PowerUP - world-class game innovation

Important results from the project

Projektet PowerUP has enabled RISE to be a coordinating force to strengthen the gaming industry in Sweden. By collaborating in a national network with over 60 organizations and 150 people and developing a basis for the government around a national strategy with 17 recommendations, the project has delivered concrete results and been heard at a national level. The project has also reached out with dissemination, education and skills-building efforts and led to several new projects.

Expected long term effects

As the government is focuses on CCI in general and the Culture Committee has chosen to make gaming its special area in 2025, national work continues. Several follow-up projects are in motion at local, regional and national levels, and applications will follow that develop specific questions around ecosystems, incubation, funding, IP, sustainability and collaboration. Long term, the gaming industry as part of CCI has the opportunity to become a fully accepted basic industry and cultural form.

Approach and implementation

The project continued to develop the PowerUP network in a mix of knowledge dissemination, collaboration and active work to collect and discuss which issues were most urgent to include in a national strategy. This was then compiled by RISE and the computer games industry for feedback and finally into a report. Dissemination of both knowledge and ideas led to information efforts to actors outside the games industry and to project collaboration between actors in the network.