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European Entrepreneurship and Innovation Thought Leaders (ME421)
Stanford Engineering
January 28 2013 Slide 1
Sweden and Its Innovation System:
A Brief Introduction
Anne Lidgard
Director, Silicon Valley Office
From violent to peaceful
Ola Ericson/imagebank.sweden.se Henrik Trygg/imagebank,sweden.se
Largest number of global companies per capita
Mobile telephony
Pacemaker
Dialysis
machine
Bluetooth Z
ipper
Safety
match
Celsius thermometer
Adjustable
wrench
Color screen
Graphics for computers
Tetra Pak
Modern
refrigerator
Vacu
um
cle
an
er
3-point
safety belt Dynamite Lo
sec
AGA Lighthouse
Ball
bearing
Blo
wto
rch
Welding
helmet
Rear-facing child safety seat
Screw
propeller
Skype Hasselblad camera
Plastic plug
Ult
ras
ou
nd
Spotify
AX
E s
wit
ch
Tooth implants Xylocain
Innovated in Sweden…
Metro
All this while less than
0.15% of the world’s
population is actually
Swedish.
0.14%
But Sweden was a poor, impoverished,
agrarian country just over 100 years ago
From 1880-ies to 1930, about 1,5 million (25% of the
population) emigrated, most to North America.
Slide 6
www.investswe
den.se
7
Source: Eurostat, June 2012
GDP growth in selected countries
1998–2012, average annual change, percent
Inflation rate
1998-2012 annual average, percent
Strong and Stable Economy
Source: OECD, June 2012
…the competition increases (Annual growth of GDP)
Bild 8
10,5% 4,4% 1,7% 9,7%
2010
Political focus
Education
Infrastructure
Research and innovation
Open borders
Equality
Cooperation
Critical thinking
Diversity
Open and international climate
Non-hierarchical organizations
Delegated responsibilty
Encourage children’s play
A culture nurturing innovation
Total R&D expenditure in relation to GDP, 2010
Source: OECD, MSTI 2012
0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0
Italy
Spain
Norway
United Kingdom
Ireland
China
Canada
Netherlands
Belgium
Singapore
France
Austria
Germany
United States (2009)
Taiwan
Switzerland (2008)
Denmark
Japan
Sweden (2011)
Korea
Finland
Israel
Percent of GDP
Business enterprise
Higher education
Government sector
Other organisations
Sweden ranks high in innovation and competitiveness
Innovation Union Scoreboard
2011
Global Competitiveness Index
2012/2013
Switzerland Switzerland
Sweden Singapore
Denmark Finland
Germany Sweden
Finland Netherlands
Belgium Germany
United Kingdom United States
Iceland United Kingdom
Netherlands Hong Kong
Austria Japan
Source: European Innovation Scoreboard 2011 and World Economic Forum, Global Competitiveness Report 2012/13.
Swedish rank per dimension in Innovation Union
Scoreboard 2011
Source: Innovation Union Scoreboard 2011
Dimension Main type Rank
Human Resources Enabler 1
Open, excellent & attractive research
systems
Enabler 3
Finance and support Enabler 1
Firm investments Firm activities 1
Linkages & entrepreneurship Firm activities 4
Intellectual assets Firm activities 2
Innovators Output 10
Economic effects Output 8
Sweden´s Innovation Agency
Reports to the Ministry of Enterprise,
Energy and Communications
Annual budget: 350 Mn USD
Number of staff: 200
Offices in Stockholm, Brussels and
Silicon Valley
Mission: To develop Sweden’s innovation capacity for
sustainable growth and for the benefit of society
Slide 16
Innovation
capacity Infrastructure
for innovation
Eg Test Site Sweden,
Living Labs
Innovation procurement
University Tech transfer
capacity
Policy development
Global links
Investing in R&I Innovation
capacity in
SMEs How?
Eg. Challenge
driven innovation
What? Research &
Grow
ICT
Services
Manufacturing
Health
Innovation
Management
Transport
Universities
Slide 17
31 Higher Education
Institutions
21 have the right to award
post-graduate degrees
Pioneered on-line education
Uppsala University oldest,
founded in 1477.
Many courses now taught in
English
Triple helix-based nodes in regional
innovation systems
43 Business Incubators (accelerators),
33 Science Parks,
12 Regional Seed Capital Funds
Focus on processes,
commercialization and renewal of
businesses
5000 growth companies with 72,000
employees
Swedish Incubators & Science Parks
19
Acquisitions: Online Video
Conferences, VoIP tech,
online statistics viewer
Nordic R&D Center
Mobile Development
Center
Acquisitions in STB
Development
Center
Mobile R&D Centers in
Stockholm,Gothenburg
and Lund
Acquisitions: UI and
Online Video Editing
Acquisition:
Logipard Acquisitions: Face
Recognition and
3D map
technologies
Acquisition: System Simulation
Android Center of Excellence
Acquisition: Swiftfoot
Graphics
Equity invest: Tobii
Northern European S&M HQ
Datacenter
Acquisition: NanoRadio
Acquisition: CoreSonic
Equity
investment:
Videoplaza
Acquisition:
Scalado
Low power & cost rural base
stations development
Acquisition: Saab
Ericsson Space
Keep an eye out for these!
Anticipated 1Bn USD-exits +
Slide 20
Many interesting prospects
Tripbirds, Rebtel, Wrapp,
Tictail,CLX Networks, Cint,
Desmo, Graphensic,
Heliospektra, Neo
Technology, Organoclick,
Peepoople, Protaurius,
Voddler, Atlas Antibodies,
Algoryx, and of course:
Senion Labs!
To summarize:
Slide 21
Technologically advanced
Skilled and well educated population
Societal values striving towards openness and peaceful, sustainable living
Strategically located:
• Stockholm-SF 5142 miles
• Stockholm-Beijing 4420 miles
• SF-Beijing 5918 miles
Sweden
Silicon Valley China
