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Worth rememberingIVA’s Annual Report 2011
The Academy’s mission is to promote the engineering and economic sciences and the development of industry for the benefit of society
Preface 4
Academy Staff 6
Four experts on the grand challenges 8
Goals for IVA’s activities 11
Rune Andersson, portrait 12
Projects at IVA 14
Innovation for Growth 16
Transport 2030 20
Internet of Things 20
Agenda for Research 21
Science and Technology for All (NTA) 22
An Energy Efficient Society. 22
Energy Book 22
Mentor4Research 23
Hans Rosling, portrait 24
IVA Across 27
IVA’s Royal Technology Tours 28
IVA-aktuellt 28
Lena Treschow Torell, retiring Chairman 29
IVA’s input for the research and innovation bill 30
Jan Björklund, column 31
Meetings at IVA 32
Division activities 34
Summer party 35
A selection of seminars arranged in 2011 36
Political week in Visby 38
Elisabeth Nilsson, portrait 42
Industrial Research Committee 44
IVA’s Business Executives Council 46
Breakfast meetings & Annual meeting 48
Björn Savén, portrait 50
Annual Meeting 52
Great Gold Medal 58
Gold Medals 59
Awards, Scholarships & Distinctions 61
IVA’s Conference Centre 62
IVA Documentation 2011 64
Contents.
4 | preface
There is a disconnect between our
actions and what we have learned
from research about what the
limits are, even if the research is
constantly giving us new models. According to
the scientists, the number of challenges we face
is unparalleled: the climate, food, water, provi-
sions, oil and phosphorous – the list goes on.
In the area of health too, there are numerous
challenges, not least the West’s greatly ageing
population as a result of which fewer will need
to feed more.
How should we solve these challenges? I’m
a technology optimist and maintain, with the
obstinacy of a fool, that new technology is an
important cornerstone – perhaps the most im-
portant one – in our search for future solutions
to global challenges. New technology will be
developed where the need for it arises. Some-
times international agreements are needed
to limit the use of resources. But new needs
unleash the important innovative capacity in
an effective market. Raw material shortages
and outdated technology both spawn new and
exciting ideas for which a demand is quickly
created in the market.
What do these global challenges mean for
IVA? Can we help make a difference in our day-
to-day work, and if so, how?
Firstly, we know that working to find long-
term solutions to global problems is important
and needs to be prioritised. Here, IVA can
highlight new areas. Secondly, IVA’s network is
helping to bring together the political, business
and academic communities so that Sweden
can have the best possible breeding ground for
new, innovative solutions that can reach new
markets and lead to sustainable development.
Thirdly, IVA wants to improve conditions for
people in developing countries, and the compe-
tence within the Academy in water and energy
etc. are playing an important role here.
Science and technology have solved most
of mankind’s problems over the years. Per
Anders Fogelström’s series of novels set in
Stockholm begin with the extreme poverty in
the 1700s when 50,000 Stockholmers had to
live in a small area without access to essential
solutions. Today 34 million people live in the
Greater Tokyo area which, despite its size, runs
efficiently in terms of transportation, logistics
and water and waste infrastructure. We can
often solve the problems we prioritise in soci-
ety, and technology is a cornerstone in finding
those solutions. Rather, it is our frequent in-
ability to understand the challenges that delays
the process.
2011 has been a very productive year at IVA.
Much of the focus has been on the Innovation
for Growth project. In October the Innovation
Plan Sweden report was presented as input for
a Swedish innovation strategy.
Innovation Plan Sweden summarises the
concrete proposals developed by the project to
support innovation development in Sweden.
The project has been well covered in the media
and I am happy to say that the political system
has recognised our efforts and has already
started implementing several of our proposals.
Another long-term project we are continu-
ing to work on is Science and Technology for
All (NTA). This education development pro-
gramme focusing on science, technology and
mathematics also has a long-term and clear
connection to innovation. Another project that
has attracted a lot of attention is Transport
2030, a collaborative project involving differ-
ent areas of the transport sector. The results
from the project were presented at a well-
attended seminar during the political week
in Visby, Gotland. Agenda for Research is a
project we have been working on that aims to
increase the focus on and energize the research
policy discourse in Sweden. Our efforts will
become even more visible in the year ahead.
IVA is making valuable contributions inter-
nationally as well. The EU is a big opportunity
for Sweden, and Brussels is an increasingly
important platform for IVA. To this end, IVA is
part of Euro-CASE with twenty-one other en-
gineering sciences academies in Europe. Right
now Euro-CASE is working with innovation is-
sues and IVA is coordinating these efforts with
our sister academy in Germany, Acatech.
Innovation has almost become a mantra – a
solution for everything. Is this an exaggerated
notion, do you think? I say emphatically no. Let
us unleash our innovative power so that we can
help solve the grand challenges. Innovation is
essential if we are to solve the problems of the
future. Research and legislation lead to renewal.
I hope you enjoy reading our annual report!
Björn O. Nilsson. Innovation is needed to meet the challenges of the futurefrom time to time mankind faces grand challenges that require new and powerful solutions. One such challenge is how to handle the prediction that the population around the year 2050 will pass the nine-billion mark. Based on our current consumption of resources, we will need another globe, because we’re putting too much strain on the one we have. That is not sustainable.
preface | 5
6 | AcAdemy StAff
Ann Clauson, Conference Reservations
Markus Strömberg, Conference Service
Elin Vinger, Project Manager
Lotta Thörn, CFO
Kirsti Häcki, Project Assistant
Björn O. Nilsson, President
Malin Kratz, Conference Reservations Sheryhan Benzon,
Conference Service
Joakim Rådström, Head of Media Relations
Camilla Koebe, Communications Director
Johan Carlstedt, Project Manager
Östen Frånberg, Project Manager
Lennart Ohlsson, JanitorPär Rönnberg, Editor in Chief and legally responsible for publications
Jacob Bjarnason, Service Manager IT
Lars Fog, Property Manager
Ingrid Jansson, Division Coordinator
Marika Thunberg Petersson, Office Coordinator
Jan Westberg, Communications Officer
AcAdemy StAff | 7
Arvid Söderhäll,
Project Manager
Caroline Ankarcrona, Project Manager
Johan Persson, Project Manager
Jan Nordling,
Project Manager
Lena Anderson, Accountant
Staffan Eriksson, Project Manager
Marie Owe, Assistant to the President
Åsa Sjöberg, Conference Manager
Magnus Breidne, Project DirectorAnn-Margret Back, Assistant
Kenneth Leverbeck, Editor/Writer
Pär Ödling, Secretary to the Academy
Hampus Lindh, Project Manager
Barbara Eriksson,
HR Manager
Anna Lindberg, Communications Officer
Britta Aulio, Conference Reservations
Anna-Karin Friskopps,
Conference Reservations
Robert Bwomono, AV technician
Ulla Svantesson, International Coordinator
Henrik Lagerträd, Communications Officer
Ann-Margret Malmgren, Assistant
8 | grand challenges
From your perspective, what are the
biggest challenges we face?
Well, it’s difficult to pick one or two, but it’s
clear that constant strong democracy that
prevents us from ending up with a far too
technocratic form of government (the current
development in Europe is a concern), fighting
corruption, populism and xenophobia, and
striving for a just society with as much equality
as possible are all crucial.
In the international arena, it’s very im-
portant for us in the West to live up to our
promises on respect for human rights and for
us to sort out our budget deficits if we want
democracy to be an attractive model for the
world. (Note the discussion on how attrac-
tive the Chinese model is in large parts of the
world, e.g. In Beijing Consensus by S. Halper).
Greater efforts are needed to reduce poverty,
particularly in Africa. On the environment
front, the climate issue is important; converting
our energy systems for renewable energy, but
also reducing deforestation and the destruction
of valuable ecosystems. The challenge is huge.
In half a century we need to cut emissions by
50 percent and in the wealthy part of the world,
by close to 90 percent. That is a technological,
financial and political challenge that is mind-
boggling. But whoever is quick to find solutions
will make enormous gains from the conversion.
Today, net sales of wind and solar cells are
already in the region of SEK 1,000 billion a year
in the global market.
What are the solutions?
To give a complete but brief answer regarding
the world’s challenges is, of course, impossible.
But this is as brief as I can manage: When it
comes to the climate issue, it’s basically about
raising fees on carbon emissions and supporting
the development of new technologies, such as
various forms of solar energy. The big question
is naturally how to get political acceptance for
this, especially in the US where the Congress is
the big bottleneck at the moment. In terms of
democracy: openness, education and justice are
crucial in order to prevent growing isolation,
which can be kidnapped by populist and xeno-
phobic forces.
How can Sweden contribute to the solu-
tions?
Sweden is a small country and our main con-
tribution could be acting as a model country,
i.e. by demonstrating how a sound economy
and reduced carbon emissions are possible, by
pursuing policies that oppose xenophobia, and
by standing up for human rights.
Can we manage that?
History has been a long, eternal struggle between
opposing interests. That’s going to continue...
From your perspective, what are the
biggest challenges we face?
The biggest challenges in my opinion are
increasing global, sustainable economic growth.
Without growth it will be much more difficult
to solve our environmental problems, and to
raise standards for those sections of the world’s
population that have up to now been unable to
share in the increased prosperity of the last few
decades, particularly the 15 percent or so who
live in extreme poverty.
What are the solutions?
We talk today about the crisis of capitalism. But
the solution will not be found in more govern-
ment or international regulation and interven-
tion. Instead we need to improve conditions so
that the market economy can work. This will
involve deregulation and reregulation of certain
markets (e.g. parts of the infrastructure, transport
and finance markets), increased competition in
several areas and more opportunities for many
more people than today to participate in econom-
ic growth. In the case of the latter, the important
thing is to invest in education and competence
improvement, and to combine this with economic-
political systems that enable individuals to get a
job or get involved in building a business for the
benefit of both the individual and society.
How is Sweden helping to solve the grand challenges? Four experts’ prophecies of global challenges and possible solutions
Christian Azar. Professor of Sustainable Industrial Metabolism, Chalmers University of Technology
Pontus Braunerhjelm. Managing Director, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum, Professor KTH, Stockholm
grand challenges | 9
Gustav Fridolin.
Pontus Braunerhjelm.
Christian Azar.Eric Giertz.
10 | grand challenges
How can Sweden contribute to the solu-
tions?
Sweden can contribute by working on making
changes according to these guidelines in the
international forums in which Sweden par-
ticipates, within the EU, and by being a model
country ourselves.
Can we manage that?
I’m a development optimist; despite all the
threats about the planet running out of re-
sources and destroying itself, I’m convinced that
our innovative capacity will solve our problems.
But this requires innovation, entrepreneurship
and growth to be prioritised in the international
frameworks that are now emerging.
From your perspective, what are the
biggest challenges we face?
The conditions upon which we have built our
economy – almost unlimited access to raw ma-
terials and energy – are fundamentally chang-
ing. The shortage of resources and the climate
challenge are driving this change. In future,
green technology will be part of the market; all
solutions and all technology must be green.
What are the solutions?
We need new ways of transporting ourselves
and our goods, more sensible ways of build-
ing cities, and more effective ways of using
and producing energy. Many of the solutions
already exist. What we need now is policies for
using them across a broad front.
How can Sweden contribute to the solu-
tions?
We have the ability to be at the forefront. This
will also allow new jobs to be created and new
industries to emerge in Sweden.
Can we manage that?
It depends on which policies we choose. In my
book “Maskiner och Människor” (Machines
and People), I’ve drafted a new industrial policy
with three clear goals:
1. Sweden should be the country in the
industrialised world with the highest per capita
investment in new, sustainable technology.
2. By having regulations with a long-term
perspective, Sweden will double private invest-
ment in new, sustainable technology.
3. The education system needs to produce an
educated workforce that can do the work that’s
needed when new industries emerge.
From your perspective, what are the
biggest challenges we face?
The biggest challenges include the challenging
environmental issues, such as access to water,
energy conversion and the climate issue, and
handling increasing urbanisation, getting to
grips with poverty, widespread diseases and
challenges relating to ageing populations in
developing countries.
What are the solutions?
For IVA, which is an academy of engineering
sciences, it’s important to focus on the possible
technological solutions to the major challenges.
This means a focus on technology, sciences and
medical research. But research is not a solution
unless new discoveries are converted into in-
novation and new products and services. That’s
why it’s important to emphasise what’s needed
politically and financially so that the new tech-
nological opportunities can come to practical
use in different types of companies – both new
and established ones, big and small, producing
goods and producing services. Development
often involves collaboration between many dif-
ferent companies that form natural clusters of
various kinds. Here, I think it’s more important
to focus on general measures to create a favour-
able innovation and business climate, as well as
an effective interplay between publically funded
companies and private interests, than to focus
on specifically targeted measures.
How can Sweden contribute to the solu-
tions?
If Sweden is really going to contribute to
development, we need policies that are adapted
to more specialised and internationalised trade
and industry. This means that Sweden needs to
attract both Swedish and foreign-owned busi-
nesses to establish R&D intensive enterprises
and companies with high value added per
employee in Sweden. It’s important to have the
appropriate competence and the right busi-
ness climate in Sweden, but also to be early
technology users, which is an important diver in
this context. Early technology use is extremely
important for the sustained competitiveness of
Swedish industry and for Sweden’s ability to
help solve the big challenges.
Some people probably look back nostalgi-
cally at the decades in the mid-1900s when
state-run enterprises worked closely with big
Swedish corporations in development partner-
ships, like Televerket and LM Ericsson or
Vattenfall and ASEA. The prevailing conditions
during those decades no longer exist today. It is
neither possible nor desirable to build the same
systematic national collaborations between
Swedish universities, government monopolies
and individual Swedish corporations. Still, it is
extremely important to take advantage of op-
portunities to improve important public sector
enterprises; to make them more efficient, and
to create the best possible breeding ground for
innovative (Swedish and foreign) companies
in our country. This is largely the case in, for
example, the ICT sector in Sweden, but hardly
in, for example, the medical technology sector,
which develops equipment and systems for
care.
Can we manage that?
As I see it, it’s a very big challenge for IVA to
adapt itself to the structural changes taking
place in industry. This transformation is result-
ing in more specialised global companies. If
IVA is to help increase innovation capacity and
promote growth in Swedish industry, the Acad-
emy’s focus needs to stretch beyond Swedish-
owned companies. That is a real challenge!
Eric Giertz. Visiting professor of Industrial Economics and Management (INDEK), KTH
Gustav Fridolin. Spokesperson, The Green Party
By global challenges – or as they are often called “the grand societal challenges” – we mean challenges associated with things like the climate, energy, the environment anddemographics; but they also include security, participation, good health and education for all people.
IVA believes there is much work to be done to make changes in society with a focus on these challenges, and the Academy has the ability to make valuable contributions to these important efforts.
sTraTegy wOrk | 11
A positive attitude to economics, en-gineering and science, and in particu-lar a greater interest among young people in higher education in maths, natural sciences, IT and engineering.
Improve Sweden’s ability to influence at the European level.
Help meet the “Grand Socie-tal Challenges.”
More government research investment for growth and competitiveness.
Effective and efficient infrastruc-ture, trans-port systems and built environment.
Sweden as a world leader in energy technology, cleantech, biotech and IT.
Alleviate the problem of an inadequate supply of education, water, energy and food in developing countries.
Internationally com-petitive education programmes.
Guaranteed access to energy at competitive prices through the development of new, sus-tainable energy technology, while attaining the goals of more efficient energy consumption and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
Improved climate for entrepreneurs and innovation.
Increased growth and inter-national competitiveness for knowledge-intensive companies.
Strategy work. Goals for IVA’s activities
12 | pOrTraiT
Rune Andersson’s past in-
cludes being president, CEO
and chairman of a number
of big corporations,
including Trelleborg AB, Electrolux and
Getinge. Today his role as Chairman of
the Mellby Gård Group takes up most
of his time. At IVA his next assignment
will be as chairman of the follow-up
to the Innovation for Growth project,
Innovation Powerhouse Sweden.
The export issue has always played
a central role in the companies he has
been involved with, but the develop-
ment of the Swedish market in differ-
ent areas has also held his attention.
“Our biggest challenge in Sweden is
to boost employment and this means
promoting growth primarily in the
service sector because it accounts for
80–85 percent of jobs compared to the
production industry which accounts for
15–20 percent,” says Rune Andersson.
According to Rune, the current
tax code is not always helpful to the
service sector. His knowledge of the
tax system is very current because he
was chairman of the panel within IVA’s
Innovation for Growth project that
analysed the Swedish tax system to
see how it is affecting the innovation
climate and growth in Sweden.
Payroll costs in the manufacturing
phase constitute one of the most impor-
tant parameters company’s need to take
into account when deciding where to
locate production facilities, particularly
if much of it is manual production.
“If payroll costs are less than 10
percent, it’s still feasible to keep pro-
duction in Sweden, but if payroll costs
rise to more than 20 percent, it’s diffi-
cult to motivate domestic production,”
he says, pointing out that it is hard
for Sweden to compete with Asia in
manual manufacturing. Sweden does,
however, compare favourably to other
European countries and even the US.
Rune Andersson believes that if
production involves limited manual
labour, there is no reason for it not
to take place in Sweden. The biggest
company in the Mellby Gård Group,
the SEK billion Roxtec in Karlskrona,
which develops, manufactures and
sells sealing solutions for cables and
pipes to protect people and equip-
ment from things like water, fire, gas,
sand, dirt, vibration, electromagnetic
disturbance and pests, manufactures
its products in Sweden. 97 percent of
the products are exported.
“The challenges in the export mar-
ket are not appreciably greater today
than in the past. It’s possible that the
manufacturing country is chosen with
even greater care bearing in mind pay-
roll costs,” says Rune Andersson.
Rune Anderson believes that IVA’s
role in helping to find solutions to
global challenges involves being a clear
opinion builder. It is about getting
important issues on the agenda; not
least of which is increasing interest in
an education in science and technology
subjects. Rune has a Masters degree
in civil engineering from Chalmers
University of Technology.
Despite the criticism of educa-
tion today – which Rune believes has
clear shortcomings – he believes that
Sweden has a reasonably good supply
of qualified people in the workforce.
However, he points out that most of
them live in big cities, which makes it
more difficult for companies with head
offices outside the Stockholm, Gothen-
burg and Malmö regions to find quali-
fied employees. Efficient infrastructure
is therefore crucial because it has a
major impact on the recruitment of
well-educated people.
Rune Andersson has a positive
view of the future despite the great
challenges.
“Sweden is doing well. I don’t think
that competition in the export market
is any tougher today than in the past.
But that being said, we clearly need to
address the problems that exist in edu-
cation and infrastructure, and focus
more on the service sector.”
Rune Andersson. Efficient domestic market is good for Sweden and promotes exportseducation, efficient infrastructure and more investment in the service sector are three important parameters to enable sweden to hold its own in international competition and boost employment. according to industrialist and iVa member rune andersson, payroll costs are a crucial aspect in determining where a company’s main manual production will take place.
name: Rune Andersson
home: In the Skåne countryside
family: Wife and three children
education: mSc civil engineering, chalmers University of technology
career: Various ceO and chair-manship assignments for big corporations. Has now been running his own busi-ness for 25 years
issue close to his heart at iva: Innovation issues, particularly relating to Smes
pOrTraiT | 13
14 | prOjecTs
Projects at IVA. An arena for discourse on developments in societyThe objective of iVa’s project activities is to create greater understanding about the significance of engineering and economics. The projects involve numerous decision-makers and experts from industry, the research community, government authorities and agencies, and politicians. The process whereby decision-makers and experts from different spheres come together is often just as important as the actual end results. Most of the projects focus on long-range issues relating to research and education, energy and the environment, innovation and enterprise, and communication and infrastructure. internationalisation and connections to the eU are important aspects in all projects.
PROjectS | 15
16 | innOVaTiOn fOr grOwTh
The key to Sweden’s future pros-
perity is renewal or innovation.
The intention of Innovation for
Growth has been to use concrete
proposals and a broad-based dialogue to
increase Sweden’s innovative power.
