic to address concrete barriers for AI implementation. WP3 Knowledge and Benefit Sharing (M1-M6). Goal: Ensure international collaborations, benefit sharing, and sustainability.