RESEARCHINNOVATIONGROWTH

outline

• VINNVA in short• IT and SME

– Research & Grow– Business Navigator– Living Labs– Every Day IT

Facts about VINNOVAThe Swedish Governmental Agency For Innovation Systems

• Established in 2001 • Budget 2009: 230 M$

– 6 % of Gov. R&D investments

– Doubled by matching funding from actors • Staff: 200+

• Mission: “Promote sustainable economic growth by financing needs-driven R&D and developing innovation systems”

Research&Grow

• Annual budget of 12M EUR• A programme that will strengthen and

stimulate R&D in SMEs

Business NavigatorPrimary participants:

Swedbank and Åtvidabergs Sparbank with SME customers, Linköping University, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Stockholm University.

Secondary participants:Teracom, Volvo Construction Equipment, Business networks in the Gnosjö region, Tetra Pak.

Project aim

To investigate prerequisites for how ICT-based decision support methods and tools could be used for more efficient business development.

Results so far

• A prototype• Extended R&D area

and collaboration.• Interest from SME

and large stakeholders in Banking sector

Living Labs – concept and criteria

• The user in focus• A structured way of

working• Models for

– User involvement– In real life.

• Business and collaboration models

• Organisational structure• Triple helix• The complete value

chain • Regionally based• Strategic idea

• Technical infrastructure

Users andUser needs

EnablingTechnologies

Academy

results

Public sectorBusiness

EconomicalAnd Legal Infra-

structuresIn a real lifeenvironment

StrategicIdea

Way ofworking

Examples of creative work from Malmö New Media Living Labs

K3, Malmö University

SVT (Swedish public service television

INKONST (Culture house in Malmö)

Ericsson Consumer LAB

Scandvision Communication AB

TAT AB

Good World ABInformator AB

Media Mötesplats Malmö

Do-FiQbrick

Malmö IncubatorMalmö New Media

Living Lab

The Blog: Multi Live Broadcasting from Malmö Festival

Collaboration between TAT, INKONST and K3 (Malmö

University)

Live mobile video reporting from 7 selected, well-known

users.- Art director

- Rapper- Cultural journalist

- Actress

Malmö New MediaLiving Lab

Performative experiments in context

Collaboration between Swedish Television, Good World, INKONST and K3

Malmö University

Very pleased partners People really enthusiastic

In a disturbing and competitive environment

Malmö New MediaLiving Lab

VINNOVA funded Living Labs and The Swedish Network (OLLSE)

Botnia LL

Innovation cultures

AirportLL

Stockholm LL

Safe@Home LL

Öresund LL

New Media LL

2½ million EUR

LL on Vehicle and Transport ICT

Joint Nordic Baltic Programme on Living Labs

Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA)

Danish Council for StrategicResearch (DASTI)

Finnish Innovation Fund (SITRA)

The Icelandic Centre for Research(RANNIS)

Investment and Development Agencyof Latvia (LIAA)

Information Society Development Committee, Lithuania (ISDC)

The Research Council of Norway

www.lilan.org

Every day IT6 M EUR

Crowd Sourcing a play

Open PlayPlan SjuCentre for Distant Spanning TechnolgiesTheatre of Norrbotten + The Swedish Study association

Thank you

alexander.nilsson@VINNOVA.seThe Swedish Governmental Agency For Innovation Systems