Many nations today are rallying to address
the issue of innovation. Innovation is an
important part of the solution to the major
societal challenges the world faces today; not
least in a situation plagued by an economic
crisis and a lack of confidence in the political
direction in Europe and the US. By developing
innovation strategies, nations want to strength-
en their comparative advantages to meet these
challenges, while at the same time creating the
right general conditions for growth in industry
and the rest of society.
The Swedish Government’s innovation
policy initiatives have been modest in recent
decades. But its innovation strategy, which
will be presented in 2012, offers hope. Sweden
needs a long-term and bipartisan policy that is
widely accepted.
We believe that the political leadership’s
mission is to present a vision and a strategy for
innovation that involves growth, a high em-
ployment rate and an inclusive society. Innova-
tion for Growth is contributing to this effort
by making concrete proposals and through a
nationwide, combined effort for innovation.
The Globalisation Council’s work, for
which a final report was presented in May
2009, has been an important starting point for
the project work. In a process at the national
and regional levels, a series of concrete propos-
als have been developed as a first step towards
a better innovation climate. This has involved
individuals from many parts of society, not
least from the business community.
Innovation Plan Sweden summarises the
work processes and proposals that the project
has developed to support innovation develop-
ment in Sweden. We greatly appreciate the fact
that the political system and public authori-
ties have paid attention to our work and have
started to implement several of our proposals.
The process has been characterised by
dialogue and various activities. Fifteen regions/
counties have been engaged in the Regional
Dialogue. Within the National Dialogue
we have held meetings with MPs and youth
politicians, politicians and civil servants in the
Government Offices, young innovators and
representatives from industry and the business
community. Eight work groups have developed
concrete proposals to strengthen innovation in
selected areas. Idea and analysis groups have
added their input to the process. Proposals
and analysis have been reviewed by the Science
Council. An Elected Council with representa-
tives from 35 organisations and agencies pro-
vided valuable input on a regular basis during
the Innovation for Growth project.
Many people have contributed to Innova-
tion for Growth. We would like to express
our deep gratitude for the strong commitment
we have encountered. We are convinced that
together we can help to increase Sweden’s in-
novative power. The work has only just begun!
Marcus Wallenberg, chairman, innovation
for growth, seB, Kristina Alsér, kronoberg
county, Lars Backsell, recipharm, Pontus
Braunerhjelm, swedish entrepreneurship forum,
Charlotte Brogren, VinnOVa, Anders
Ekblom, astraZeneca, Johan Hernmarck,
provider Ventures, Annika Lundius, confederation
of swedish enterprise, Christina Lugnet, swedish
agency for economic and regional growth, Stefan
Löfven, if Metall, Björn O. Nilsson, iVa, Göran
Sandberg, knut and alice wallenberg foundation
(kaw), Melker Schörling, Melker schörling aB
and Johan Carlstedt, innovation for growth.
Innovation for Growth. From words to deeds
innOVaTiOn fOr grOwTh | 17
What were the foremost reasons for
launching this project?
“The innovation system is extremely fragmented.
We saw an opportunity to rally and gather re-
sources, and to build a lasting strategy that would
have a bigger impact than earlier initiatives. In
Sweden our problem is that not enough new
businesses are starting up, and the ones that exist
aren’t growing enough. Also, we are not good
enough at commercialising ideas from research.”
What challenges do we face in develop-
ing Sweden’s innovative capacity?
“We need to rally around the issue at both the
regional and national levels in order to succeed.
It’s important to create a sense of urgency – get
the ear of politicians and the Government, and
get them to be bold enough to address certain
issues and then feel confident making deci-
sions. It’s a lot about attitudes, knowledge and
leadership.”
The regional dialogue has been one of
the main themes throughout the project.
What experiences have you gained?
“There has been a lot of rallying here. The
regions and counties have evaluated and ana-
lysed their innovation policies and innovation
systems, including collaboration between dif-
ferent organisations, and what effects financial
subsidies actually have. Based on this analysis,
several regions have developed regional innova-
tion strategies and created strong leadership for
those strategies. Innovative power really exists,
and it is gratifying that 15 regions and counties
have been involved in the project and more are
starting to analyse their situations.”
Is it possible that Innovation Plan
Sweden is just a carefully crafted paper
tiger?
“The fact is that the political system and
government agencies have already started
implementing several of our proposals. Many
proposals require enduring processes and are
controversial in parts, so they are not imple-
mented in the blink of an eye. One example is
the requirement for cooperation across party
lines and ministries.”
What is needed for Sweden’s innovation
initiative to succeed?
“What’s needed is a clear and enduring process
for implementing a national innovation strat-
egy; clear political leadership and goal-setting.
Regular evaluation and transparency are two
other important criteria. In other words, the
Government needs to prove it’s up to the task!
Most countries are facing similar challenges
and finding recipes for solutions. Sweden needs
a new mindset in order to be attractive.”
How can IVA help in these efforts?
“We can help with implementation of in-
novation initiatives regionally, nationally and
internationally. We are going to continue to
support the Government, regional politicians
and national and regional industry. And we will
do this through the follow-up project, Innova-
tion Powerhouse Sweden.”
Project Director Johan Carlstedt. What do you think about Innovation for Growth?
More information. Please visit www.iva.se/innovation
18 | innOVaTiOn fOr grOwTh
The Innovation Powerhouse
Sweden project is a natural
continuation of Innovation
for Growth. The project aims
to contribute to a long-term Swedish
national innovation policy, to encourage
work on regional innovation strategies
and to monitor international innovation
policies. The project is expected to run
from 2011 to 2013.
At the concluding conference
of the Innovation for Growth
project on 10 October the pro-
ject’s Chairman MArCuS WAL-
LENBErG handed the final report entitled
Innovation Plan Sweden over to Minister for
Enterprise ANNiE Lööf. The seminar was her
first appearance as Minister for Enterprise.
The concluding conference took place in a
packed Wallenberg Auditorium and other
speakers included iLJA BAtALJAN, ANGELES
BErMudEz-SvANKviSt, LiSA LiNdStröM,
PONtuS BrAuNErHJELM and ÅKE SvENSSON.
Innovation Plan Sweden is IVA’s input
for the Swedish innovation strategy being
prepared by the Government and to be
presented in 2012. In a process at both the
national and regional levels, the project has
produced a number of concrete proposals to
help improve the innovation climate.
New project. Innovation Powerhouse
Innovation for Growth. Innovation Plan Sweden handed over to Minister for Enterprise
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Sweden’s innovative capacity is the sum of that capacity in
all of the regions. Alongside the regional dialogue, the task
of drawing the national innovation map has started. Many
parts of Sweden have come a long way, but the dialogue
has also highlighted the fact that some regions are stronger than
others. Skåne and Västra Götaland stand out as positive examples.
Through seminars and workshops, the active regions have
shared their experiences, inspired and been inspired. How in-
novative Sweden will be in the future depends on the innovation
climate around the country, and many of the representatives for
the participating regions stressed the importance of continuing a
regional dialogue to keep the process that has started alive.
KriStiNA ALSér has been the county governor in kronoberg county
since 2007. she was a member of the steering committee for Innovation
for Growth and headed the project’s regional dialogue initiative. kristina
was previously ceO of the greentech company Mercatus engineering.
In Sweden we are good at patents but
weak at commercialisation. We need
to take this seriously and work actively
to find structures that reward com-
mercialisation so we can continue to be the
nation that is known for strong brands in
industry and the service sector.
Sweden, as a small country facing many
challenges, including our demography,
needs to be at the forefront and have an effi-
cient and innovative public sector. The work
group I headed prepared various proposals
for more efficient public administration and
our proposals have resulted in a committee
being appointed by the Government to pro-
duce clear and implementable proposals to
make public administration more efficient.
CHriStiNA LuGNEt has been director general
of the swedish agency for economic and regional
growth (Tillväxtverket) since 2009. she was
a member of the steering committee for the
Innovation for Growth project and served as chair-
man of the efficient government administration
work group. christina previously held the post as
municipal director in haparanda.
Kristina Alsér. The national innovation map shows big differences between the regions
Christina Lugnet. Strong Swedish brands give the country a boost
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The purpose of the Transport 2030
project is to establish a foundation
for continued cooperation between
the industry, academia and public
agencies in Sweden to create better conditions
for the sustainable development of the trans-
port system over the next twenty years.
The Transport 2030 project began two years
ago with the objective of developing the Swedish
and European transport system in a way that
contributes to the long-term positive develop-
ment of society, improved competitiveness in
industry and reduced environmental impact
from transportation, while increasing mobility
and accessibility for more people. This can be
achieved through broad collaboration between
the various players in the transport system with
a focus on long-term development issues relat-
ing to the entire transport system.
At the Nordic region’s most important
annual conference for the transport sector,
Transport Forum in Linköping in January
2011, Steering Committee Chairman, Ulrika
Francke, presented the results from the work
that has been carried since the start. A month
later the project’s concluding report, Trans-
port system for sustainable development and
competitiveness, was presented in IVA’s Wal-
lenberg Auditorium. The report emphasises the
value of large-scale demonstration projects as a
method of driving the necessary joint develop-
ment processes.
The project’s most important proposal is the
creation of a forum for strategic development
of the transport sector to drive development
towards sustainable mobility in the long term.
The forum will provide unique opportunities
to find transport solutions which, on a global
scale, can lead to a significant reduction in the
environmental threat, improvements to the lives
of individuals and more competitive industry.
Transport 2030 arranged one of IVA’s semi-
nars during the political week in Visby, Gotland,
with the participation of Charlotte Brogren, Di-
rector General of VINNOVA, Urban Karlström,
Pia Kinhult, deputy governor for the Skåne
region, Mikael Stöhr, CEO of Green Cargo,
Jan-Eric Sundgren Director AB Volvo and
Gunnar Malm, Director General of the Swedish
Transportation Administration. This was also
the venue for the forum’s formal launch.
“The seminar in Visby rounded off two
years of work within Transport 2030 and was
the formal starting shot for the new national
forum proposed by the project. The forum will
not be organised by IVA, but still has an IVA
connection because the forum’s chairman is
Urban Karlström, an IVA member,” says pro-
ject and communications manager,” Hampus
Lindh.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is
advancing in leaps and bounds.
Connections to wireless net-
works are increasing in number.
In the forest and mining industries the new
technology is attractive in areas such as
recycling, maintenance, logistics and safety.
These were some of the conclusions drawn
at a seminar entitled The Internet of Things
– from commercial benefits to sensors,
arranged by IVA in September.
The Internet of Things is the digitisation
of management and control of industrial
and social processes.
“Being at the forefront of IoT could lead
to improved competitiveness for Swedish
industry, which would raise the GDP and
create new jobs,” said Östen Frånberg,
Project Manager of IoT, a new sub-project
within IVA’s ICT for Sweden project.
IoT. From commercial benefits to sensors
Transport 2030. Transport issues resulted in national forum
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With the goal of highlighting and
energising the research policy
discourse in Sweden, IVA’s
Agenda for Research project
has now completed its second year. Two studies
have so far been reported; one on how to orga-
nise research with a practical orientation using
schools as an example, and one on the connec-
tion between education and research in higher
education. The studies were then presented and
discussed at well-attended seminars.
Starting in 2010, IVA has been running the
Agenda for Research project the goal of which
is to highlight and energise the research policy
discourse in Sweden. The project will run for
three years and is mainly in the form of studies
and dialogue. The dialogue involves elected
officials, research funders and researchers,
as well as those putting the research to use in
trade and industry, the public sector and vari-
ous organisations.
The project work is based on existing stud-
ies and aims to identify knowledge gaps. Based
on an inventory of needs identified among the
target groups, the project is initiating targeted
studies of the research and innovation system.
Through this process the project will generate
valuable input for the upcoming research and
innovation policy bill.
“We are in a good position to impact
research policy because the analysis is owned
and led by representatives from the big re-
search funders. This means that what we learn
during the project will go directly into the
research policy work,” says Anders Broström
who, alongside Elin Vinger, is a Project Man-
ager for Agenda for Research.
During the first year of the project, efforts
were focused on learning about the problems
and prioritising areas where the need for
fundamental analysis was the greatest. In 2011
the project launched a number of studies, the
first of which was presented in October on
how research on and for schools is organised.
In connection with this study, Agenda for
Research held a seminar entitled “Stronger
research for stronger schools.” The seminar
linked to the new Education Act and addressed
the need in the education system for a strong
research-based knowledge supply. The goal
was to initiate a discussion on how best to
organise the research that meets these needs.
“One of several prioritised issues within the
project is analysing the status of the research-
based knowledge supply in the important
sectors responsible for education, healthcare
and taking care of people,” says Arne Wittlöv,
Chairman of Agenda for Research.
In November the project’s study on “The
research connection in higher education” was
launched. The study revealed that only a third
of the instruction in Swedish higher education is
by educators with a connection to research. Two
thirds of students in higher education are taught
by educators with low or no research activity of
their own. When the results of the study were
presented, Agenda for Research was looking for
clearer definitions of what the “research con-
nection” actually means – and emphasised the
fact that it should be possible for the connection
between education and research to be different
for different university programmes.
In 2012 the project will present its propos-
als on how the research system should be
developed over the next decade to meet the
knowledge needs of the future.
CurrENt WOrKiNG GrOuPS
• Theresearchconnectioninhighereducation
• TheroleofPhDstudentsintheresearch
system
• Newwaysoforganisingresearchwitha
practical orientation
• Researchpolicyandtheglobalknowledge
economy
• Research-basedknowledgeinSwedish
administration
Agenda for Research. Research policy discourse on the agenda
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Energy supply, energy consumption
and energy dependence are crucial
issues for our prosperity. The com-
plexity of these issues and therefore
the need for assembled and especially objective
information are the reason for the Energy
Book’s existence. The first edition came out in
2007, and in 2011 a revision of the book began
and training days were held for teachers.
The Energy Book has now been around
for four years. The empty shelves after 19,000
copies have gone out and the numerous PDF
downloads are proof that the book is filling
an important function for decision-makers,
journalists and the general public, but most
importantly, for teachers and school children, in
both social science and natural science subjects.
The first revision was made in 2009 and in
2011 work on the second revision began – a
revision that will be more comprehensive than
the first. Apart from updating statistics, the
outdated examples and energy technologies
have been removed and replaced by new ones.
“We conducted thorough market research
before starting the revision work to get a more
accurate idea of which parts of the book are
actually being used. We’ve also received sug-
gestions for improvements,” says Elin Vinger,
Project Manager for the Energy Book.
Apart from the fact that at least 10,000 new
books will be printed, users will still be able to
download it as a PDF at IVA’s website or go to
the browsable website, energiboken.nu.
Alongside the revision work for the book, IVA
has worked with four of the country’s science
centres to develop and implement training days
for teachers. They were highly appreciated
and a follow-up is already being planned for
Stockholm in spring 2012. The plan is for a
training day to be held 6–8 times around the
country before the end of the year. The aim is
also for the training day to be offered by various
educational institutions around the country.
The purpose of the Energy Book is to pro-
vide a source of information and highlight the
great significance of energy issues in a way that
will encourage people to become more engaged,
while also explaining the challenges we face.
The ambition is for readers to gain a more nuan-
ced picture of the complexity of energy issues.
Energy Book. New information and education for teachers
NTA. New curriculum good for the project
New project. Energy efficiency in focus
IVA is continuing its long-standing com-
mitment to the school development
programme, Science and Technology for
All (NTA), in cooperation with the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA). The new
national school curriculum, which focuses
even more on science and technology subjects,
has increased demand for NTA in the munici-
palities and among independent schools.
NTA aims to inspire curiosity and increase
interest in science and technology among
schoolchildren and teachers in both preschools
and school years 1–9. NTA was initiated by IVA
and KVA and is based on an American concept.
“When we started our goal was to get a
hundred municipalities involved. The fact that
it has taken fourteen years to get there is due
to a number of factors, not least of which is
municipal finances. Today we are noticing a
greater demand from schools that need sup-
port to work with science and technology with
younger schoolchildren,” says Marja Anders-
son, head of NTA Production and Service.
In 2011 alone, six new municipalities and
seven other members, such as independent
schools, joined the programme. At NTA’s of-
fices they are noticing a difference after the
launch of the new Lgr 11 curriculum, which
emphasizes the importance of proficiency in
science and technology more than the previous
curriculum.
“Things have really picked up since Lgr
11 was released because NTA is well suited to
the new curriculum,” says Els-Britt Sellin, an
administrator at NTA Production and Service.
In 2011 IVA funded a process of documen-
ting the collaboration between schools and
workplaces within the NTA municipalities.
The purpose of this was to highlight good
examples and produce models to show other
municipalities how they can initiate similar
collaboration.
Also in 2011 NTA arranged a conference for
the municipalities’ development groups. The
idea behind the conferences is to discuss the
link between industry and schools, and to see
what synergies they can bring to each other.
“IVA is still very committed to NTA and is
working actively to upgrade and modernise
the NTA offering,” says Caroline Ankarcrona,
Project Manager at IVA.
In December IVA decided to launch a
project called An Energy Efficient
Society. The project will aim to reduce
the obstacles and increase incentives
for energy efficiency in the various sectors in
society. The technology is largely available
already – the obstacles are instead a combi-
nation of the lack of knowledge, a systematic
approach, and financial and administrative
resources.
The goal is to improve energy efficiency
by 50 percent by 2050 without this having a
negative impact on society. The project will
also work actively to identify new com-
mercial opportunities and business models
in the area of energy efficiency for Swedish
companies.
Chairman of the project is Professor Lars
Bergman, President, Stockholm School of
Economics.
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Ulrica Almhöjd, a cariology research-
er at the University of Gothenburg,
won this year’s Mentor4Research
scholarship of SEK 100,000. Men-
tor4Research puts promising researchers in con-
tact with the business community and supports
them in commercialising their research.
The Mentor4Research programme is run
and funded jointly by IVA and VINNOVA. This is
the programme’s sixth year providing talented
researchers with a better network of contacts in
the business world and helping them to recognise
the commercial potential of their own research.
The idea is that matchmaking between research-
ers and mentors will increase commercialisation
of Swedish research results. The researcher who
learns the most is rewarded with a research
scholarship of SEK 100,000. The business-
oriented mentors have many years of experience
in industry and are handpicked based on each
researcher’s individual situation and needs.
Ulrica Almhöjd was selected from among
60 participants from Stockholm, Uppsala,
Linköping and Gothenburg, the cities the re-
searchers could be active in to be eligible for the
programme. Eight of the 60 became finalists.
“There are applications and application areas
I had never even thought of,” said winner Ulrika
Almhöjd about her research. “I’ve now actively
started looking for new ones, and for commer-
cialisation opportunities for my research outside
the walls of the university as well.”
Ulrica Almhöjd mainly conducts research
on human dental care. However, when she was
accepted to the programme, she was paired with
a mentor who had worked with animal clinics,
Håkan Nyberg. Nyberg, who works with busi-
ness development around the country, quickly
pointed out that her best commercialisation
opportunity would probably be a product to
stop tooth loss in dogs and cats. Clinical studies
for this application have already started at Blå
Stjärnan in Gothenburg. It appears that her re-
search may also be important in improving the
dental hygiene of horses and fighting caries and
the so-called food impact. This may in turn lead
to additional forms of commercialisation.
“I think Ulrica was a strong candidate,” said
mentor Håkan Nyberg at the award ceremony.
“Her journey has been huge. She started with
a very vague idea about what she wanted to do
and now she has arrived at a finished product.”
tHE 2011 fiNALiStS:
Saad Haasan and Suparna Sanyal, Uppsala
University
Lisa Simonsson, Chalmers University of
Technology
Ulrica Almhöjd, University of Gothenburg
Eric Herlenius, Karolinska Institute
Johan Strömqvist, Royal Institute of Technology
Johan Åberg and Mikael Syväjärvi, Linköping
University
Mentor4Research. Winner preventing tooth loss in dogs
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When the US magazine
Foreign Policy listed
the 100 most impor-
tant thinkers whose
ideas shaped the world in 2009, Hans
Rosling, professor in public health sci-
ence, was in 96th place for “boggling
our minds with paradigm-shattering
statistics.” By showing time as motion,
he visualises statistics in a way that is
very easy to understand. The visualisa-
tion software he uses was developed
by Gapminder, a popular educational
organisation, for which Hans Rosling
works the majority of his time.
