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Selection criteria for IVA’s 100 List

IVA’s 100 List promotes researchers who wish to make greater contact with the business community and social actors. The selection is therefore not based on the scientific excellence of the research, but primarily on its potential for commercial development, innovation and social benefit. However, high scientific quality is a prerequisite for publication on the 100 List.

Published: 28 June 2023Last Updated: 28 June 2023

International Affairs

IVA is a national academy with a global outlook. The Academy’s international activities are focused on a global outlook and developing influential international relations.

Published: 12 June 2023Last Updated: 12 June 2023

R2B Summit 2023

The full-day event R2B Summit 2023 took place at 7A Posthuset in Stockholm on 4 October. The R2B Summit is a unique meeting place with opportunities for researchers and the business community to find each other and exchange experiences and perspectives, with a view to creating innovations and business opportunities together. The programme is aimed at those who hold a leading position or are responsible for innovation, research and development at a company or an organisation. And at researchers on IVA’s 100 List 2023.

Published: 29 June 2023Last Updated: 29 June 2023

Meeting the Rising Global Competition in Sweden: OECD's Science, Technology, and Innovation Outlook

How is global competition evolving, and what measures can Sweden adopt to address challenges in order to enhance competitiveness and growth? The seminar will feature a presentation of OECD's Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) Outlook 2023, showcasing a significantly heightened global emphasis on strengthening countries' research and innovation systems. The seminar will feature discussions with Minister of Education Mats Persson, Minister of Energy and Enterprise Ebba Busch (to be confirmed), OECD's Director for STI Jerry Sheehan, Professor Sara Mazur from KAW, as well as Sweden's appointed representatives from various countries' Innovation and Research Councils.

Research & Innovation
Events
Published: 14 August 2023Last Updated: 14 August 2023

IVA's Smart Industry

Through IVA’s Smart industry project the Academy wants to stimulate digital transformation in small and medium-sized enterprises by, for example, highlighting and sharing good examples. The project originates from Smart industry – a new industrialisation strategy for Sweden (Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications 2015) and mainly operates through the Smart Industry competition.

Digitalisation
Projects & programmes
Published: 29 June 2023Last Updated: 29 June 2023

IVA’s Entrepreneurship Academy

IVA's Entrepreneurship Academy works with exchange of experiences, knowledge acquisition and policy development to promote and strengthen entrepreneurship and stimulate more entrepreneurs in Sweden. In practice the project aims to increase knowledge about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial abilities and contribute to improving policy and regulations.

Entrepreneurship
Projects & programmes
Published: 29 June 2023Last Updated: 29 June 2023

IVA gets a boost with 40 new Fellows – here is the list

A further 40 prominent researchers and experts from the business and public sector were today elected as new Fellows of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). They all possess leading expertise in the fields of technology, economics and business.

Articles
Published: 07 December 2023Last Updated: 07 December 2023

Report: Challenges for meeting increased demand for metals and minerals

Observations about conditions and challenges, as well as measures required to ensure access to metals and minerals to cope with the transition to a fossil-free society. One conclusion is that the demand for metals and minerals will increase sharply, and that Sweden and the Swedish mining cluster play an important role in meeting the needs.

Energy & Resources
Reports
Published: 05 July 2024Last Updated: 05 July 2024

Reference Groups Roadmap for Metals and Minerals

The main question for IVA's project Roadmap for Metals and Minerals is how Sweden and Europe can sustainably secure the supply of metals and minerals.

Published: 06 September 2023Last Updated: 06 September 2023

IVA’s Gold Medal 2022: Peter Carlsson – the visionary who dared to invest

Peter Carlsson is the visionary who dared to invest in something that most people thought was impossible. Despite years of warnings and setbacks, he has managed the feat of building a giga factory for the manufacture of green batteries in the forest outside Skellefteå.

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Published: 22 September 2022Last Updated: 28 June 2023
HM The King presents Peter Carlsson with the Gold Medal

IVA’s Gold Medal 2022: Peter Löthberg – the online rebel who connected the world

Peter Löthberg is a technology entrepreneur who, back in the mid 1980s, set out on a mission ‘to network the planet’. As an unstoppable force, he played a key role in the early emergence of the internet for many years, not least in the process of making Sweden one of the first countries in the world to become widely connected.

