Presentation

Vinnova is Sweden's innovation agency. We are a government agency under the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, and the national contact authority for the EU framework program for research and innovation. We’re also the Swedish Government's expert authority in innovation policy. Vinnova employs just over 200 people. Our head office is in Stockholm with affiliates in Brussels, Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv.

We gather companies, researchers, the public sector, and civil society towards a common goal to take our society in a new direction.

We encourage organizations in different sectors to cooperate, changing existing laws and policies to pave the way for innovation that makes a difference. We give many people the opportunity to experiment and test new ideas before they become profitable.

We focus on ten areas that are important for Sweden and our opportunities to change to a sustainable society.

Together with organizations from different parts of society, we identify important needs and set up common objectives. With that as a starting point, we fund research and innovation that can make a difference for the world.

In tackling complex challenges like social welfare, climate change and public health we must think and do things differently. At Vinnova, we believe this means focusing on ten areas that are vital in creating a sustainable society.

In our ten chosen areas we stimulate innovation in the broadest sense:

• We mobilize actors from different parts of society towards a common objective

• We identify what needs to be done

• We fund research and innovation (grants)



Our ten areas:

Sustainable Industry
Sustainable Mobility
Sustainable Food systems
Sustainable Precision Health
Sustainable Built Environment
Digital Transformation
Ecosystems for innovative companies
Skills supply
Public sector and civil society
Emerging innovations