“Those of us who have studied
people saw what would happen in Asia
before those who based their predic-
tions on economics. If you just study
the markets you will be 10 – 20 year
behind. We, on the other hand, saw
infant mortality falling, two-children
families emerging and education im-
proving before the economic growth
came.”
HANS rOSLiNG BELiEvES that today
countries go through three phases in
order for their populations to do well:
first people become healthy and learn
to read and write; next small families
are created; then people get a good
education, and finally they become
wealthy. Primary school is needed to
become healthy; secondary school
to build a small family; and finally,
higher education to become rich. The
new order of development is evident in
Asia. However, Hans sees a discrep-
ancy between how Asia is perceived
by the general public and how it is
perceived by business leaders.
“The general public’s notion of Asia
today is that poorly paid workers make
shoes and clothes or furniture for Ikea,
while business leaders look at Asia and
think: ‘Wow! They are the best engi-
neers because they’ve studied so much
harder, and look at how many custom-
ers there are there.’ Both are right.”
According to Hans, Western
Europe and North America have
engineers that are just as talented, but
there are not as many that are good
anywhere else. Another change is the
big transformation, i.e. where just a
few years ago the big corporations
moved their manufacturing to Asia to
produce goods cheaply and sell them
in Western Europe and North Ameri-
ca. Today, companies are moving there
to sell in Asia because that’s where
the customers are. According to Hans
Rosling, Paul Krugman, winner of the
2008 Nobel Prize in Economics, said
it best: “What we called outsourcing
will in future be called insourcing,” in
other words, we are moving businesses
into the world.
iN 2011 tHE global population passed
the seven-billion mark. Of this
amount, a billion live in America, a
billion in Europe, a billion in Africa
and four billion in Asia. That means
we are already an Asian world. Within
the next forty years there will be two
billion more of us.
“We need to recognise that the UN’s
population division has never missed
the mark by more than 10 percent
in its forty years of projections. The
demographers are incredibly good
at predicting what will happen,”
exclaims Hans enthusiastically.
A billion will be added to the popu-
lation in Africa and a billion in Asia. If
we divide North and South America,
the breakdown is about 400 million
in North America and 600 million in
South America. Hans believes that the
old Cold War border will still have a
certain significance in 2050, and if we
divide up Eastern and Western Europe
at this border, it will be clear that what
we call the Western World will only be
one billion out of nine in 2050.
“That’s a ninth of the world. The
number of people alone is what is
making all of the big corporations
change their mindset. It is where the
people will be that is the deciding fac-
tor. I’ve come up with a different name
for what we usually call the develop-
ing world. I think we should call it
the World. Then it’s not a question of
how they will catch up, but how the
old world can integrate itself into the
modern world,” he says.
Hans Rosling believes that old
concepts of the world are an obstacle
Hans Rosling. Population growth now and in forty years
according to hans rosling, a professor in public health science, forecasts indicate that the human population will reach the nine-million mark in 2050. no one can say what the world will look like then, but from a population standpoint there are already clear indications of the global situation in forty years.
name: Hans Rosling
home: House in Uppsala
family: Wife, cat and three children who have left the nest
education: Statistics, medicine and international development
career: medical doctor in Hälsingland and moçambique, research in Uppsala and at Karolinksa Institute, and educator on youtube
issue close to his heart at iva: Spreading a fact-based world view
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for understanding it, and these obstacles need
to be removed. The idea of industrialised coun-
tries/developing countries is one such obstacle,
according to him. There are countries with all
income levels – from the Congo at the bottom
to Norway at the top, but there is no clear gap
anywhere.
HANS rOSLiNG iS extremely critical of how
people talk about us and them in the climate
debate; the way we claim that developing coun-
tries are not going to be allowed to make our
mistakes, that they must find a different way.
Hans shows a photo of a poor Indian woman
crouching next to a washtub.
“This is the women who is not supposed to
repeat our mistake, and she’s saying: ‘I would
gladly make the washing machine mistake
again.’ Lots of people imagine a developing
world where they play a flute and cook their
food over an open fire, or grind meal to make
flour in a mortal, and they compare this to an
industrialised world with all of its luxury. The
woman by the washtub in the photo is saying:
‘We have to calculate each person’s carbon
footprint.’ As I see it, the climate negotiators
from the richest countries want to remain
emissions exempt – just as noblemen were tax
exempt; OECD nations are giving themselves
the right to continue releasing more emissions
for many decades to come.”
“The fact that the poorest people will be
using the cheapest energy sources to operate
their washing machines is as obvious to me as
the fact that the poorest eat the cheapest bread.
The OECD nations currently derive about
one percent of their energy production from
the earth, sun and wind, while the absolute
poorest nations are expected to get the major-
ity of their energy from these sources. Coal
energy-based Germany, which decided to close
its nuclear power plants before its coal energy
plants, is like the nail in the coffin for the idea
that the poor should go first along a more
expensive path,” says Hans Rosling.
Hans Rosling believes that the OECD nations
that are ten times as rich have infinitely more
possibilities to reduce their emission levels
than the middle-income nations have to avoid
raising theirs with the absolute cheapest type
of energy.
The world is changing fast. Today every
Brazilian citizen is lending 1,000 dollars to
the US. Angola is covering Portugal’s budget
deficit. Angola owns 30 percent of Portugal’s
biggest bank. Another rapidly advancing na-
tion, according to Hans Rosling, is Tanzania.
Today, Tanzania’s economy, family size and
health are similar to those of Thailand in 1972.
Tanzania is enjoying faster economic growth
than Sweden, and infant mortality there is fall-
ing as fast as it did in the 1900s in Sweden.
iN HONG KONG the average birth rate is one
child per woman. In Japan and South Korea
women are giving birth to 1.3 children, while
the figure for Sweden is 1.9. Why is that?
According to Hans Rosling, the answer is
equality.
“In Sweden women can have children
and work. In the other countries they have
to choose. So if equality in Asia improves,
there will probably be more children over the
next few decades. We are used to saying that
increased equality for women means smaller
families, and that’s true to a certain extent.
When there is even more equality, the number
of children rises as equality increases. If the
Japanese women didn’t have to take care of
their parents-in-law; if the country intro-
duced other living options for the elderly, the
women would have more children. Greater
equality for women in Africa will reduce the
size of families, while increased equality in
large parts of Asia will increase the size of
families.”
Hans Rosling lectures all around the world.
After learning about his sometimes provoca-
tive methods of putting all the facts on the
table, many people in power as well as business
leaders have admitted that it’s a real eye-open-
er. Naturally Hans thinks that’s a good thing.
“I hear people saying they’re afraid to think
about the future of the planet. I’m afraid not to
think about it!”
In 2011 Hans Rosling was elected into
IVA’s Education and Research Policy division.
In 2010 he was presented with IVA’s Gold
Medal.
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IVA’s regional activities are mainly arranged
through IVA South and IVA West. These
groups consist of members of IVA and IVA’s
Business Executives Council who live in
southern or western Sweden.
The objective of IVA South and IVA West
is to bring IVA’s activities into the regions
and give IVA a regional presence by creating
meeting places – usually Lund or Gothenburg
– where members can follow the progress in
their home regions and provide input for IVA’s
work. They also bring an IVA perspective
to regional issues focusing on engineering,
economics and industry.
The main work of IVA South and IVA
West involves arranging seminars, visits to
companies and institutions, and work groups
to focus on specific issues.
Education and research are areas prioritised
by IVA. The Student Council exists so that IVA
can get current perspectives from students as
well as a good insight into higher education in
Sweden. The Student Council brings up impor-
tant issues for debate within and outside IVA
and promotes a knowledge exchange between
generations. The Council, which is a natural
reference resource for IVA’s projects and divi-
sions, meets twice a year.
Representatives from all of Sweden’s
M.Sc. engineering programmes, the Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences, Stock-
holm School of Economics and the University
of Gothenburg’s School of Business serve as
liaisons between the academic institutions and
IVA and are council members for two years. The
Council’s activities are largely project based
and are run at both the national and regional
levels. Topics addressed by the Student Council
include collaboration between industry and
students, interest in engineering among young
people, higher education choices among upper
secondary students and entrepreneurship.
Eight out of ten people in the Swedish
workforce work with services of some kind.
A service can be fairly simple or extremely
knowledge-intensive and creative. It is neces-
sary to increase awareness of the importance
of service production and what it involves,
and this was the premise for IVA’s Service
Initiative which began in 2010. This past year
the network has, among other things, initiated
the production of an anthology on the Swedish
service sector and launched a series of study
visits to successful service companies.
Offerings where services are combined
with products are a cornerstone of Sweden’s
knowledge-intensive economy. Awareness of
the importance of service production needs to
be emphasised and be at the core of a com-
pany’s strategy, because even if the knowledge
exists, it is often not widespread.
One way of increasing awareness is to show
how some organisations are working with
services. In 2011 the Service Initiative, chaired
by Marie Ehrling, launched a series of study
visits, beginning with visits to three successful
service companies in completely different sec-
tors: Upplands Motor, Ongame and Ericsson.
“The study visits will help us understand
the critical factors behind the success of these
service companies. Upplands Motor made its
name by offering unexpected services, turning
aspects of the car industry upside down, like
offering massages while people wait to have
their car serviced. Swedish Ongame, which is
a world leader in developing IT solutions for
online poker, has net sales exceeding those
of OMX and higher IT security than insurance
companies. They are driving their industries
forward,” says Arvid Söderhall, Project Man-
ager for the Service Initiative.
The study visit to Ericsson has yet to take
place, but four success factors have already
been identified:
Leadership is crucial for the success of a ser-
vice company. Leaders need to have the ability
to effectively communicate their visions to the
employees who in turn need the ability to solve
problems.
The employees are the second important
success factor. All service companies need
employees who are prepared to solve problems
independently.
Creative business models that are chal-
lenging are the third success factor. Upplands
Motor is doing the opposite of its competitors
and selling car brands not normally sold under
the same roof.
Structure capital, i.e. the company’s work
processes and routines are a crucial success
factor.
A seminar that summarises the experiences
gained during the visits will be held in March
2012, and in connection with the Annual
Meeting in May, a final report summarising all
of the experiences will be presented.
In addition to the study visit series, the Ser-
vice Initiative initiated an anthology in 2011
on the Swedish service sector to be produced
in cooperation with the Research Institute of
Industrial Economics (IFN). The anthology will
be launched at the Annual Meeting in May
2012.
IVA Across. IVA South & West, Student Council & The Service Initiative
IVA South & West. IVA at two points of the compass
IVA’s Student Council. Student Council important for future development
The Service Initiative. Highlights good examples and initiates an anthology
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October saw the premiere of IVA’s
Royal Technology Tours. The idea
originated from a desire expressed
by His Majesty the King for IVA
to arrange an annual tour to various places in
Sweden with a link to IVA’s focus areas. The first
one was a two-day tour around Småland.
Marie Owe is Project Manager for IVA’s
Royal Technology Tours and worked with
the County Governor of Kronoberg County,
Kristina Alsér, to put together a comprehen-
sive programme that featured the famous
Småland spirit with visits to a number of the
region’s most successful companies and to Lin-
naeus University. A dinner at the Governor’s
residence in Växjö was the venue for continued
discussion between several representatives
from industry and academia in the region.
“We were very careful to point out that we
wanted to learn about the companies by visit-
ing their production facilities and not from
board room presentations,” says Marie Owe.
“The tour was extremely interactive and I
hope that, once the delegates got home, they
were able to implement what they learned in
Småland within their own areas.”
Småland-style entrepreneurship has a long
tradition, often passed down from genera-
tion to generation. As companies grow and in
some cases branch out into the international
market, there is a constant recruitment need.
According to LG Produktion in Hovmantorp
which produces aluminium chassis for mobile
computers, there is a shortage of students with
an engineering focus graduating from upper
secondary schools.
IVA’s activities and topics covered
within the Academy’s many divisions
spark interest far beyond the building
on Grev Turegatan in Stockholm.
An example of this is the subscribers to
IVA’s newspaper, IVA-aktuellt. In Sweden
they come from Kiruna in the far north
to Falsterbo in the far south. It could be
considered a nationwide newspaper, albeit
on a modest scale.
Not all copies of the paper stay in
Sweden. The last issue in 2011 reached
subscribers in 35 countries. There are read-
ers in Singapore, Japan, Peru, Oman and
China. Most of the overseas subscribers are,
of course, in the Nordic countries and ad-
dresses in Finland dominate.
In 2011 we added just over 200 new
subscribers. The circulation is essentially the
same: 6,400 for each issue. In total 57,557
copies were distributed in 2011. That’s
about 200 more than the year before.
Almost half of all articles originated from
IVA’s activities, which means the paper was
more IVA-focused than in previous years.
The paper covered and referred to 86 IVA
meetings of various kinds. Just under a third
of all articles described the Academy’s work.
Two out of ten were about IVA’s projects and
5 percent covered the Business Executives
Council.
The choice of subjects does not en-
tirely reflect IVA’s activities, which were
dominated by innovation in 2011. Instead
IVA-aktuellt paid more attention to enter-
prise. This is partly due to all the attention
given to IVA’s Service Initiative in the
paper’s columns. But energy, the environ-
ment, research/researchers and innovation
provided material for many of the articles
as well.
IVA’s Royal Technology Tours. The Småland spirit – a successful model for Swedish innovation
IVA-aktuellt. Wide reach
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After ten years at IVA, first as Presi-
dent and then as Chairman, Lena
Treschow Torell is saying goodbye.
She describes her decade at IVA as a
complete experience.
Lena Treschow Torell took up the post as
President of IVA in 2001. Seven years later she
handed over that role to our current President
Björn O. Nilsson and took over as Chairman
after Hans Dalborg.
”It’s hard to process all of the impressions
from ten years. Meetings with people, leaders,
researchers and politicians come to mind.
There has been a steady stream of people I’ve
learnt from or tried to influence. Combined
with all of IVA’s projects and missions, it has
been a complete experience,” says Lena Tre-
schow Torell, who is handing over the Chair-
man’s gavel to Leif Johansson.
Her ambition has always been for IVA to be
a real presence in the debate. She points out
that IVA is a unique meetingplace at the inter-
section of academia, politics and business.
“I have worked on forging strong ties be-
tween the political sphere and IVA. Politicians, or
ministry officials, have frequently participated
in our projects. It’s good to carry on a dialogue
while working on proposals for change.”
Both as President and Chairman, Lena Tre-
schow Torell has emphasised the importance
of an international perspective. Nine missions,
of which seven were to other countries, have
made an impression.
Lena Treschow Torell is convinced that IVA
has an important mission and that Sweden
needs all the help it can get in the great globali-
sation process.
“IVA should continue to be a door opener in
Brussels and China, and why not India as well?
We need to keep focusing on the international
arena,” says Lena Treschow Torell.
Lena Treschow Torell. Retiring Chairman
30 | prOjecTs
Establish strategic research and inno-
vation areas to meet the great chal-
lenges in society. Increase resources
to industrial research institutes and
give them a more clearly defined role in, for
example, EU programmes. And invest in strong
research teams. These are a few of the propos-
als from IVA’s input for the 2012 research and
innovation bill.
The government asked IVA for input as it
prepares its research and innovation policy bill
to be presented in autumn 2012.
“We essentially started from an innovation
perspective when preparing our input,” says
IVA’s President Björn O. Nilsson. “Academia
is certainly playing a very important role in
the ecosystem that is building up Sweden’s
innovation capacity by, for example, supplying
competence. But only a small percentage of in-
novations come directly from discoveries made
in academic research.”
Among other things, IVA is proposing that
the Government establishes strategic research
and innovation areas, rather than just the
strategic research areas introduced in the last
bill. Having strategic research and innovation
areas would facilitate government initiatives
and priorities in order to support the entire
research and innovation chain. The strategic
areas should focus mainly on finding concrete
solutions for global challenges.
IVA proposes introducing strategic research
and innovation areas to focus on developing
solutions in the following areas:
• Theagingpopulation
• Sustainableandattractivecities
• Healthcareofthefuture
• Competitiveproduction
• Informationsociety3.0
• Sustainableenergyproduction
and consumption
In addition to the strategic areas idea, IVA
is proposing that “free” research should be
concentrated to effective research teams
who should be given ample resources. The
universities should also, to a greater extent,
profile themselves based on their development
capacity and other strengths. Also, industrial
research institutes should be provided with
better resources in line with their counterparts
in other countries. Efforts should be made as
soon as possible to reach the one-percent goal
for state funded research (the current level
according to official statistics is 0.89 percent of
GDP). And collaboration between industry and
academia should be significantly increased.
“We are hoping that the Ministries of
Enterprise and Education will continue to be
interested in IVA’s opinions as they continue
their work on the bill,” says Björn O. Nilsson.
IVA’s Innovation for Growth and Agenda
for Research projects as well as all of the
Academy’s divisions contributed to IVA’s
input.
IVA’s input for the research and innovation bill. IVA proposes greater cooperation between industry and academia
prOjecTs | 31
The pace of change in global devel-
opment has increased dramatically
over the past decade. Globalisation
has been good for Sweden. We
are profiting from a world that is opening up.
When a large portion of the global population
is participating in the exchange of ideas, work,
goods and services, prosperity increases.
But globalisation has not only lifted people
out of poverty and created new business op-
portunities for Swedish export companies,
it is also changing the conditions for Sweden
in the world. Globalisation means we need
to improve our capacity to compete with the
world around us.
Right now Sweden is one of the strongest
economies in Europe. But that doesn’t mean we
can sit back and relax. Competition from new,
fast-growing economies is the biggest challenge
for both Sweden and Europe. Countries are
going from simple manufacturing to advanced
research. Sweden is being challenged.
Our most important task in handling the
growing competition is making Sweden a
stronger knowledge nation and I would like
to highlight some important reforms that will
make Sweden strong, with the best possible
education and research.
We need to improve the quality of our
schools and we are currently introducing a long
series of reforms to do that. One important
aspect of this is raising knowledge and interest
in maths and sciences. A special educational
initiative for teachers called Mattelyftet is
focusing on reading, writing and arithmetic in
the first years of primary school, more time for
maths instruction in the classroom, honours
courses and science centres to stimulate curios-
ity among school children in science. These
are some of the initiatives that are underway
to build an interest in science and thereby raise
results in Swedish schools.
But while schools are there to convey exist-
ing knowledge, universities have the unique
task of questioning what we already know and
developing new knowledge.
We have implemented a historic initiative in
Swedish research. Never before have research
grants increased so much in such a short
period of time as in connection with the 2008
Research Bill. We reached our goal for Sweden
of allocating one percent of GDP to publically
funded research.
Good quality in research makes us stronger, but
it is also finding solutions to challenges for man-
kind, such as the climate threat and antibiotic-
resistant diseases. And this can only be achieved
through knowledge and research.
Having a broad research policy is benefitting
Sweden, but we also need to be bold enough to
prioritise and invest in excellence. Our universi-
ties have a number of roles and the balance
between education and research varies. Most of
them need to embrace the important mission of
meeting regional education needs with a broad
range of programmes. I also feel that Sweden
needs a number of universities with the ambi-
tion to be top-class institutions internationally.
Some of the research environments at these
universities should be world leaders within
their niches. Along these lines, we are now
investing in very large science research facilities
in Lund (MAX IV and ESS) and in a new, leading
biomedical centre in Stockholm and Uppsala.
This is a step in the right direction for Sweden
to become a world leader.
In this context, I should also mention the
importance of a strengthened innovation pol-
icy. This is essential for our efforts to develop
and use our research results.
In today’s globalised world, knowledge
– both a high level of knowledge and new
knowledge results – is the most important tool
to make our country competitive.