Articles
Published: 22 September 2022Last Updated: 28 June 2023
HM The King presents Peter Löthberg with the Gold Medal

A Resource-Effective Food Sector in Sweden

Global food production today accounts for a significant percentage of human impact on the environment, the climate and the planet’s natural resources. The Food subproject, which is part of IVA’s project Resource Effectiveness and the Circular Economy, therefore wants to help find ways to reduce the amount of food that is lost or goes to waste.

Energy & Resources
Reports
Published: 24 March 2020Last Updated: 16 August 2023

Minskar förpackningars klimatavtryck

Med rätt förpackning kan företag spara både pengar och minska sina koldioxidutsläpp. Forskare vid Lunds universitet har utvecklat ett webbaserat verktyg för att optimera förpackningar och minska deras klimatavtryck. IVAs 100-lista och inkubatorprogrammet REACH har gett skjuts på vägen.

Research & Innovation
Articles
Published: 24 October 2024Last Updated: 24 October 2024
kasserade förpackningar av olika utseende

2024 års Hans Werthén-stipendiater

Sex unga forskare och studerande bosatta i Sverige tilldelas årets stipendier från Hans Werthénfonden, för studier och forskning utomlands. Stipendierna delas ut i syfte att ge unga akademiker möjlighet att utvecklas i andra länder och återvända med nya kunskaper och erfarenheter som kan komma till nytta i Sverige.

Articles
Published: 18 June 2024Last Updated: 18 June 2024
gruppbild stipendiater

Sverige tränar cyberförsvar med världens bästa

Nyligen deltog Sverige genom Försvarsmaktens försorg i världens största övning i cyberförsvar Locked Shields. Tillsammans med 4000 deltagare från ett 40-tal länder fick representanter från Försvarsmakten och flera svenska myndigheter, organisationer och företag möjlighet att samarbeta för att vässa det svenska cyberförsvaret. Ledare för det svenska laget var cybersäkerhetsexperten och IVA-ledamoten Patrik Fältström.

Digitalisation
Spotlight articles
Published: 03 June 2024Last Updated: 03 June 2024

Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin 2024: Grundforskning med stor betydelse för diagnostik av sällsynta ärftliga sjukdomar

IVA-ledamot Anna Wedell, professor vid Karolinska Institutet och ledamot i Nobelkommittén som utser pristagarna kommenterar upptäckten bakom årets Nobelpris.

Research & Innovation
Articles
Published: 08 October 2024Last Updated: 08 October 2024

Vilket är Sveriges smartaste industriföretag? Nominera!

Vilket litet eller medelstort företag utmärker sig genom att ta vara på digitaliseringens möjligheter på ett särskilt innovativt och smart sätt? Dessutom med tydliga resultat och hållbarhet i fokus? Och kanske med hjälp av AI? Nominera ditt eget eller någon annans företag till företagstävlingen Smart industri 2024.

Digitalisation
Articles
Published: 11 March 2024Last Updated: 11 March 2024

IVAs 100-lista har unik plats i innovationssystemet

Som ny medlem i Research2Business styrgrupp hoppas Linköpingsprofessorn Fredrik Gustafsson kunna bidra till IVAs arbete med att nyttiggöra forskning. Han har själv lång erfarenhet som både forskare och entreprenör och menar att IVAs 100-lista har en unik plats i innovationssystemet.

Entrepreneurship
Research & Innovation
Articles
Published: 20 June 2024Last Updated: 26 June 2024

Debatt: Halvledare styr framtiden – och staten måste gå före

Pandemin visade hur beroende vi är av små, men avgörande komponenter – halvledare. Sverige måste vara med i EU:s storsatsning på om­rådet, och har alla förutsättningar att skaffa sig en framträdande roll. Men det krävs både politiskt mod och ekonomiska resurser från rege­ringen, ­skriver åtta ledamöter av IVA på DN Debatt.

Research & Innovation
Articles
Published: 07 May 2024Last Updated: 07 May 2024
Datachip

Fyra finalister i företagstävlingen Smart industri

Juryn för företagstävlingen Smart industri utser Embedl AB, Frontpac AB, Inify AB och IPercept AB till 2024 års finalister. Tävlingen uppmärksammar företag som tar vara på digitaliseringens möjligheter på ett smart och innovativt sätt med tydliga resultat.

Digitalisation
Articles
Published: 30 August 2024Last Updated: 30 August 2024
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