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International Affairs

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

Published: 12 June 2023Last Updated: 12 June 2023

Selection criteria for IVA’s 100 List

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

Published: 28 June 2023Last Updated: 28 June 2023

R2B Summit 2023

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

Published: 29 June 2023Last Updated: 29 June 2023

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

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

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

Reference Groups Roadmap for Metals and Minerals

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

Published: 06 September 2023Last Updated: 06 September 2023

IVA's Smart Industry

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

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

IVA’s Entrepreneurship Academy

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

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

Third Swede in space important door opener

IVA member Anna Rathsman is present when Marcus Wandt takes off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Wednesday to become Sweden's third astronaut in space. In her role as Director General of the Swedish National Space Agency, Anna Rathsman has been the spider in the web to make everything work. The mission could be a door opener for tomorrow's engineers and space researchers.

Research & Innovation
Spotlight articles
Published: 16 January 2024Last Updated: 27 November 2024
Anna Rathsman on the left satellite in space on the right

Embedl awarded for groundbreaking AI technology

Embedl wins IVA's Smart Industry 2024 Business Competition. The company develops innovative software tools and technologies that optimize machine learning models, with a focus on making AI models more efficient and energy-efficient.

Digitalisation
Articles
Published: 09 October 2024Last Updated: 21 January 2025
Three on stage

Report: Challenges for meeting increased demand for metals and minerals

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

Energy & Resources
Reports
Published: 12 February 2024Last Updated: 05 July 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Resource-Effective Food Sector in Sweden

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

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

IVAs Guldmedalj 2020 - Fredrik Bäckhed

Våra tarmar innehåller mer än ett kilo bakterier. De finns framför allt i tjocktarmen, där de bryter ner kostfibrer och främmande ämnen som våra celler själva inte kan ta hand om. Nästan alla dessa bakterier tillhör någon av två speciella grupper, som inte gör oss sjuka på samma sätt som många andra bakterier.

Articles
Published: 27 October 2020Last Updated: 20 June 2023

Omtvistad teknik i fokus på klimatmötet i Dubai

Klimatmötet COP28 i Dubai är över och en ny klimatöverenskommelse har undertecknats av nästan 200 länder. I avtalet öppnas för fortsatt utvinning och användning av fossila bränslen, förutsatt att man satsar på teknik för att fånga in koldioxidutsläppen. Ett steg framåt, men långt ifrån en lösning på alla problem. Det säger Johan Kuylenstierna, IVA-ledamot och generaldirektör på forskningsrådet Formas.

Energy & Resources
Research & Innovation
Articles
Published: 15 December 2023Last Updated: 15 December 2023

Vilket är Sveriges smartaste industriföretag? Nominera!

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

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

Policyfrågor nästa fokus för IVAs Entreprenörskapsakademi

IVAs Entreprenörskapsakademi verkar på olika sätt för att stimulera entreprenörskap i Sverige. Pontus Braunerhjelm är ny styrgruppsordförande för projektet, som nu inleder ett arbete med att stärka det svenska entreprenörskapet genom att fokusera på policyfrågorna.

Entrepreneurship
Articles
Published: 23 January 2024Last Updated: 23 January 2024

Debatt: Halvledare styr framtiden – och staten måste gå före

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

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

ICT for SWEDEN - Så blir Sverige en ledande internetnation

Slutrapport från IVA-projektet Ambient Sweden (2009–2010), med syftet att både säkra och flytta fram Sveriges positioner inom framtidens internet. Det handlade om att utifrån nuläget och de senaste forskningsrönen prioritera och se till att ansvariga organisationer och individer genomför nödvändiga åtgärder för att Sverige år 2015 skall vara en ledande Internetnation.

Digitalisation
Building & Construction
Reports
Published: 31 March 2011Last Updated: 29 May 2023