Jan Björklund (liberal party)
Minister for education and research
Jan Björklund. Sweden’s chal-lenges in the globalisation era
32 | MeeTings
Meetings at IVA. Knowledge exchange for cross-fertilisation and networking
iVa is an independent arena for the exchange of knowledge. By initiating and stimulating contacts between experts from different disciplines and countries, the academy promotes cross-fertilisation and acts as a bridge builder between industry, the research community, public administration and various interest groups. iVa believes that meetings between people are important. One of the methods used by iVa to stimulate networking involves arranging lectures, conferences and seminars. when people come together, new ideas are generated and new knowledge emerges.
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34 | MeeTings
Founded in 1919, IVA is the world’s
first and thereby its oldest academy of
engineering sciences. It is often used as
a model when other countries establish
their own engineering sciences academies. The
Academy’s linchpins and tradition bearers are
the divisions and all of their activities.
IVA’s Swedish members are assigned to one
of twelve subject-based divisions. The Divi-
sions function as committees and have a chair-
man and a secretary. In 2011 there were 877
Swedish members and 269 foreign members.
Division activities form an important foun-
dation. Ingrid Jansson has worked as a division
coordinator since 2007.
“IVA’s role as a tradition bearer is an
important one; partly because the members
appreciate the traditions, but also because it
distinguishes us from other organisations. The
things that set us apart, not least of which is
our Annual Meeting and banquet, are highly
valued and serve as a link with history.”
The idea is for IVA to be an attractive
meeting place for all of its members. The fact
that the members are active in a wide range of
areas means that meetings between them are
dynamic and interesting.
“An important role of the divisions is to pro-
vide for the interests of the members so they see
the value in coming here. I also believe the mem-
bers appreciate the opportunity of impacting
the public discourse through their involvement
in IVA. The social aspect in the form of delicious
dinners and pleasant company should not be
underestimated either,” says Ingrid Jansson.
IVA’s Divisions. Proud tradition bearers and linchpins
MeeTings | 35
A couple of years ago IVA started
the tradition of inviting Academy
members and members of IVA’s
Business Executives Council, Stu-
dent Council, Industrial Research Committee
and associated organisations to an early sum-
mer party in IVA’s verdant garden in conjunc-
tion with the Academy Meeting in June.
The summer party allows people in IVA’s
network to meet each other in an informal
setting where they can engage in interesting
conversation and knowledge exchange. During
the gathering the guests are also given the op-
portunity to provide suggestions and input on
the Academy’s projects and other activities. The
theme for discussion in 2011 was the Govern-
ment’s upcoming research and innovation bill.
Four times a year academy meetings are
held at which a number of new members are
elected. Altogether IVA has 877 Swedish and
269 foreign members.
“The cutting edge expertise that the
members bring makes IVA a very broad and
powerful network,” says IVA’s President Björn
O. Nilsson, who was elected into the Academy
fifteen years ago.
Summer party. Get-together and sunshine in IVA’s garden
Tor Bonnier & Håkan Gergils.
Saeid Esmaeilzadeh.
Birgit Erngren-Wohlin.Björn Savén & Lotta Thörn.
The world was shocked when the
news came about an earthquake
off the coast of Japan leading to
an enormous tsunami washing
over the country’s east coast.
The volume of water not only
took thousands of human lives
and caused enormous damage,
it also impacted the electricity
supply when all of the nuclear
power plants were shut down. The
tsunami also took out the power
supply to the Fukushima nuclear
power plants, which stopped the
reactors being cooled with melt
down as the result. Radioactive
emissions were measured in both
air and water.
Many important details about
the course of events are still un-
clear. An early analysis of the situ-
ation was carried out by German
VGB Power Tech and presented
at a very well-attended seminar
arranged by IVA. In addition to a
presentation by technical advisor
at VGB Power Tech, Thomas Lin-
nermann, the scientific attaché
at the Japanese Embassy, Ryuma
Ohora, gave the audience an
insight into the disaster and its
consequences. The Swedish nu-
clear power companies Vattenfall
and E.ON added their perspectives
on the accident through Magnus
Reinsjö and Per Lindell. Lennart
Carlsson of the Swedish Radiation
Safety Authority said that we can
learn a lot from Fukushima and
that it will affect safety work at
Swedish nuclear power plants as
well. Among other things, it has
resulted in a requirement for stress
tests at all nuclear power plants in
the EU.
One of the EU goals is a two-fold
increase in the volume of energy
from biomass by 2020. But it’s a
long time until then and opinions
differ on how biomass should be
used to reduce emissions.
IVA’s Energy and Environment
Council and IVA’s Electrical En-
gineering and Forest Technology
divisions came together to arrange
a seminar in November on the
theme “Bioenergy in the EU’s 2020
goals.” According to these goals,
emissions of greenhouse gases
are to be reduced by 20 percent,
renewable energy sources are to
account for 20 percent of Europe’s
final energy consumption and
energy efficiency is to increase by
20 percent.
Various players gave their views
on how biomass is the very best
alternative to reduce carbon levels
in the atmosphere. One proposed
solution was to replace coal with
biopellets. The challenge there is
refining biomass so that it can be
burned in the same way as coal.
Another proposal for reaching the
EU goals was better use of the for-
est for high value-added products.
The last link in the production
chain should involve producing
energy. Producing biodiesel from
tall oil was one proposal that was
highlighted. In this context the
lack of a long-term perspective in
the regulations was brought up and
consequently the difficulty imple-
menting large investments in fuel
development. The last area that
was addressed was food produc-
tion that uses substantial amounts
of fossil fuels. Today 30 percent of
the food produced is scrapped and
if that can be reduced the climate
will be the winner.
The seminar was based on a
study entitled Biomass for Heat
and Power– opportunities and
economics.
Few topics have been discussed
with such intensity as the price of
electricity. The efficiency of the
electricity market is constantly
being discussed as well, and it is
obvious that the energy compa-
nies, basic industry and consumers
have very different opinions.
Swedes spend about 3 percent
of their income on electricity – the
second highest percentage in Eu-
rope after Bulgaria. The average
for a European household is 1.4
percent. Swedish electricity prices
have increased by 80 percent since
1999, the second highest increase
in Europe after Ireland. So it is
hardly surprising that studies
show that the price of electricity
is one of the issues Swedes worry
about the most.
IVA’s Electrical Engineering
division arranged a seminar in
April to try to provide an objective
picture of the background and
structure of today’s electricity
market and to stimulate an open
discussion on possible improve-
ments to the market. The panel of
experts consisted of Holmen’s CEO
Magnus Hall, Svensk Energi’s CEO
Kjell Jansson, Director General
of the Energy Markets Inspector-
ate, Yvonne Fredriksson, State
Secretary Daniel Johansson and
Urban Kärrmarck of the Swedish
Energy Agency.
The electricity market was
deregulated to promote a more
efficient use of invested funds. A
common view at the seminar was
that this goal has been reached,
but that the profits have stayed
with the producers and the
Government. Consumers have
only been able to share in a small
portion of the profits. The fact
that electricity taxation is good
business for the Government was
a particular point of discussion at
the seminar. SEK 47 billion a year
goes to the Government’s coffers.
That is more than the national
income tax brings in.
Events at IVA. A selection of seminars arranged in 2011 by IVA’s Divisions and projects
Seminar on 9 May. Lessons from the Fuku-shima nuclear disaster
Seminar on 16 November. Bioenergy in the EU’s 2020 goals
Seminar on 18 April. Can the electricity market be more efficient?
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From 1960 until the mid 1990s
the municipalities and country
councils accounted for the entire
net increase in jobs in the welfare
sector. Private entrepreneurs were
almost completely excluded from
healthcare, schools and care. Since
then many publicly financed ser-
vices have been exposed to com-
petition – most recently thanks to
the Act on Free Choice Systems.
But one challenge that remains is
how to ensure that funding keeps
up with public demand, which, for
these services, tends to increase
faster than income growth.
Many public services are well
suited for private production, even
though the difficulty involved in
writing quality contracts poses
problems in some areas. Private
service production is usually
cheaper than public sector service
production. Another consequence
of letting private companies into
the welfare sector is that news
about successful examples can
spread further, and peripheral
services and associated business
areas are stimulated.
In connection with the annual
meeting in June, IVA’s Service
Initiative arranged a seminar
led by Chairman Marie Ehrling
on privatisation of the welfare
sector. The seminar was kicked
off by Eric Giertz, professor of
industrial economics and or-
ganisation at KTH, who described
business development and busi-
ness innovation in commercial
service markets. He was followed
by Henrik Jordahl, a researcher
at the Research Institute of
Industrial Economics (IFN), who
described the privatisation of the
welfare sector in theory and in
practice.
Rare earth metals are essential
raw materials for nearly all mod-
ern products: hybrid and electric
cars, wind power stations, solar
cells and mobile devices, to name
but a few. Almost all extraction of
these coveted metals takes place in
China and prospecting is increas-
ing rapidly. In Sweden too, several
companies are searching for these
expensive metals.
The consumption of metals has
increased by 5–10 percent a year
over the past decade. The predic-
tions for the next decade indicate
continued strong growth. Against
the backdrop of this growing
demand, IVA’s Mining and Materi-
als division arranged a lecture
in April aimed at highlighting
issues and promoting discussion
about the world’s supply of raw
materials.
Magnus Ericsson, senior part-
ner at the Raw Materials Group
and member of IVA’s Mining and
Materials division, and Mugdim
Slamovic, programme director at
the Geological Survey of Sweden
(SGU), shared their experiences
regarding the extraction of earth
metals. One of the conclusions
was that these materials are, in
fact, not all that rare.
Gouzhu Ye is a senior research-
er at the Swerea research group
and is working on a project aimed
at separating the element vanadin
from, among other sources, LKAB
pellets, pig iron and slag. Vanadin
is used in alloys.
“My idea is to separate slag into
vanadin and a residual product
that could be used as filling in
walls etc.” he said in his speech.
Norrbotten faces both major
challenges and new opportunities.
Examples include the supply of
competence to the growing high-
tech basic industry, developing
e-health and moving the city of
Kiruna. To meet these challenges,
a long-term regional strategy is in
order.
At a seminar in Luleå on 14
November, IVA, the Swedish min-
ing company LKAB and Luleå Uni-
versity of Technology discussed
regional innovation capacity. At
the seminar, various regional
initiatives were presented and a
workshop was arranged on the
topic of working with regional,
national and international innova-
tion strategies.
Presentations of the Gov-
ernment’s national innovation
strategy work, IVA’s contribution
in the form of the Innovation Plan
Sweden report and how Värmland
created its own innovation strat-
egy, were all sources of inspiration
at the workshop.
LKAB talked about its new
academy which is a strategic tool
to meet the company’s need for
qualified employees. Facebook’s
placement of server halls in Luleå
has attracted a lot of international
attention. Seminar participants
were given an informed descrip-
tion of the work of setting them
up, where a concentrated effort
based on a collaborative platform
was crucial.
Better and cheaper products from
more Chinese companies – that’s
what the global market can look
forward to. The Chinese strategy
is currently to prioritise innovation
and sustainability over low wages.
This emerged at IVA’s Royal Tech-
nology Forum in October.
The theme was “Successful
International Innovation Practices”
and it was linked to the Innovation
for Growth project. One of the
speakers was Professor XUE Lan,
dean of the School of Public Policy
and Management at Tsinghua
University in China. He told the
audience about China’s new strate-
gies for both research and growth.
“We are in the process of
establishing an integrated policy
for innovation. The focus is shift-
ing from GNP-oriented growth to
more coordinated growth,” said
XUE Lan.
The country’s large trade surplus
has up to now come from multina-
tional companies and joint ventures.
“In the future more Chinese
companies will be competing in-
ternationally with their own better
and cheaper products,” he says.
Since 2006 China’s global
integration has been reinforced by
changes at home. This develop-
ment is continuing. The goal is to
create an innovation-based China
by 2020. This is being done by
investing in a number of priori-
tised industries: biotech, produc-
tion equipment for cutting edge
products, IT, alternative energy,
new materials and green cars.
In addition to the Chinese in-
novation initiatives, the audience
heard about innovation efforts in
the Baltic region and France from
Professor Christian Ketels, Princi-
pal Associate at Harvard Business
School in the US, and from one
of IVA’s foreign members, Laure
Rein hart, Deputy General Man-
ager of Innovation and Technol-
ogy at OSEO in France.
The role of universities in
innovation success was also high-
lighted at the forum.
IVA’s Service Initiative. Threats and opportunities with welfare privatisation
Seminar on 12 April. Raw material supply
Seminar on 14 November.New innovation strategy and new investment for Norrbotten
Seminar on 27 October.IVA’s Royal Technology Forum
38 | POlItIcAl WeeK In VISby
IVA in Almedalen. Focusing on innovation and transport sector challengesin 2011 iVa took a very active part in the political week in Visby, gotland, arranging three seminars, an energy-themed reception and a dinner for interesting guests. and there were also many exciting encounters at meetings arranged by iVa and other organisations. Two of iVa’s seminars during the 2011 political week focused on innovation and the third on the challenges in the transport sector. The moderator for all of the seminars was sharon jåma.
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40 | pOliTical week in VisBy
tHE firSt SEMiNAr, a part of the Innovation
for Growth project, was held on 4 July to lay
the foundation for Innovation Plan Sweden.
The need for a national innovation strat-
egy was discussed, and the need for a good
regulatory framework and a reasonable tax
system was highlighted. The seminar filled
County Governor’s garden and the guests
included KriStiNA ALSér, Kronoberg County
Governor, PONtuS BrAuNErHJELM, KTH,
CHArLOttE BrOGrEN, Vinnova, CHriStiNA
LuGNEt, Swedish Agency for Economic
and Regional Growth, CECiLiA SCHELiN
SEidEGÅrd, Gotland County Governor, ÅKE
SvENSSON, Teknikföretagen, SuSANNE ÅS
SivBOrG, Swedish Patent and Registration
Office (PRV), JOHAN CArLStEdt, Innovation
for Growth and BJörN O. NiLSSON, IVA.
Innovation for the future I. How Sweden can achieve the world’s best innovation climate
pOliTical week in VisBy | 41
tHE SECONd tHEME for this year’s polit-
cal week was challenges in the transport
sector, as highlighted in the Transport
2030 project. The topics were the climate,
environment, EU and globalisation. The
seminar marked the conclusion of Trans-
port 2030 and was the formal starting shot
for the new national forum proposed by
the project. The forum will not be run by
IVA, but will still have an IVA connection
through the forum’s chairman who is an
IVA member.
Participants were: CHArLOttE BrOGrEN,
VINNOVA, urBAN KArLStröM & PiA
KiNHuLt, Region Skåne, MiKAEL StöHr,
Green Cargo, JAN-EriC SuNdGrEN, AB Volvo,
GuNNAr MALM, Swedish Transportation
Administration, JONAS SuNdBErG, Transport
2030 and BJörN O. NiLSSON, IVA. The seminar
took place at Payex Tryckeri on 5 July.
tHE iNNOvAtiON fOr GrOWtH
project’s second seminar focused
on young politicians and entrepre-
neurs. What changes do entre-
preneurs believe are necessary
for Sweden to become the world’s
best innovation nation? What do
political youth leagues want to do
to promote innovation? What are
the visions of young politicians and
entrepreneurs and how will they
reach their goals? These were ques-
tions that came up in the innovation
debate with representatives from
political youth leagues and young
entrepreneurs.
The seminar included: JOHAN
CArLStEdt, Innovation for Growth,
HENriK ArWidSSON, Ung Innova-
tionskraft, CHArLiE HANSSON, Chas
Visual Management, CHriStiNA
LAMPE-öNNErud, Boston Power,
OSCAr LuNdiN, Young Care in
Sweden, EriK BEGtzBOE, Moderate
Party youth league, rEBECKA CArLS-
SON, Green Party youth league,
ArON MOdiG, Christian Democratic
party youth league, LiNdA NOrd-
LuNd, Liberal Party youth league,
HANNA WAGENiuS, Centre Party
Youth, ELLiNOr EriKSSON, Swedish
Social Democratic Youth League och
CLArA LiNdBLOM, Young Left.
Transport 2030. Challenges and proposed solutions
Innovation for the future II. Innovation by young politicians and entrepreneurs
42 | pOrTraiT
The energy issue plays an
extremely important role
in the energy-intensive
steel industry in which
Elisabeth Nilsson has spent most of
her working life. For many years she
worked within SSAB. She was also
President of the Swedish Steel Produc-
ers’ Association. In addition to her
current role as County Governor of
Östergötland Country, she is on the
boards of the Finnish steel company
Outokumpus and the Swedish forestry
company Sveaskog. Based on her expe-
riences, she stresses the importance of
taking a less ideological view of the en-
ergy supply issue and instead applying
more science and technology expertise.
The fact that the energy issue is highly
political – and needs to be high up on
the political agenda – is obvious ac-
cording to Elisabeth Nilsson, because
of its significance in areas such as
security of supply, security in society,
climate policy, economic policy and
competition.
“It’s not about preferring or ‘loving’
any particular form of energy produc-
tion more or less, but really working
out what the different types of energy
involve from different perspectives,”
says Elisabeth Nilsson.
ELiSABEtH MENtiONS CLiMAtE change
and the rising carbon dioxide levels in
the atmosphere as the main challenges
for the planet. Unfortunately, ac-
cording to Elisabeth, despite our awa-
reness and active measures within the
EU, carbon dioxide levels are going to
continue to rise because it takes time
to bring down emission levels, and this
is largely due to the current political
interests in many countries. Coal
will continue to be the biggest energy
resource for many nations, and more
and more coal power plants are being
opened around the world. Other fossil
fuel sources such as oil and gas also
affect the climate. As we know, access
to oil was one of the most important
factors in the rapid economic growth
in the 1900s, but the consequences for
the climate have been a point of discu-
ssion since the late 20th century.
“Two big challenges where
engineering expertise will play an
important role are how to develop a
sustainable energy system with mini-
mal carbon emissions, and one that
can produce energy for a reasonable
price,” says Elisabeth.
Costly energy may seem attractive
from a number of perspectives, but
rising energy prices lead, for example,
to rising food prices.
“When you think about what’s ac-
ceptable, it’s easy for us to think of the
issue from a Western perspective and
say: ‘We can probably tolerate a small
increase in energy prices; we’ll just
have to cut back on something else.’
But lots of people can’t do that because
it means higher food prices, which in
turn leads to famine in the poorest
countries,” says Elisabeth. “’Energy
poverty’ is a term used in many coun-
tries where electricity bills are rising to
a level that is more than poor house-
holds can manage. Industries that are
exposed to international competition
will become less competitive when the
Swedish energy prices rise more than
in our biggest competitor countries.”
When ethanol entered the energy
market, it was considered a very suc-
cessful solution by many. Today we
know that it has a less positive, dark
side.
“When we look at various types of
biofuel we need to look at the whole
chain. We need to take into account
how it is produced and transported.
Are we using land where rain forests
once grew? On paper it might look as
if biofuel has zero emissions, but in
reality cultivating crops for biofuel can
force out other crops. The conse-
quence is deforestation of rain forests
and the reduction of carbon dioxide
binding, which means we end up with
a negative calculation which at first
glance looked good,” says Elisabeth.
rENEWABLE ENErGy SOurCES are
important for the planet. Sweden has
a good supply of hydropower, and
compared to many other countries,
we have a good supply of biofuel as
well, which is used in particular in
district heating, as well as in energy
Elisabeth Nilsson. Energy – an important global challenge
after a long career in the steel industry, elisabeth nilsson became county governor of Östergötland county last year. in 2007 she was elected as a member of iVa, a membership that elisabeth believes offers many opportunities to participate and contribute to solutions to the big global challenges.
name: elisabeth nilsson
home: linköping castle
family: Husband Arne, siblings and their families
education: mining engineer
career: SSAb, various senior posi-tions, incl. ceO of merox, member of executive management for SSAb Oxelösund, ceO of jern-kontoret 2005–2010
issue close to her heart at iva: Participating in the public discourse, showing devel-opments in technology and impacting develop-ment in society in areas where the engineering sciences can make a big difference, e.g. in energy and climate, transport, medical technology
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production. Elisabeth also believes that
Sweden has many areas that are favourable
for wind power. Nuclear power will also play
an important role in the future, according
to Elisabeth. She points out that she is fully
aware of its inherent risks, but that research
and technological development indicate that
we will most likely be able to build a safer
system in the future to help reduce global
carbon emissions and produce electricity for a
competitive cost.
Cost-effective energy solutions are not just
for the electricity supply for homes and indus-
trial production, they are very important for
the transport sector as well.
“The big challenge is how we are going to
fuel our vehicles, and that’s where research, in-
novations and engineering expertise play a big
role. We’ve been talking about various forms
of hybrid technology, battery technology and
fuel cells for a long time, as well as different
types of liquid fuels. There is also discussion
about electric coils in roads as ‘enablers’ for
greener heavy goods traffic. Here, IVA can
contribute to an interesting debate on how to
find intelligent and cost-effective solutions,”
says Elisabeth Nilsson.
Elisabeth Nilsson was a member of the Steering
Committee for IVA’s Energy Crossroads project
which concluded in 2009 with the much talked
about report “The Five Directions.” The report
was actually produced to support politicians
with decisions on the issue of how to secure our
energy supply in the future with competitive
prices and without increasing emissions.
“Working on Energy Crossroads was
incredibly interesting. We looked at the whole
picture without any ideological blinkers.
That’s important if we are going to solve the
issue of our future energy supply – not just in
Sweden, but the whole world. We need to look
carefully at all possible solutions so that we
don’t get stuck in an old debate for and against
something. If we talk about the most contro-
versial issue, namely nuclear power, the impor-
tant thing is to look at safety systems and what
improvements are needed so that people living
close to nuclear power plants can feel safe, and
so that politicians aren’t afraid of taking such
decisions,” says Elisabeth Nilsson.
ANOtHEr CHALLENGE WitHOut the same con-
nection to IVA but that is science-related, is the
growing resistance to antibiotics.
“One of the biggest threats to public health is
the dangerous misuse and overprescribing of
antibiotics. We currently have the problem of
diseases that in the past could easily be cured
with antibiotics but that we can’t handle now.
Here too, science can enable us to find new
solutions,” says Elisabeth.
Elisabeth believes that new government
research funding is needed to overcome this
problem. Collaboration between universities,
university hospitals and the private sector is
essential. Elisabeth believes that vigorous joint
efforts in the EU and the WHO are absolutely
necessary.
Another important challenge, according
to Elisabeth, is turning around the negative
trend among today’s young people of a lack
of interest in studying science and technology.
This was discussed within the Government’s
Globalisation Council, in which Elisabeth
Nilsson was a member.
“I believe we sometimes make the mis-
take of talking about how engineering and
mathematics are so difficult, and that frightens
people away. Instead we need to emphasise the
positive aspects of engineering, maths and sci-
ences,” concludes Elisabeth Nilsson.
Industrial Research Committee. Study Trip to San Francisco
The Industrial Research Committee (IFG) is a forum
where each individual member represents a unique
subject field within the group, and together the
members form an interdisciplinary assembly that
covers the areas considered of strategic importance for the
future of Swedish industry.
The main purpose of IFG is to stimulate new ideas among
its members on how research and development can and should
be conducted. The main vehicle for knowledge transfer is the
extensive programme of study tours that IFG arranges to R&D
intensive companies around the country. This often involves
visits to IFG member companies and always spawns lively and
constructive discussion.
This year’s programme involved six visits or meetings
around the country and a study tour to San Francisco.
“This year’s IFG tour was to San Francisco in California. We
all thought that San Francisco, with its successful big corpora-
tions, numerous start-ups, dynamic venture capital companies
and world-class universities, would give us inspiration and
ideas that we could bring home to our own businesses. We felt
that we would all be able to put something of what we saw and
learned on the tour into practice at home,” said IFG’s Chairman
Eva Wigren.
Industrial Research Committee. Study Trip to San Francisco
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IVA’s Business Executives Council. New types of meetings and themes are a success for the Business Executives CouncilOne of the main missions of iVa is to offer a meeting place for the political, academic and business communities. The most important mission of iVa’s Business executives council (nr) is to attract companies to this arena.
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Much of IVA’s work involves
being a meeting place for the
political, academic and busi-
ness communities. The most
important mission of IVA’s Business Executives
Council (NR) is to attract companies to this
arena.
In 2012 NR reached out to both younger
business executives and companies that are
not necessarily linked with IVA in a traditional
sense. Most of them, however, have in common
that they are service-dominated businesses.
What attracts them is offering them contacts
with politicians, academia and colleagues in
the business world, and in return IVA can learn
about their experiences and involvement in
various projects.
“The theme for our annual meeting, CSR
as Part of the Business, was a good topic and
considered to be even more important for these
types of companies. In order to reach younger
target groups in particular it’s important to
highlight issues that they relate to and feel they
can benefit from,” says NR’s Chairman Erik
Lautmann.
This year NR has focused on activities
outside Stockholm by arranging two breakfast
meetings – one in Luleå and one in Gothen-
burg. There was also a meeting in Ludvika ar-
ranged in cooperation with member company
Samarkand.
“These activities were highly appreciated
and are a good example of how we are moving
IVA out into the regions,” said Erik, adding
that the number of member companies went up
to 197 in 2011.
Erik highlighted the success of the two min-
ister dinners held by NR in 2011. One was with
the Minister for Enterprise and Energy at that
time, Maud Olofsson, and focused on innova-
tion and the other with Minister for Education
Jan Björklund focusing on competence.
“Inviting a limited number of business
executives to a more intimate meeting focusing
on areas they are really interested in proved to
be highly appreciated,” says Erik Lautmann.
The board was expanded during the year to
include two new members: Saeid Esmaelzadeh,
CEO of Serendipity Innovations and SVT’s CEO
Eva Hamilton.
The international economic situ-
ation is serious but not hopeless
according to SEB’s CEO Annika
Falkengren who spoke at a
packed breakfast meeting arranged by IVA’s
Business Executives Council in September.
When IVA’s Business Executives Council
held a breakfast meeting on the theme The
Banking Sector in the Nordic Region, Eu-
rope and the World with SEB’s CEO Annika
Falkengren as the guest speaker, the chairs
quickly filled up. Annika Falkengren man-
aged to shed light on the European debt cri-
sis and to compare today’s banking system
with the financial crisis in 2008. She pointed
out that there are many differences. This
time, for instance, according to Annika,
companies have good access to the credit
markets if they are in need of capital.
SEB’s CEO expressed some doubt as to
whether even the strong Asian economies have
the muscle to handle the debt mountain built
up in other places around the world. She also
expressed the opinion that euro cooperation
was not as successful as it could have been.
Regional activities. New types of meetings and themes for the Business Executives Council
Breakfast meeting. Insights into the banking sector
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
has become an obvious strategy for
most companies and brands. Good
business requires good behaviour.
Good relationships with the surrounding com-
munity build confidence in a company.
IVA’s Business Executives Council and IVA’s
Management division arranged a popular
seminar on the theme of The Sustainable soci-
ety – Is CSR profitable? in connection with the
Business Executives Council’s annual meeting.
A number of companies that have CSR high up
on their agenda presented their methods and
discussed what running a sustainable business
involves.
Mining company Semafo, which has 3,000
employees, operates gold mines in three coun-
tries in Western Africa. The company’s CEO
Benoit La Salle was one of the speakers. He ex-
pressed that the company’s social commitment
was beneficial to the local communities and his
own company.
Anders Furbäck is a director at Swedish min-
ing company LKAB. According to Anders the
company’s relationship with Kiruna is impor-
tant – and mutual. His point was that without
an attractive society LKAB cannot be attractive
either. Accordingly, LKAB is taking a big share
of the responsibility when the city is moved.
Clas Ohlson’s CEO Klas Balkow told the
audience about his company’s work in this
area. He believes that CSR provides long-term
growth and that it can be integrated into all of
his operations.
Anna Gustafsson of Amnesty International
is responsible for the organisation’s work for hu-
man rights in industry. She pointed out that all
companies need to analyse and take responsibil-
ity for the effects that their business have. They
are also responsible for respecting human rights.
Ikea’s COO for global sustainability, Steve
Howard, emphasised how multifaceted CSR
is; it’s not just about the products but all of a
company’s processes as well. Håkan Wirtén
at WWF pointed out that the responsibility is
not only with companies, but that consumers
also have a responsibility to demand products
that have been produced from a sustainability
perspective.
As a way of bringing IVA’s Business
Executives Council to West Sweden,
the Council held its first breakfast
meeting in Lindholmen, Gothen-
burg. The guest of honour at this premiere event
was AB Volvo’s new President, Olof Persson,
and it would have been hard to find a more
appropriate person at that time. Olof Persson
had just completed his first 100 days on his new
job, and the previous week he had presented an
entirely new organisation. It contained quite a
few radical changes and many new challenges
for the company’s executives. It was described
in the media as the biggest reorganisation in the
country’s history. Attendance was high, with
around 70 people there to listen and of course
mingle with the other guests.
BEC Annual Meeting. Corporate social responsibility can give a company gold
Breakfast meeting. Volvo in focus
breAKFASt meetingS 2011
4 February: CArL-HENriC SvANBErG, BP
17 February: HÅKAN BuSKHE, Saab
23 March: öyStEiN LöSEtH, Vattenfall
13 April: ANdErS NyréN, Industrivärden
13 April: SAMArKANd (Ludvika)
29 September: ANNiKA fALKENGrEN, SEB
12 October, rONNiE LEtEN, Atlas Copco
15 November, OLOf PErSSON, Volvo AB
(Gothenburg)
18 November: KEitH MCLOuGHLiN,
Electrolux
1 December: LArS-EriC AArO, LKAB
(Luleå)
8 December: riCKArd GuStAfSON, SAS
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Economics and innovation
are two issues close to Björn
Savén’s heart. As CEO and
founder of the private equity
firm IK Investment Partners, he has
been involved in making investments
in mature industries with significant
underlying growth. Growth, and in
particular the ability to increase the
growth rate, should be at the top of
the agenda for politicians and business
executives according to Björn Savén,
who gives his view of the global chal-
lenges from an economics and innova-
tion perspective.
“The best solution for Sweden and
most other countries, particularly in
Southern Europe, is to speed up the
growth rate. That’s the smart way to
solve the big debt problems affecting
Southern Europe in particular. But
for Sweden too, a higher growth rate
would go a long way to help solve the
financial challenges we are facing so
that we can afford better healthcare,
schools and care as well as other
public spending. A faster growth rate
would also increase living standards,”
says Björn.
BJörN SAvéN rEfErS to IVA’s Innova-
tion for Growth project and points to a
number of opportunities for improved
growth. He also believes that a good
starting point is the Lisbon Agenda,
which, in his opinion, was established
largely to increase growth rates. Björn
identifies three main areas to focus on:
The first is creating the right condi-
tions so that new ideas can flourish
by supporting the segment of the
venture capital sector that focuses on
investment in new technology and to a
certain extent in smaller businesses.
The second is the need for deregula-
tion to promote start-ups. According
to Björn, each deregulation leads to an
opportunity for new enterprise.
“I believe we can trim more state
holdings in companies not involved
in public-sector activity to further
lower the national debt. Many of these
companies were in the alliance govern-
ment’s manifesto, but no parliamenta-
ry majority has been reached so far to
continue along that path,” says Björn.
The third area is a clearly-defined
tax code to ensure there is no doubt
about the public’s attitudes and legisla-
tion on things like interest deduction
and taxation of venture capital funds.
“I think we need a general overhaul
of and possibly an amendment or
removal of the so-called 3:12 rules,
which I believe are doing more harm
than good,” he says.
The 3:12 rules regulate the taxation
of closely held companies, often family
businesses, so that closely held com-
panies can take out larger dividends
for which the tax rate is significantly
lower than income tax.
All of these recipes could be applied in
varying degrees by most EU nations,
according to Björn, commenting that
Sweden’s challenges are less balance
sheet-oriented, i.e. debt reduction is
not as important as in many other EU
countries.
“Here it’s more important to speed
up growth, and for that I think we
need to find a path that makes it pos-
sible to introduce more competitive
pressure in Sweden’s public sector,”
he says.
In Björn Savén’s opinion, competi-
tion within the public sector needs to
be as tough as in the private sector in
order to improve productivity. Other-
wise it will be hard to have sufficient
funding for development and improv-
ing healthcare, schools and care, and
still have room for increased private
consumption. To guarantee good
quality in the future, it is important
to establish national, independ-
ent healthcare and school quality
oversight bodies with a bipartisan
composition, so that private players
can reliably prove they are providing
good quality.
Since 2003 Björn Savén has been a
member of IVA’s Economics division
and in 2011 he was elected as Vice
Chairman until 2013. Another impor-
tant IVA role was serving as a member
of the Investment Council from 2004
to 2010.
Björn Savén. Increased competition and clearer rules provide much-needed growthBjörn savén was the first to start a venture capital fund focusing on the nordic region and continental europe when he founded industri kapital, now ik investment partners, at the end of the 1980s. since 2003 Björn has been a member of iVa’s economics division and in 2011 he was elected as Vice chairman until 2013.
name: björn Savén
family: married, three grown children
education: mSc business & econo-mics. Stockholm School of economics ’72 mbA Harvard ’76
career: founder of enskilda Ventures limited 1989, which became Industri Kapital, now IK Invest-ment Partners. today björn is the chairman of IK Investment Partners ltd. before this he spent many years within the esselte group, including as divisional manager and finance director. björn has a Phd econ. h. c. from Stockholm School of economics and Swedish School of economics and business in Helsinki.
issue close to his heart at iva: new investment and restructuring for faster growth in industry and all sectors of society
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Annual Meeting. Royalty at IVA’s annual meetingThe annual Meeting of the academy was arranged for the 92nd time. in the stockholm concert hall the 700 or so festively attired guests listened to what iVa’s president Björn O. nilsson had to say on topics such as the possibilities of the life sciences and the technological advances of the past year. from the same stage the guests also heard from iVa’s chairman, lena Treschow Torell about the academy’s various activities. four people were presented with medals by his Majesty the king carl xVi gustaf. a banquet and dancing followed in stockholm city hall.
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58 | greaT gOld Medal
Every year IVA awards a number of
Gold Medals to highly deserving
individuals in the research or busi-
ness worlds. The highest honour,
the Great Gold Medal, was awarded for the
first time in 1924 to Johannes Ruths D.Eng.
for inventing the steam accumulator. In 2011
the Great Gold Medal went to Leif Johans-
son, Chairman of the Board of Ericsson and
former CEO of AB Volvo, who is also IVA’s new
Chairman.
Leif Johansson is one of Sweden’s most suc-
cessful business executives and one of the most
prominent figures in Swedish industry. This year
he was honoured with IVA’s highest distinction,
the Great Gold Medal, for “his extraordinary
achievements in developing and profiling great
Swedish companies such as Electrolux and
Volvo with technology and marketing as the
drivers for business in a global arena in the face
of very strong competition.”
“In my world IVA’s awards are among the
absolute finest ones you can receive. People
who have received Gold Medals over the years
make up quite an impressive group, so I only
hope I can slip in amongst them,” answers Leif
Johansson
LEif HAS BEEN involved with IVA since 1994
when he was elected as a member of the divi-
sion for enterprise and working life. Since that
time he has been very involved in various pro-
ject activities, including conducting a review
of the statutes during Chairman Stig Hag-
strömer’s tenure. From the beginning of 2012 it
is Leif’s turn to take on the role as Chairman.
“IVA to me is an organisation which, on intel-
lectual, sound and scientific foundations, both
shapes and participates in the public debate.
IVA also has a credibility and effectiveness that
I admire and want to be a part of,” he says,
emphasising that he sees the role as Chairman
as an important task and an honour.
Leif Johansson is looking forward to the
work ahead and says that he has always ap-
preciated the interface between academia,
industry and politics.
“Some people call me Leif-everything-is-
connected-Johansson because I usually give
speeches on the theme of everything being con-
nected. In Sweden for decades we have had this
idea that there should be watertight barriers
between the academic, political and business
worlds. People have even been sceptical when
anyone has suggested crossing these barriers.
I’ve wanted to do that all my life; I even think
that it’s natural to do that. If you want to cross
barriers – at least these three dimensions – the
role as Chairman of IVA is an excellent one to
have,” says Leif Johansson.
iN 2012 ivA will be focusing more on the great
global challenges. There are some important
areas that will affect IVA’s projects in one way
or another. One is the issue of energy.
“The questions surrounding energy and the
climate are linked and crucial because they es-
tablish boundary conditions. When I talk about
boundary conditions, I mean in a mathematical
sense. In other words, we need to start with the
boundaries of what we can achieve and in bet-
ween them, we can build,” says Leif Johansson.
He sees himself as a technology optimist
because his experience tells him it’s beneficial
to be that way.
“There are intellectually sound reasons for
being a technology optimist. Also, I should
add, it’s much more enjoyable to think in a
positive and constructive way. On the other
hand, I’m not a passive optimist; I see myself
instead as an activist-optimist. There are two
types of optimists: those who lean back and
say ’It will all work out.’ I’m not one of those. I
belong to those who say ’It will probably work
out if we do this or try that, and bring these
things together’,”
One issue that interests Leif Johansson and
that he worked with during his Volvo years,
but which is also important at Ericsson, is the
Great Gold Medal. To IVA’s new Chairman Leif Johansson
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In 2011 IVA’s Gold Medals went to indus-
trial heritage researcher Marie Nisser,
to visualisation pioneer Anders Ynner-
man and to Hans Wallstén, an inventor
whose inventions include the stent.
Professor emeritus Marie Nisser was
awarded IVA’s Gold Medal for “most outstand-
ing work in preserving, and in new contexts,
using milieus of great value from an industrial
history perspective, and for establishing indus-
trial heritage research as an academic discipline
in Sweden and internationally.”
In 1992 Marie Nisser was appointed
as the world’s first professor in industrial
heritage research – a research council chair
at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).
Nisser established an extensive research and
educational organisation and headed several
international collaborations and pioneering
research projects.
As Professor emeritus Marie Nisser passed
away on 10 August 2011, her Gold Medal
was awarded posthumously at the Annual
Meeting of the Academy on 28 October.
Another of the medallists, Professor An-
ders Ynnerman, created a top international
centre to combine basic research with profit-
able industrial applications. Visualisation
technology developed by Anders Ynnerman’s
team can be used in a number of areas –
from forensic autopsies to visualising a time
lapse in astrophysics, to air traffic decision
support.
Back in 2007 Anders Ynnerman received
IVA’s and Akzo Nobel’s Akzo Nobel Science
Award Sweden and at which time he provided
examples of some of the possibilities afforded
by the technology he had created. “Our
students have worked on numerous new films
in the adventure and fairy tale genres. These
growth of cities. How do we create a physical
infrastructure, a communication infrastructure
and an intellectual infrastructure so that cities
are good places for people to work and come to?
“There are lots of cities around the world that
will have populations in excess of 50 million.
These cities need urban planning to ensure they
become feasible environments for people. The
combination of technology, politics and urban
planning, as well as enterprise and an entrepre-
neurial spirit are all connected in a city,” he says.
tHE dEBAtE ABOut the need for planning for
the post-industrial society sometimes gives
Leif an allergic reaction. According to Leif,
we have the wrong idea that everything should
be handed over to low cost countries in Asia.
Instead we should steer the debate to discuss
how we can re-industrialise our society. And
linked to this is the question of how we can get
our young people interested in science, maths
and engineering. Leif was chairman of the
government-appointed Technology Delegation
which addressed issues like this one.
“When my generation of engineers retires
we will be replaced by a significantly smaller
generation and the percentage of that genera-
tion with degrees in engineering, maths and
sciences is too small. We will have a shortage
of engineers in the order of 350 to 400 thou-
sand or even close to a million in Europe if we
do nothing about it,” he says.
Leif believes that there are far too many fine
words being spoken about the development of
the knowledge society and far too few concrete
ideas and structures telling us how to achieve it.
“The main problem is not the low wages in
Asia. It’s that there are so many people there
and they are talented. We need to think about
how we can become at least as talented and
perhaps eventually, how we can open up. We
are facing a major challenge that I believe IVA
can address: we need immigration into Europe
of highly educated people who want to come
here to build their lives and contribute to the
success of Sweden and Europe, in the same way
as other nations have managed this. Perhaps
we could have a European Blue Card instead
of an American Green Card. There are lots
of aspects that are linked and that I believe
will be future challenges for Europe. This is
where I believe IVA can contribute to the public
debate,” concludes Leif Johansson.
Gold Medal. Anders Ynnerman
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films need the latest visualisation technology
and computer graphics to create the special
effects the film industry has made the public
accustomed to.”
A third Gold Medal went to Hans Wallstén,
inventor and serial entrepreneur. Among Wall-
stén’s inventions is the stent, or “Wallstent,”
used to open narrowings in the body, e.g. in
blood vessels, without open surgery.
In addition to the Wallstent, Hans Wallstén
invested in and led the commercialisation
process for the Billblade (a unique method
for coating paper), Duroblade (a method for
ceramic coating of cold-rolled steel strips to
reduce wear and tear in the paper and graphics
industries) and Cavaterm (to treat certain types
of haemorrhaging in women).
“Inventing something that is different and
better, combined with my broad interest in
research and new technology, has driven me all
my life,” says Wallstén, as an explanation of
why he has invented processes and products in
so many different areas.
Gold Medal. Marie Nisser
Gold Medal. Hans Wallstén
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2011 is the twentieth year that Stora Fonden
(The Big Fund) is supporting the National Mu-
seum of Science and Technology (Tekniska mu-
seet). The fund, which was created and is still
administered by IVA, has distributed a total of
SEK 100 million to the museum, enabling the
museum to renew its exhibitions and develop
its activities.
“Stora Fonden helped in the past with the
construction of Teknorama, the museum’s
science centre, which has been greatly appreci-
ated by hundreds of thousands of children and
adults over the years,” says Museum Director
Ann Follin. “The fund is making an important
contribution to the museum’s new science
centre planned for 2013/2014.”
“By supporting the museum, Stora Fonden
can actively help to promote interest among
children and young people in engineering and
natural sciences. We think that is money very
well invested,” says the fund’s chairman Jan
Moritz.
Rüdiger Lincke of Linneaus University was the
winner of the 2011 Chester Carlson Research
Award for his research in industrial informa-
tion systems. The Research Award, which is
administered by IVA, is awarded to individuals
in the field of information science. 2011 was
the twentieth year for the SEK 150,000 research
award.
Rüdiger Lincke was presented with the
award for developing methods and tools to
visualise the internal quality in industrial
information systems and making them compre-
hensible for non-experts as well. This enables
project managers and buyers to control and
assess the quality of software solutions.
Chester Carlson, who is of Swedish descent,
secured the patent for the first dry copying
process called the xerography method, the
basis for all modern copiers. He also founded
the Xerox company which funds the research
award through the Xerox Foundation’s Swed-
ish fund for information science research.
Sonya Kovalevsky was born in 1850 in Russia
but moved abroad to study mathematics be-
cause at the time women were not permitted to
study at Russian universities. In Berlin she met
her lifelong friend and mentor, Gösta Mittag-
Leffler, who managed to secure a chair for her
at the new university, Stockholms högskola.
This made Sonya Kovalevsky Sweden’s first
formal professor and the world’s first female
mathematics professor.
In 1888 she won the prestigious Prix Bordin
for her mathematics paper entitled Rotation of
a rigid body around a fixed point. She was also
an author of fiction. In 1887 she wrote a book
with Anne Charlotte Leffler, sister of Gösta
Mittag-Leffler, called The Struggle for Happi-
ness, and in 1889 her autobiographical novel
From a Russian Life: The Rayevski Sisters was
published. She died from complications follow-
ing pneumonia at just 41 years of age.
Ingegerd Palmér PhD presented the com-
memorative booklet at the Annual Meeting of
the Academy.
Awards, Scholarships & Distinctions. Support for research and science centre
Stora Fonden (The Big Fund). Long-term millions for the National Museum of Science and Technology
Chester Carlson Research Award. Award for visual and comprehensible information systems
In 2011 IVA distributed just over SEK 3 million from the Hans Werthén Foundation. 25 young academics received the scholarships for study or work abroad. The Hans Werthén Foundation was established in 1990 in honour of Hans Werthén, an engineer and business leader, chiefly for Ericsson and Electrolux.
2011 Commemorative Booklet. Sonya Kovalevsky
Hans Werthén Foundation. Scholarships 2011
IVA’s Conference Centre. Right in the heart of Stockholm
Year 2011 has been great year for IVA’s Conference
Centre with plenty of reservations and a strong
position in the day conference market. IVA’s strong
brand and the central location, as well as the Con-
ference Centre’s well-equipped rooms and professional staff are
behind our success.
The Rausing Room, one of our medium-sized conference
rooms, underwent a total renovation in 2011. The room has a
brand new interior and advanced but very user-friendly technol-
ogy. Presentations can now be held in two directions with a new
antiglare projector, the e-beam system that allows work on a
computer to go directly onto a digital whiteboard and a 55-inch
3D TV for the best possible picture. Both light and audio are
of the highest class and the entire system is controlled by very
simple and intuitive technology. The room can now hold up to
40 people depending on the furniture configuration.
In 2011 planning for a new Wallenberg Auditorium picked
up speed. Opened in 1983, the Wallenberg Auditorium has,
through its distinctive style, become one of Stockholm’s most
popular and well-attended auditoriums. It is now about to go
through a much needed and comprehensive process of renewal.
The Auditorium will be closed in June/July 2012 and re-opened
on 22 February 2013 on the 30th anniversary of its original
opening.
fACtS ABOut ivA’S CONfErENCE CENtrETen conference rooms for up to 175 guests. Four event spaces.
Food and beverages provided by Restaurant Grodan. Around
1,700 conferences and gatherings a year attended by some
35,000 guests. Awarded five crowns by Svenska Möten.
IVA’s Conference Centre. Right in the heart of Stockholm
professor lena Treschow Torell (div V), chair-man 2009–2011director general charlotte Brogren (div xi), Vice chairman 2009–2011president peter gudmundson, (div i), Vice chair-man 2009–2011professor staffan josephson, (div x), Vice chair-man 2010–2012Board chairman erik lautmann, (div Vi), chair-man Business executives council 2010–2012professor Björn O. nilsson (div x), president 2008 –2014Björn savén phd economics (div ix), Vice chair-man 2011–2013
tHE AdviSOry COuNCiL
The advisory council includes the chairman of the academy, the chairmen or vice chairmen of the academy’s divisions, chairmen of the regional chapters and the president. The executive com-mittee’s other members are entitled to be present at the advisory council’s meetings. The chairman of iVa’s Business executives council and commit-tees may also be called to the meetings.
professor lena Treschow Torell, chairman 2009–2011professor Björn O. nilsson, president 2008- 2014professor Margareta norell Bergendahl, chairman div. i, 2011Managing director Bo normark chairman div. ii 2010–2012research director kyösti Tuutti chairman div. iii 2010–2012Owe fredholm phd chairman div. iV 2011–2013county governor elisabeth nilsson chairman div. V 2011–2013director staffan håkansonchairman div. Vi 2010–2012general Manager Thomas laurell chairman div. Vii 2011–2013
director johan lindmanchairman div. Viii 2009–2011Board chairman gabriel Urwitz chairman div. ix 2010–2012consultant annika Åhnberg chairman div. x 2011–2013director general Madelene sandström chairman div. xi 2009–2011Vice president gösta lemnechairman div. xii 2011–2013director lennart fredenberg chairman iVa south 2011–2013anna nilsson-ehle phd chairman iVa west 2011–2013Msc eng and econ eva wigrenchairman industrial research committee 2011–2013ceO erik lautmannchairman Business executives council 2010–2012
MEMBErS
details about the academy’s members are included in the 2011 iVa register of members. as of 31 december 2011, iVa had 877 swedish members and 270 foreign members. Membership changes in 2011 are noted below.
Elected Swedish membersceO per grunewald div. iexecutive Vice president per hallberg div. icounty governor kristina alsér div. iprofessor erik dahlquist div. iiresearch director karl Bergman div. iiBank director, senior advisor peter nygårds div. iiiprofessor Mats andersson div. iVceO fredrik Tiberg div. iVTechnical director gert nilson div. VceO per storm div. Vprofessor gunilla Borgefors div. Viidirector research karin ljungström div. ViiceO yvonne Mårtensson div. Vii
professor Maria strömme div. ViiceO claes Thegerström div. Viipresident & ceO annika falkengren div. ixdirector Tomas nicolin div. ixceO anders nyrén div. ixexecutive Vice president anders ekblom div. xprofessor stefan ståhl div. xprofessor lars Börjesson div. xipresident & ceO Maria khorsand div. xiprofessor hans rosling div. xiceO Marin persson div. xiassociate professor carl johan sundberg div. xiVice president Ulf wahlberg div. xiiprofessor claes wohlin div. xii
Elected foreign membersdr kristjan haller, estoniaBoard chairman antti herlin, finlandchairman Tapani järvinen, finlanddeputy director general laure reinhart, francechairman louis schweitzer, franceMr. jean-pierre Birat, francedr. hans wijers, netherlandspresident herbert wirth, polandprovost Bertil andersson, singaporeprof. dr. dr.h.c.mult wolfgang herrman, germanydirector subra suresh, Usaprofessor Tryphon georgiou, Usa
deceased membersprofessor emeritus arne Bjerhammar Vii 1975professor emeritus Øyvind Bjørke foreign member 1984professor emeritus david dyrssen iV 1976professor emeritus john Olof edström V 1968professor gunnar gustafson iii 1999professor emeritus stig hagström ii 1983, xi 1992, honorary member 1999.professor emeritus Björn linn iii 1983, xi 1998lic eng einar Mattsson iV 1975lic eng Östen Mäkitalo ii 1993, xii 2007lic eng Bengt Oom iV 1971professor emeritus lennart philipson x 1977professor emeritus sven sahlin iii 1984
Mining engineer Boris serning V 1964professor emeritus nils starfelt Vii 1976professor lars sødahl foreign member 1984Msc engineering gunnar Tedestål ii 1986ph d Martin Tveit foreign member 1960professor emeritus Bertil Törnell iV 1981professor emeritus clas wahlbin Vi 1991professor douglas wahren Viii 1990Msc engineering Urban wehtje Viii 1969professor hans wilhelmsson Vii 1978lic eng hans wohlin iii 1986
ACAdEMy MEEtiNGS
23 Marchfollowing a welcome address by chairman lena Treschow Torell the akzonobel science award sweden (ansas) was awarded to professor jonas frisén for his pioneering and boundary-breaching work in regenerative medicine. jonas frisén is a professor of stem cell research at the department of cellular and Molecular Biology at the karolinska institute. he lectured under the heading new nerve cells in Old Brains. professor anders Blom, permanent member of the ansas jury and member of iVa’s div. i, presented the jury’s motivation and leif dar-mer, member of the executive management of akzonobel, netherlands, presented the award. Björn O. nilsson, iVa’s president, offered a few reflections and invited the participants to the dinner that followed.
15 Junejust over 200 guests gathered after the meeting for iVa’s summer get-together. in addition to members from iVa’s twelve divisions and members of the Business executives council, there were representatives from iVa’s associated organisations the industrial research committee, the student council, the swedish parliament and ministries etc.
IVA Documentation 2011. Elected members, seminars, events etc
The Advisory Council 2011.
The Executive Committee 2011.
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29 SeptemberThe theme for the seminar following the meeting was the government’s innovation policy bill 2012. state secretary catharina håkansson Boman from the Ministry of enterprise and state secretary peter honeth of the Ministry of educa-tion and research both participated. The panel discussion was opened with short addresses from göran sandberg, executive director of the knut and alice wallenberg foundation, Madelene sandström, ceO knowledge foundation, anders ekblom, head of science & Technology integra-tion Office, astra Zeneca and arne wittlöv, chairman agenda for research. The moderator was Björn O. nilsson.
17 NovemberThe seminar following the meeting with the theme “competence supply in a long perspective – roles and responsibilities of industry,” was arranged by iVa’s industrial research council (irc). after a welcome address by chairman lena Treschow Torell, eva wigren, head of engineering and environment at Teknikföretagen and chairman of irc opened the seminar. Other participants were ewa Beskow, director human relations nynas aB, ingrid petersson, director science relations astraZeneca, Maria nohlström, Vp doberman, Margareta krabbe, lecturer at Uppsala University and Margareta lantz, Manager corporate com-munications & investor relations axis com-munications aB. The moderator was per wiklund, nynas aB and member of irc. Björn O. nilsson offered some summarising comments.
diviSiON ACtivitiES
division i – Mechanical Engineeringchairman professor Margareta norell Bergen-dahl (2011)Vice chairman: Msc eng inken faber (2011–2013)Vice chairman: chief Technology Officer Ulf södergren (2010–2012)secretary: ingrid jansson
number of members as of 31 december 2011: 89 of whom 35 below the age of 65.
Meetings2 February: field trip to Visualisation centre c, norrköpingOpening speaker: professor anders ynnerman, linköping University, norrköping campus5 april: field trip to Bombardier aB, Västerås host: pro-rector henrik Tengstrand, linnaeus University
7 September : how is swedish research being positioned in the eU’s framework programmes?Opening speaker: Margareta norell Bergendahl, chairman, kTh, anders Blom, fOi, henrik runnemalm, Volvo aero, giovanni fili, nlab solar, hans hansson, swerea sicOMp
29 November : Va identifies future innovators at the dopexpo exhibition at kTh
division ii – Electrical Engineeringchairman: Managing director Bo normark (2010–2012)Vice chairman: professor lars nielsen (2010–2012)Vice chairman: gunnar holmberg phd eng (2010–2013)secretary: jan nordling
number of members as of 31 december 2011: 42 of whom 18 under the age of 65.
Meetings3 February: norra djurgårdsstaden – a new district of stockholm takes shapeOpening speaker: Bo normark, chairman iVa’s div. ii and ceO of powercircle, daniel carlsson-Mård, stockholm city, Mats nissling, ncc, sven-Åke eriksson, sl, per ling-Vannerus, ports of stockholm, Birgitta resvik and jenny dahlberg, fortum.
18 April: can the electricity market be more efficient?Opening speaker: Bo normark, chairman iVa’s div. ii and ceO of powercircle, Urban kärrmarck, swedish energy agency, niclas damsgaard, pöyry Management consulting, yvonne fredriksson, energy Markets inspector-ate, kjell jansson, swedenergy, Magnus hall, hol-men, per forsling, swedish property federation, state secretary daniel johansson, department of enterprise, participated with other speakers. Moderator: Bo normark
6 September : internal meeting
2 November : field trip to Ångström laboratory in UppsalaOpening speaker: professor Mats leijon, Uppsala University
division iii – Building and Constructionchairman: director kyösti Tuutti (2010–2012)Vice chairman: phd eng per-erik petersson (2011–2013)Vice chairman: professor georgia destouni (2010–2012)secretary: anna lindberg/staffan eriksson
number of members as of 31 december 2011: 72 of whom 48 under the age of 65.
Meetings8 February: The city in focus – strategies for sustainable urban planningOpening speaker: Moderator Örjan wikforss, professor kTh, stefan attefall, Minister for public administration and housing, kristina grange, phd eng kTh, head secretary city in focus, Ulrika francke, ceO Tyréns and Örjan wikforss, steering committee city in focus and commen-tators karolina keyzer, city architect, stockholm city and göran cars, professor kTh
12 April: internal meeting
7 September : The main challenges for the con-struction industry – competence liftOpening speaker: Mårten lindström, iVa’s div. iii, More10 aB, per-erik petersson, sp Technical research institute of sweden anna sander, iQ samhällsbyggnad, lars-erik liljelund, Mistra and chairman of formas, ruben aronsson, sBUf, development fund of the swedish construction industry, Tony andersson, imtech nordic and chairman of Bygginnovationen.
3 November : field trip to citybananOpening speaker: director kyösti Tuutti, chair-man div. iii, jan Molander, ncc
division iv – Chemical Engineeringchairman: Owe fredholm phd (2011–2013)Vice chairman: research director rolf anders-son (2010–2012) Vice chairman: professor anne-Marie hermans-son (2009–2011)secretary: Ted fjällman/janwestberg
number of members as of 31 december 2011: 63 of whom 27 under the age of 65.
Meetings22 February: The significance of new biobased materials and chemicals for the forest and chemicals industriesOpening speaker: Ola hildingsson, domsjö fabriker, hans norrström, nippe hylander, lars wågberg, wwsc, gisle lohr johansen, Borregaard (norway), Markku karlsson, UpM (finland), jon haag, Billerud, Tomas hjertberg, Borealis, claes annerstedt, Volvo cars, karin emilsson, södra, robert Onsander, kemiföreta-gen, stenungssund, Tom lindström, kTh, Björn O. nilsson, iVa and representatives from Vin-nova. (Organised in cooperation with div. V iii)
13 April: The importance of chemistry for batter-ies of the futureOpening speaker: dr helena Berg, Volvo, profes-sor kristina edström, Uppsala University, docent Torbjörn gustafsson, Uppsala University, dr annika ahlberg Tidblad, lutab, dr carl-johan rydh, eTc aB
8 September : chemistry – The limitless scienceOpening speaker: christina Moberg, kTh, div. iV 7 November : field trip to The nobel Museum in karlskogaOpening speaker: alf rosberg, hans johansson, henrik Östmark, Ulf sjöstrand, lennart johans-son, Ulf nordzell.
division v – Mining and Materialschairman: county governor elisabeth nilsson (2011–2013)Vice chairman: ceO göran carlsson (2009–2011)Vice chairman: jan Tengzelius phd eng (2011–2013)secretary: Ulla svantesson
number of members as of 31 december 2011: 65 of whom 23 under the age of 65.
Meetings16 February: Materials for future energy produc-tionOpening speaker: alan Begg, skf, jesper petters-son, hTc/chalmers, lars hultman, höganäs aB, iVa’s div. V, peter szakalos, kTh
13 April: The importance of chemistry for batter-ies of the futureOpening speaker: dr helena Berg, Volvo, profes-sor kristina edström, Uppsala University, docent Torbjörn gustafsson, Uppsala University, dr annika ahlberg Tidblad, lutab, dr carl-johan rydh, eTc aB.
13 September : Materials science and nanotechnol-ogy for functional materialsOpening speaker: professor lars hultman, ifM, linköping University, div. V, professor Magnus Berggren, iTn, linköping University
8 November : impervious materialsOpening speaker: sven Bengtsson, höganäs aB, anders eklund, aVUre aB, christer Åslund, Metec powder Metal aB, Olle wijk, sandvik aB.
division vi – Managementchairman: director staffan håkanson (2010–2012)Vice chairman: chairman anna ekström (2010–2012)Vice chairman: Vice-provost eric giertz (2010–2012)secretary: lotta Thörn
number of members as lf 31 december 2011: 117 if whom 37 under the age of 65.
Meetings15 February: The function of wage structuresOpening speaker: staffan håkanson, chairman div. Vi, juhana Vartiainen, national institute of economic research, göran Trogen, former ceO almega, eric giertz, kTh, Vice chairman div. Vi, håkan regnér, saco economist, sara göransson, psychologist. Moderator: anna ekström, chair-man saco, Vice chairman div. Vi.
14 April: future direction of the division – internal discussion.
21 September : incentive programmes and ceO compensationOpening speaker: Tomas nicolin, Börje ekholm, investor, hans de geer, stockholm school of economics. Moderator gabriel Urwitz (arranged in cooperation with div. ix).
24 November : The sustainable company – is csr profitableOpening speaker: Benoit la salle, president and ceO semafo, canadian mining company active in west africa, lars-eric aaro, ceO lkaB, klas Balkow, ceO clas Ohlson, steve howard, chief sustainability Officer ikea group, anna gustafsson, responsible for the Business sector and human rights, amnesty international, håkan wirtén, secretary general wwf sweden, erik lautmann, chairman of iVa’s Business executives council. (arranged in cooperation with the Busi-ness executives council)
division vii – Basic and interdisciplinary Engineering Scienceschairman: professor Thomas laurell (2010–2013)Vice chairman: professor ewert Bengtsson (2010–2012)Vice chairman: generaldirektör Marianne Treschow (2010–2011)secretary: johan persson
number of members as of 31 december 2011: 87 of whom 33 under the age of 65.
Meetings17 February: handling spent nuclear fuelOpening speaker: claes Thegerström, ceO skB swedish nuclear fuel and waste Manage-ment co, Olle Olsson, head of the nuclear fuel project at skB swedish nuclear fuel and waste Management co, waclaw gudowski, professor, international Technology centre, Moscow, hans forsström, for director of fuel cycle and waste at iaea, now skB international and sven Ove hansson, philosophy professor, kTh.
26 April: what is technology general knowledge?Opening speaker: göran grimvall, kTh, Ulrika Björkstén, Vetenskapsradion (science radio), Åke ingerman, gothenburg University, judith Melin, swedish coast guard, gunnar edwall, formerly with ericsson research
15 September : Thermoelectrics for future energy managementOpening speaker: sven lidin, professor of inorganic chemistry at lund University, heiner linke, professor of nanophysics and deputy director of nanometer structure consortium at lund University, anders palmqvist, professor of materials chemistry, chalmers University of Technology, dr. elis carlström, department Manager Materials applications, swerea iVf, associate professor Muhammet Toprak, division of functional Materials, kTh and associate professor xavier crispin, Organic electronics, linköping University.
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15 November: The ocean circulation and the arctic ice capOpening speaker: jonas nycander, stockholm Uni-versity, johan nilsson, stockholm University, göran Björk, University of gothenburg, Martin jakobsson, stockholm University.
division viii – forest technologychairman: director johan lindman (2009–2011)Vice chairman: professor carl-johan johansson (2010–2012)Vice chairman: director stina Blombäck (2011–2013)secretary: Magnus Breidne
number of members as of 31 december 2011: 51 of whom 23 under the age of 65.
Meetings22 February: The significance of new biobased materials and chemicals for the forest and chemicals industriesOpening speaker: Ola hildingsson, domsjö fabriker, hans norrström, nippe hylander, lars wågberg, wwsc, gisle lohr johansen, Borregaard (norway), Markku karlsson, UpM (finland), jon haag, Billerud, Tomas hjertberg, Borealis, claes annerstedt, Volvo cars, karin emilsson, södra, robert Onsander, kemiföretagen, stenungssund, Tom lindström, kTh, Björn O. nilsson, iVa and representatives from Vinnova. (Organised in cooperation with div. iV)
14 April: new products from the forest: Timber, pulpwood, fuel wood and porridge – is there anything else?Opening speaker: Moderator: johan lindman, ceO stora enso skog, chairman div. Viii, Magnus Brei-dne, iVa, Åke Barklund, royal swedish academy of agriculture and forestry (ksla), Magnus wålinder, ecoBuild, sp Trätek/kTh, kristina wickholm, innventia, Ola hildingsson, domsjö fabriker, lars wågberg, kTh.
20 September: internal meeting.
16 November: internal meeting.
division iX – Economicschairman: Board chairman gabriel Urwitz (2010–2012)Vice chairman: director peggy Bruzelius (2009–2011)Vice chairman: professor Magnus henrekson (2009–2011)secretary: hampus lindh
number of members as of 31 december 2011: 94 of whom 37 under the age of 65.
Meetings21 February: The deindustrialisation of sweden: Myth or reality?Opening speaker: daniel lind, Unionen, lena hag-man, almega and henrik jordahl, research institute of industrial economics, ifn. 27 April: The declining significance of the swedish stock exchange for the swedish economy: what can be done?Opening speaker: Magnus henrekson, research institute of industrial economics, ifn, Ulf jakobs-son, ifn. Opponents: ramsay Brufer, alecta and kerstin hermansson, swedish securities dealers association
21 September: incentive programmes and ceO compensationOpening speaker: Tomas nicolin, Börje ekholm,
investor, hans de geer, stockholm school of economics. Moderator gabriel Urwitz (arranged in cooperation with div. Vi. ix organiser)
15 November : how shall we solve the european debt crisis?Opening speaker: harry flam, department of international economics, stockholm University, Bo lundgren, director general swedish national debt Office
division X – Biotechnologychairman: consultant annika Åhnberg (2011–2013)Vice chairman: docent Maris hartmanis (2010–2012)Vice chairman: director general inger andersson (2011–2013)secretary: arvid söderhäll
number of members as of 31 december 2011: 62 of whom 29 under the age of 65.
Meetings1 February: cancer – problem area in pharmaceu-tical developmentOpening speaker: kjell strandberg, Mef nilbert, lund University and skåne University hospital, carl Borrebaeck, creaTe health Translational cancer center, lund University, peter nygren, Uppsala University and academic hospital, Mona ridderheim, skåne University hospital, Modera-tors: carl Borrebaeck and peter nygren
28 April: genetic engineering on our plate – obsta-cles and opportunitiesOpening speaker: annika Åhnberg, chairman iVa’s div. x, jens sundström, swedish University of engineering sciences, Uppsala, ivar Virgin, stockholm environment institute, sten stymne, swedish University of engineering sciences, alnarp. prepared comments by Bo gertsson, lantmännen seed and peter sylwan
19 September : why and where? strategy meeting and discussion Opening speaker: Björn O. nilsson, president iVa, svante svensson, Orkla asa, Ulf lundqvist, an-nika Åhnberg, Tankeföda aB, chairman div. x
14 November : clinical pharmaceutical develop-mentOpening speaker: internal workshop
division Xi – Education and research Policychairman: director general Madelene sandström (2009–2011)Vice chairman: University president Thomas andersson (2009–2011)Vice chairman: head of research and statistics Ola asplund (2011–2013)secretary: Bengt a Mölleryd
number of meetings as of 31 december 2011: 76 of whom 30 under the age of 65.
Meetings22 February: areas to focus on – strategic research in sweden.Opening speaker: peter honeth, Ministry of energy and research, Maria dahl Torgerson, Vinnova, pam fredman, gothenburg University, Åke svensson, Teknikföretagen, göran sandberg, kaw foundation, johan carlstedt, innovation for growth.
6 April: with an eye to the 2012 research and innovation policy Bill
Opening speaker: Ola asplund if-Metall, jenni nordborg VinnOVa, hans hentzell member div. xi, lennart Ohlsson member div. xi, arne wittlöv steering group chairman agenda for research, member div. i.
5 September : advanced education and compe-tence supply in the knowledge society Opening speaker: University chancellor lars haikola, Tobias krantz, confederation of swedish enterprise, eva wigren, Teknikföretagen, Teresa jonek, almega, Ursula hass, Blekinge institute of Technology, sven engström, chalmers University of Technology and members of iVa’s student council.
30 November : research funding in the casting ladle – the importance of qualityOpening speaker: anders flodström.
division Xii – information technologychairman: Vice president gösta lemne (2011–2013)Vice chairman: professor kristina höök (2011–2013)Vice chairman: professor erik hagersten (2009–2011)secretary: Marie Owe
number of members as of 31 december 2011: 59 of whom 28 under the age of 65.
Meetings24 February: internal meeting with programme itemsOpening speaker: christer Bengtsson, swedsoft
13 April: internal meeting
6 September : Mobile health – care and wellbeing in a wired societyOpening speaker: gösta lemne, chairman div. xii, sture hägglund, programme Manager div. xii, daniel forslund, strategist ehälsa, Vinnova (for-merly Ministry of health and social affairs), nina lundberg, stockholm county council, peter hå-kansson, ericsson research, Ulf palmgren, swedish association of local authorities and regions
15 November : internal meeting
ivA West chairman: anna nilsson-ehle phd eng h. c. (div. Vi) 2011–2013Vice chairman: svante svensson phd eng (div. x) 2010–2011Vice chairman: anders Brännström phd eng (div. Vi) 2010–2011professor Bo egardt (div. ii) 2009–2011rolf andersson phd, associate professor (div. iV) 2011–2013lennart Olausson, Business executives council member 2009–2011Malin persson, Business executives council member 2011–2013håkan simonsen, Business executives council adj. member 2011secretary: linda Vidén ljungars, iVa
Meetings/field trips 7 February: Technology delegation – Turning point sweden
22 March: stem cells in clinical applications – advantage gothenburg
23 March (via link): new nerve cells in old brains. academy Meeting and presentation of the akzo-nobel science award sweden
13 April: The importance of chemistry for batteries of the future
4 May: from crisis to new opportunities – china, our challenge20 September : chemistry shaping our future daily life
29 September (via link): The government’s re-search and innovation policy bill 2012 – academy Meeting
4 October : electricity supply – which energy sources can replace nuclear power?
11 October : sustainable chemistry 2030
13–14 October : jsps sweden-japan joint collo-quium: nuclear energy and nuclear applications
15 November : Business executives council break-fast with Olof persson17 November (via link): competence supply in a long perspective – roles and responsibilities of industry. academy Meeting
5 December : annual Meeting and Technology evening
ivA Southchairman: director lennart fredenberg (div. i) 2011–2013Vice chairman: senior advisor claes-göran Beckeman (div. x), 2011–2013Vice chairman: executive Vice president cristina glad (div. xi) 2009–2011
Meetings/field trips:9 February: field trip to Välinge innovation aB. participants: darko pervan, ceO, niclas håkans-son, dir. r&d surface Technology, per nygren, dir. fold down system and svante Bernow, communications Manager.
12 May: Transport 2030 – presentation of the iVa project. participants: jonas sundberg, project director and stefan gustafsson, regional Man-ager sweco infrastructure.
18 August: Breakfast meeting at procordia food aB – arranged in cooperation with iVa’s Busi-ness executives council and iVa south. partici-pants: eystein Mitsem, production director and göran sajland, Quality Manager.
20 September : Mobile phone development in lund – who is doing what and what is in the pipeline? seminar at sTericsson. participants: joakim nelsson, head of industry collaboration and asset Management, sony ericsson, Björn ekelund, head of ecosystems and research, sTericsson sven Mattisson, senior expert ericsson.
11 October : development and challenges in the broadband industry with per Ödling, secretary to the academy, iVa.
6 December : annual Meeting with iVa south
6 December : Technology evening with iVa south with Björn O. nilsson (div. x), president iVa.
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BuSiNESS EXECutivES COuNCiL
chairman: director erik lautmann (div. Vi) (2010–2012)Vice chairman: Board member Marie ehrling, nordea etc. (div. Vi) (2009–2011)Vice chairman. Bank director peter nygårds, swedbank, (2010–2012)ceO pia sandvik-wiklund, länsförsäkringar jämtland (2010–2012)director kjell johansson, aB recipharm (2010–2011)chairman of the Board peter wallenberg, faM – foundation asset Management (2011–2013)ceO lars-eric aaro, lkaB (2011–2013)ceO Åke svensson, Teknikföretagen (2010–2012)senior partner annette Brodin rampe, Brunswick group (2011–2013)
number of members and contact personsat the end of 2011 the Business executives council consisted of 190 enterprises, national government agencies and organisations that carry out, utilise or fund technical research and development. These were represented by194 members, 85 alternates and 254 contact persons.
Business Executives Council’s Annual Meeting on 24 November 2011The sustainable company – is csr profitable?Opening speaker: erik lautmann, chairman of iVa’s Business executives councilinternational expertise human advocacy Benoit la salle, president and ceO semafo, a canadian mining company active in west africa.commentanders furbeck, director Urban Transforma-tion, lkaBThe csr agenda of two swedish companies klas Balkow, ceO clas Ohlson steve howard, chief sustainability Officer ikea groupwhat is of most importance of the companies’ engagement in csr?anna gustafsson, responsible for the Business sector and human rights, amnesty internationalhåkan wirtén, secretary general wwf sweden
Business Executives Council Breakfast Meetings 20114 February: carl-henric svanberg, Bp17 February: håkan Buskhe, saab23 March: Öystein löseth, Vattenfall13 April: anders nyrén, industrivärden13 April: samarkand (ludvika)29 September : annika falkengren, seB12 October, ronnie leten, atlas copco15 November, Olof persson, Volvo aB (gothen-burg)18 November : keith Mcloughlin, electrolux1 December : lars-eric aaro, lkaB (luleå)8 December : rickard gustafson, sas
iNduStriAL rESEArCH COMMittEE, ifG
iVa’s industrial research committee (ifg) builds networks between young decision-makers in industry and research in the academic world. The irc has fifteen members each with a three-year mandate. The irc alumni network has around one hundred former members.
delegates on the Committee’s trip to San francisco 15–22 October 2011
chairman Msc engineering, Msc econ head of engineering and environment Member of
iVa’s div. i Mechanical engineering eva wigren, Teknikföretagenassociate professor, phd eng, Technology area leader alf andersson, Volvo cars aBassociate professor, Business area directorpatrik andreasson, Vattenfall research & develop-ment aBMsc engineering, MBa, ceO ruben aronsson, sBUfphd econ niclas damsgaard, sweco energuide aBMsc engineering, head of product Management pia falk, saab electronic defence systemsphd engineering Torbjörn keisu, ericsson aBphd engineering, research engineer anna körner, sca global hygiene categoryphd engineering, researcher, product managerMikael larsson, swerea MefOs aBphd engineering, head of r&d, innovation jan lif, stora enso packagingMd, associate professor, professor, Vice president johan lund, astraZeneca r&dMsc engineering, deputy assistant undersecretary sofia Medin, Ministry of enterprise, energy and communicationspartner, Msc. engineering daniel ringheim, Merinigh aBMsc engineering, MBa, head of strategy, service and education johan Tiberg, Bombardier Trans-portationphd, portfolio owner protein analysis susanne wal-lenborg, ge healthcare life sciencesphd eng, technical coordinator per wiklund, nynas aBdivision Manager for working life development, phd annika Zika-Viktorsson, Vinnova (agency for innovation systems)
irC Secretaryingrid janssson, iVa
Places visitedMumm napa, rutherfordexport council in san francisco - swedish Trade council sfMeeting with consul general Barbro OsherVMware incparsons BrinkerhoffBombardierBechtellockheed Martin, san joseUniversity of california, Berkeleystanford University, stanford, cachevron headquarters, san ramongoogle incericsson inc.
OtHEr ACtivitiES
12 January Transport 2030 – proposal for a forum for strategic development in the transport sectorspeakers: Ulrika francke, Tyréns aB, Torbjörn suneson, swedish Transport administration, Ove pettersson, Vinnova, lars-göran rosengren, Volvo Technology aB, annika stensson-Trigell, kTh, jan nylander, Transport research commission
18 Januaryesbri arrangement: intellectual assess –¬ how to build a company in a knowledge-based economyspeaker: professor Ulf petrusson, school of Busi-ness, economics and law at gothenburg University
2 Februaryconcluding seminar: Transport systems for sustain-able development and competitivenessspeaker: Björn O nilsson, president iVa, jonas sundberg, project director, arne kaijser, kTh,
samuel henningsson, netport karlshamn, Ove pettersson, Vinnova / agneta wargsjö, swedish Transport administration, Ulrika francke, Tyréns aB, steering committee chairman, staffan hå-kanson, steering committee member, Transport 2030, chairman iVa’s div. Vi, Ulrika francke, steering committee chairman Transport 2030, Marina fransson, Ministry of enterprise, energy and communication, Transport section.
7 FebruaryTechnology delegation – Turning point sweden. presentation of the Technology delegation’s re-port for iVa west which also assembled some of west sweden’s key players to join the delegation chairman in highlighting challenges and options for action.
14 Februarya stronger service sector – consequences for industry, leadership and politicsspeaker: catharina håkansson Boman, state secretary Ministry of enterprise, energy and com-munications, eva gidlöf, executive Vice president scandinavia, Tieto, Thomas Berglund, ceO capio, Magnus henrekson, ceO research institute of industrial economics, Michael wolf, president and ceO swedbank, Mats Tystrup, postgraduate student at stockholm school of economics.
22 Februaryinnovate or stagnate - how do we promote, incentivize and reward innovation? The swedish innovation climate in a global context. iVa and ge arranged a seminar with invited guests to discuss the innovation climate in sweden. speakers: Björn O. nilsson, president iVa, anders nyberg, political expert, Ministry of enterprise, energy and communications antoine harary director strat-egyOne, Magnus Breidne, iVa, panel debate with representatives from iVa, the swedish energy agency, Volvo, ge, and climatewell
24 February how can more efficient public management contribute to a better innovation climate?Breakfast meeting with innovation for growthspeakers: christina lugnet, director general Tillväxtverket, kristina alsér, county governor kronoberg county, göran arvidsson associate professor, yvonne gustafsson, swedish agency for public Management, Måns collin, iVa’s div. iV chemical engineering, petter hallman, Mckinsey & company
17 Marchgrowth days in gothenburginnovation for growth participated in a debate on: innovation policy that leads to innovation that leads to new jobs, with sven-Otto littorin and others.
21 Marchdialogue for strong innovative powerworkshop with innovation for growth and reglabparticipants: kristina alsér, county governor kronoberg county, chairman for regional dialogue, Mats granér, chairman reglab, antti Valle, head of division, innovation department, finnish Ministry of employment and the economy, Vesa kojola, head of unit, centre for economic development, Transport and environment, Tekes, finland, Thomas alslev christensen, head of divi-sion for innovation policy, research and innovation Board, denmark, Bent Mikkelsen, head of division Business and competence development regional development, region Midtjylland, denmark. Moderator: peter kempinsky, kontig.
22 Marchhow can we increase innovative capacity in swedish research?iVa’s president Björn O. nilsson participated in a seminar arranged by VinnOVa and at luleå University of Technology.speakers: hasse johansson, chairman VinnOVa, Björn O. nilsson, president iVa, ann-Marie hermansson, Vice president chalmers University of Technology, Ulf lindberg, Vd enhancer, kajsa Björn, epsilon formerly fastelaboratoriet at luleå Univer-sity of Technology, Magnus karlberg, fastelaborato-riet vid luleå University of Technologyjennie nordborg, VinnOVa
23 Marchnew nerve cells in old brains. academy Meeting and presentation of the akzonobel science award swedenspeakers: professor lena Treschow Torell, chair-man iVa, professor anders ynnerman, chairman of the jury, leif darner, member of executive manage-ment, akzonobel, amsterdam, netherlands, pro-fessor jonas frisén, karolinska institute department of cellular and Molecular Biologyprofessor Björn O. nilsson, president iVa.
30 Marchclimate change and economic growthspeakers: economics professors john hassler, per krusell and Torsten persson
14 Aprilnew products from the forestseminar arranged by ksla and iVaspeakers: Magnus Breidne, project Manager, iVa, Åke Barklund, president, royal swedish academy of agriculture and forestry (ksla), Magnus wålinder, centre manager ecoBuild, sp Trätek/kT, kristina wickholm, research manager, innventia, Ola hildingsson, Vd, domsjö fabriker,lars wågberg, professor, kTh. Moderator: johan lindman, ceO, stora enso skog
15 Aprilpriorities in the innovation system - necessary? how? By who?Breakfast meeting with innovation for growthspeakers: Björn O. nilsson, president iVa, Ola asplund, if Metall, Maria dahl-Torgersson, VinnO-Va, Ulla-Britt fräjdin hellqvist, fräjdin & hellqvist aB, håkan gergils, iVa, göran sandberg, knut and alice wallenberg foundation, sverker sörlin, kTh, Ted fjällman, iVa
9 MayThe nuclear accident in fukushimaspeakers: Björn O. nilsson, president iVa, dr. Thomas linnemann, Technical advisor at VgB powerTech’s nuclear power plants competence centre, ryuma Ohora, first secretary, science attache, embassy of japan in stockholm, lennart carlsson, director of nuclear power plant safety, swedish radiation safety authority, per lindell, senior advisor, e.On, Magnus reinsjö, head of systems intelligence, production nuclear Vattenfall aB. Moderator: lars gunnar larsson, sip nuclear consulting.
18 Maycompetence supply for innovation and growthBreakfast meeting with innovation for growthspeakers: annika lundius, leona achtenhagen, jönköping international Business school, frida andersson, Tillväxtverket, johan Blom, swedish national agency for higher Vocational educa-tion, svante Bylund, if Metall, stefan Bengtsson, chalmers University of Technology, eva-lisa höglund, arbetsförmedlingen, nils karlson, ratio,
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håkan larsson, astraZeneca, Thomas Malmer, naturvetarna
8 Juneprivatisation of the welfare sector – threats and opportunities. annual meeting and seminar with the service initiative.speaker: Marie ehrling, service initiative chairman, henrik jordahl, researcher at the research institute of industrial economics (ifn), eric giertz, Vice chancellor kTh
4 Julyinnovation for the future iinnovation for growth arranged a seminar during the almedal week.speakers: cecilia schelin seidegård, county gover-nor gotland , Björn O. nilsson, president iVa, johan carlstedt, project director innovation for growth susanne Ås sivborg, dg prV, Åke svensson, ceO Teknikföretagen, pontus Braunerhjelm, professor kTh, christina lugnet, director gen-eral Tillväxtverket, charlotte Brogren, director general Vinnova, kristina alsér, county governor kronoberg, cecilia schelin seidegård, county governor gotland
5 JulyThe road to sustainable mobilityTransport 2030 arranged a seminar during the almedal week.speakers: charlotte Brogren, director general VinnOVa, Urban karlström, deputy governor region skåne, pia kunhult, deputy governor region skåne, Mikael stöhr, ceO green cargo, jan-eric sundgren, director aB Volvo, gunnar Malm, director general Trafikverket, jonas sundberg, project director Transport 2030, Björn O. nilsson, president iVa. Moderator: sharon jåma
6 Julyinnovation for the future iiinnovation for growth arranged a seminar during the almedal week.speakers: johan carlstedt, project director in-novation for growth, iVa, henrik arwidsson, Ung innovationskraft – an advisory board within Vin-nOVa and Tillväxtverket, charlie hansson, ceO chas, christina lampe-Önnerud, ceO Boston power, Oscar lundin, Ung Omsorg, erik Begtzboe, chairman Moderate party youth league, rebecka carlsson, spokesperson green party youth league, aron Modig, chairman christian democratic party youth league, linda nordlund, first Vice chairman liberal party youth league, representatives from the centre party youth league, social democratic party youth league and left party youth league. Moderator: sharon jåma
26 Septemberinternet of Things (ioT) – from commercial benefits to sensorsspeakers: Magnus Breidne, project Manager iVa, Östen frånberg, project Manager iVa, anders Oe johansson, processiT innovations lTU, Åke kru-ukka, Manager new Technologies lkaB, Markus Bylund, phd sics, Bo normark, ceO powercircle, Mikael gidlund, aBB corporate research area co-ordinator, per-Åke Olsson, Vd Viktoria institutet, Bo raattamaa, ceO gs1, christer norström, Vd sics, Mattias O´nils, professor Mid sweden Uni-versity, per gunningberg, professor Uppsala Univer-sity, andreas hessler, program director, ericsson, hans dahlberg, Business development Teliasonera, adam dunkels, phd senior scientist sics
3 Octoberstronger research for stronger schoolsseminar with iVa’s agenda for research project
speakers: erland hjelmquist, steering committee member agenda for research and head secretary fas, gunnar svedberg, steering committee member agenda for research and former ceO innventia, Tomas kroksmark, professor in peda-gogic work, jönköping University, anna ekström, director general swedish national agency for education, Bertil Östberg, state secretary Ministry of education and research, Tomas kroksmark, professor in pedagogic work, jönköping University, anna ekström, director general swedish national agency for education, Bertil Östberg, state sec-retary Ministry for education and research, peter fredriksson, professor in economics, stockholm University, per-arne andersson, head of education and labour Market division, swedish association of local authorities and regions. Moderator: johannes hylander
10 Octoberhanding over of innovation plan swedenconcluding seminar for iVa’s innovation for growth projectspeakers: lena Treschow Torell, chairman iVa, Björn O. nilsson, president iVa, Marcus wal-lenberg, chairman seB, chairman innovation for growth johan carlstedt, project director innovation for growth ilija Bataljan, dombron aB, angeles Bermudez-svankvist, arbetsförmedlingen, pontus Braunerhjelm, swedish entrepreneurship forum, lisa lindström, doberman, Åke svensson, Teknikföretagen, annie lööf, Minister for enter-prise. Moderator: sharon jåma
18 OctoberMentor4research concluding conference speakers: Björn O. nilsson, president iVa, nils-robert persson, entrepreneur, anders gezelius, national project Manager Mentor4research. Moderator: henrik frenkel
27 Octoberinnovation for growth - successful international innovation practicesiVa’s royal Technology forum 2011speakers: annika rembe, director general si, Björn O. nilsson, president iVa, professor christian ketels, principal associate, institute for strategy and competitiveness, harvard Business school, Usa, professor xUe lan, dean of school of public policy and Management, Tsinghua Univer-sity, china, Ms. laure reinhart, deputy general Manager innovation and Technology, OseO, france, dr subra suresh, director, national science foundation, Mr. siimon Vaske, Technology Transfer Manager, kTh innovation, kTh – royal institute of Technology, erik Odén, ceO Mantex aB. Moderator: dr Magnus Breidne, executive director of projects, iVa
16 Novemberchester carlson research awardxerox presented the chester carlson research award established in 1985 and administered by iVa.speakers: johannes karlsson, conducting postgradu-ate research at Umeå University, rüdiger lincke, conducting postgraduate research at linnaeus University, lena-Maria Öberg, conducting post-graduate research at Mid sweden University, Björn O. nilsson, president iVa
30 NovemberUniversities with or without research connection?Breakfast seminar with iVa’s agenda for research projectspeakers: lars anell, steering committee member agenda for research, anders Broström, chairman swedish research council and project Manager agenda for research, lars haikola, University
chancellor swedish national agency for higher education, helen dannetun, president linköping University. Moderator: joakim rådström, iVa
12 Decembersee Ongame! field trip with iVa’s service initiativespeaker: peter Bertilsson, ceO Ongame
14 Decembernew innovation strategy and new initiatives for norrbotten – seminar arranged jointly by iVa, lkaB and luleå University of Technologyspeakers: per Ödling, secretary to the academy iVa, lars-eric aaro, president and ceO lkaB, lena liljebäck, follow-up manager, arbetsförm-edlingen, johan sterte, president luleå University of Technology, anders granberg, north sweden data center location, johan carlstedt, project Manager iVa, staffan Bjurulf, region Värmland, sara Modig, Ministry of enterprise, energy and communica-tions. Moderator: håkan alfon, framtidslyftet
StEEriNG COMMittEES fOr ivA PrOJECtS
research Agendachairman: arne wittlöv phd h.c. (div. i) lars anell, chairman swedish research councilrolf annerberg, director general formascharlotte Brogren, director general VinnOVa (div. xi)professor erland hjelmquist, fashasse johansson, M.sc. formerly scania (div. i)lars-erik liljelund, ceO Mistrakarin Markides, president chalmers University of Technology (div. iV)Björn O. nilsson, president iVa (div. x)lars rask, executive director ssfMadelene sandström, ceO knowledge foundation (div. xi)gunnar svedberg, president innventia aB (div. iV)daniel Tarschys, chairman riksbankens jubile-umsfondproject Managers; elin Vinger, iVa anders Broström phd eng, iVa
Mentor4research (Project Group)chairman: rolf skoglund (div. xii) johan ahlström, regional project ManagerMats espander, regional project Managerjan-erik gustavsson, regional project Manageranders nordström, regional project ManagerBjörn sjöholm, regional project ManagerMagnus Breidne, project Manager iVakirsti häcki, project assistant iVa project Manager: anders gezelius, strategize
NtA – Science and technology for Allpresident Björn O. nilsson, iVa (div. x)education director annabella kraft, södertälje Municipalityprofessor sven-Olof holmgren, kVa/nTa developmentprofessor Ulf lindahl, Uppsala University, kVagillis persson, nTa production and service
innovation for Growthchairman: chairman of the Board, Marcus wal-lenberg, chairman seB county governor kristina alsér, jönköping countychairman of the Board lars Backsell, recipharm (div. x)professor pontus Braunerhjelm, swedish entrepre-neurship forum (div. xi)director general charlotte Brogren, VinnOVa (div. xi)executive Vice president anders ekblom, astra-Zeneca
ceO johan hernmarck, provider Venture partnersdirector general christina lugnet, swedish agency for economic and regional growthexecutive Vice president annika lundius, confed-eration of swedish enterprisechairman stefan löfven, if Metallpresident Björn O. nilsson, iVa (div. x)executive director göran sandberg, knut and alice wallenberg foundation (div. Viii)chairman of the Board Melker schörling, Melker schörling project Manager: johan carlstedt, iVa
transport 2030chairman: ceO Ulrika francke, Tyréns aB (div. iii)county governor Minoo akhtarzand, county administrative Board jönköping countydirector general charlotte Brogren, VinnOVastaffan håkanson, swedtrain (div. Vi)chairman of the Board håkan larsson, schenker aBceO erik lautmann, jetpak group (div. Vi)director dan lundvall, lfVceO kent eric lång, Mecel aBproject Manager Thomas Malmer, iVaceO Åke niklasson, Volvo logistics aBlars-göran rosengren phd eng, aB Volvo (div. xi)ceO elisabet salander Björklund, Bergvik skog (div.Viii)senior Vice president lars stenqvist, scania cV aBstrategy director Torbjörn suneson, swedish road administrationproject Manager: jonas sundberg, sweco
Energy Book/Aspects of Energyprofessor Bengt kasemo, div. ii head of development gerd Bergman, nTa professor eric giertz, div. Vi project Manager dick hedberg, energy commit-tee, kVa director christer sjölin, div. iVprofessor harry frank, div. ii project Managers elin Vinger and anna lindberg
diStiNCtiONS, SCHOLArSHiPS ANd AWArdS
Great Gold Medaldirector leif johansson was awarded iVa’s great gold Medal in 2001 for his extraordinary achieve-ments in developing and profiling great swedish companies such as electrolux and Volvo with tech-nology and marketing as the drivers for business in a global arena in the face of very strong competition.
Gold Medals 2011professor emeritus Marie nisser for most outstanding achievement in preserving, and in new contexts, using milieus of great value from an industrial history perspective, and for establishing industrial heritage research as an aca-demic discipline in sweden and internationally.
hans wallstén phd eng h.c.for outstanding achievement as an inventor and entrepreneur. hans wallstén identified the need for new development in many different areas and turned his own ideas into finished products that have been of great significance to both society and individuals.
professor anders ynnerman for boundary-breaching achievement in visualisation and physical simulation for computer graphics and for innovative leadership.
the 2011 Commemorative Booklet hon-oured Sofia Kovalevskaja (1850–1891) sofia kovalevskaja was honoured in the
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2011 commemorative Booklet for her great significance in the field of mathematics – the foundation for all engineering. despite strong opposition from the academic world of the day, she managed to become sweden’s first female professor and the world’s first professor of mathematics.author: ingegerd palmér.
AkzoNobel Science Award SwedenTo encourage and reward boundary-breaching research, iVa presented for the seventh time an award based on a donation from akzo nobel. The award was presented at iVa’s annual Meet-ing on 23 March.
The 2011 winner is professor jonas frisén who received the award for pioneering and bound-ary-breaching work in regenerative medicine. jonas frisén is a professor of stem cell research at the department of cellular and Molecular Biology at the karolinska institute.
Chester Carlson research AwardThe chester carlson research award 2011 went to rüdiger lincke of linnaeus University. rüdiger lincke received the award for his research in the field of industrial information systems.
The award was established in 1985 in memory of chester carlson who is of swedish descent and invented the copying machine. The winner is chosen jointly by xerox and iVa.
Stockholm industry Water Award The 2011 stockholm industry water award went to nestlé. The company was chosen to receive the stockholm industry water award for its efforts to improve water management in both the company’s internal activity and throughout the logistics chain.
The award goes to an enterprise that contributes to sustainable water management by reducing consumption and environmental impact. The award was established in 2000 by the stockholm water foundation in cooperation with iVa and the world Business council for sustainable de-velopment. it is administered by the stockholm international water institute (siwi)
Mentor4researchUlrica almhöjd a researcher in cariology at the sahlgrenska academy; department of Odontol-ogy at the University of gothenburg, received the Mentor4research scholarship for research of sek 100,000.
The Mentor4research programme is run and funded jointly by iVa and VinnOVa. The pro-ject is intended to provide talented researchers with a better network of contacts in the business world and helping them to recognise the com-mercial potential of their own research.
Over a million for Hans Werthén scholar-ship recipientsiVa distributed just over sek 3 million from the hans werthén foundation in 2011. Twenty-five academics received the scholarships for study or work abroad. The scholarships are aimed at Master’s students and researchers at universities and in industry with a main focus on natural sciences, engineering, economics and law. The scholarship recipients’ work should be able to lead to industrial benefits.The hans werthén foundation was established in 1990 in honour of hans werthén, an engineer and business leader chiefly with ericsson and electrolux.
These two companies donated the initial capital for the foundation.
rESPONSES tO PrOPOSALS
iVa’s opinion on the european commission’s proposal for a research and innovation framework programme 2014–2020 (U2011/661/f)
iVa’s opinion on e-identification Board and swedish e-identification (sOU 2010:104)
iVa’s opinion on Better rules for electronic com-munication (ds 2010:19)
iVa’s opinion on Overhaul of government agency structures for sweden, promoting trade and invest-ment (ds 2022:29)
PuBLiCAtiONS
ivA-aktuellt 2011in 2011 nine issues of iVa’s news magazine were published. Total distribution was just over 57,557 copies. iVa-aktuellt reaches readers in 35 countries. The circulation has remained constant for each publication date at just over 6,300. More than 200 new subscribers were added via the web and e-mail.
half of the articles are generated directly by iVa’s activities. 86 of iVa’s meetings (academy, project and Business executives council) have been covered. several members have been interviewed. enterprise, energy, environment, research and innovation have been the topics that been given the most coverage. in total, iVa- aktuellt contained 203 long articles and 285 short paragraphs. The editors have also published around 40 short news articles at iva.se.
iVa’s service initiative has received special cover-age, partly in account of its seminars, and partly in interviews with relevant individuals.
ivA-M-seriesiVa-M 422 innovationsmagasinet – från jordbruk till spetsigaste spetsteknik, 2011, 40 pp. (in swedish only) iVa-M 423 innOVaTiOnsplan sVerige – underlag till en svensk innovationsstrategi, 2011, 48 pp. (in swedish only) iVa-M 424 Minnesskrift, a Tribute to the Memory of sonya kovalevsky (1850–1891), 2011, 44 pp. (in swedish only)
iVa-M 425 strategic performance assessment for esa’s Melissa project, 2011, 24 pp. (in swedish only)
iVa-M 426 immateriella rättigheter och ekonomiska incitament– en kortfattad översikt av kunskapsläget, 2011, 40 pp. (in swedish only)
OMBudSMAN
justice of the supreme administrative court erik nymansson from 10 May 2011, previously Marianne eliason
AuditOrS
county governor per-Ola eriksson from 15 november 2011, previously former justice of the
supreme count Bo svenssonprofessor lars-gunnar Mattsson (div. Vi)jan larsson, authorised public accountant
AlternatesBertil edlund, Msc econ (div. Vi)jan palmqvist, authorised public accountant
ivA’s iNvEStMENt COMMittEE
anne-Marie pålsson (chairman)kerstin hessiusBörje ekholmBjörn O. nilssonlotta Thörn
fuNdiNG fOr ivA’S ACtivitiES
The academy receives external funds for specific projects that would not otherwise have been pos-sible and for which we are especially grateful. Below is a list of donors who contributed to iVa’s projects in amounts in excess of sek 500,000.
swedish energy agencyerik johan ljungberg’s education fundswedish council for working life and social researchswedish research council formasknut and alice wallenberg foundationMarianne and Marcus wallenberg foundationMinistry of enterprise, energy and communicationsriksbankens jubileumsfondsidaThe knowledge foundationMistra – foundation for strategic environmental researchswedish foundation for strategic researchMarcus and amalia wallenberg foundationThe swedish instituteconfederation of swedish enterpriseswedish agency for economic and regional growthVinnovaÅngpanneföreningens forskningsstiftelse
OffiCE Of tHE ACAdEMy
lena anderson, accountantcaroline ankarcrona, project ManagerBritta aulio, conference reservations
ann-Margret Back, assistantsheryhan Benzon, conference servicejacob Bjarnason, service Manager iTrobert Bwomono, aV technicianjohan carlstedt, project Managerann clauson, conference reservationsBarbara eriksson, hr Managerstaffan eriksson, project ManagerTed fjällman, project Manageranna-karin friskopps, conference reservationsÖsten frånberg, project Managerpatric holmström, service Manager iTkirsti häcki, project assistantper isaksson, communications Officeringrid jansson, division coordinatorMalin kratz, conference reservationshenrik lagerträd, communications Officerjacob lehmann, conference servicekenneth leverbeck, editor/writeranna lindberg, communications Officerhampus lindh, project Managerann-Margret Malmgren, assistantjan nordling, project Managerlennart Ohlsson, janitorrickard Olsson, Operations Manager iTjohan persson, project Managerjoakim rådström, head of Media relationspär rönnberg, editor in chief and legally respon-sible for publicationsjohan schuber, project ManagerÅsa sjöberg, conference ManagerMarkus strömberg, conference serviceUlla svantesson, international coordinatorarvid söderhäll, project ManagerMarika Thunberg petersson, Office coordinatorelin Vinger, project Managerjan westberg, communications Officer
ivA’S MANAGEMENt GrOuP
professor Björn O. nilsson, presidentMagnus Breidne, head of programmeslars fog, property Managercamilla koebe, communications directorMarie Owe, assistant to the presidentlotta Thörn, cfOper Ödling, secretary to the academy
IVA’s Management Group 2011.
The theme for IVA’s 2011 Annual Report is the Grand Chal-
lenges we are faced with. More and more people are sharing
smaller areas as urbanisation increases and populations grow.
Climate challenges, demographic changes and greater technol-
ogy development needs are what we are facing. In this context
we feel that Jacob Felländer’s image from the project entitled
“I Want to Live Close to You” is a good choice for our cover
photo. Jacob describes it like this:
I made a journey around the world, visiting its most
densely populated cities. An analog experiment with
the intent to capture the entire world in one image. The
whole world on a single, multi-exposed negative.
As places and people merged before me, I grew
increasingly fascinated at how close together we all live.
For the first time in the history of mankind, more of
us live in cities than in the country, and we have spent
fortunes building the most amazingly infra-structured
conurbations.
These creations continue to fascinate me. Our habitat
in these places may seem grotesque but we actually get
along surprisingly well in our cities. We may think that
we are different, we may think we like or dislike each
other. But still, we choose to live extremely close to one
another: next to, underneath, on top of.
Close.
Close together.
jacob felländer, April 2011
© Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, 2012P.O. Box 5073, SE-102 42 StockholmTfn: + 46 (0)8 791 29 00Fax: +46 (0)8 611 56 23E-mail: [email protected]: www.iva.se
ISSN: 1100-5645ISBN: 978-91-7082-839-3
project management: Anna Lindberglayout: Pelle Isaksson & Anna Lindbergdesign: Pelle Isakssontexts: Cecilia Borglin & Anna Lindbergtranslation: Diane Högstaprinted by: Edita Västra Aros
photos: Erik Cronberg, Cia Österberg (Exray), Jan-Olof Yxell (Chalmers), Kristian Pohl, Pär Rönnberg, Kenneth Leverbeck, Stefan Nilsson, Lennart Wennberg, Jann Lipka, Göran Billeson, Ingrid Jansson, Anders Olsson, Peter Ringström, Sofia Andersson, Sarah Wiklund, Anders Nylander & Torbjörn Zadig.