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Smart Industry competition

The Smart Industry Business Competition recognises and rewards companies that take advantage of the opportunities offered by digitalisation in a smart and innovative way with clear results. The aim is to stimulate the digital and sustainable transformation of SMEs by highlighting best practice. The business competition has been held annually by IVA since 2016.

Published: 27 June 2023Last Updated: 27 June 2023

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

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

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

Cyber attacks a growing threat to Swedish business

Much publicised cyber attacks and Russian displeasure at Sweden’s NATO application have brought the issue of cyber security to the fore. In the run-up to this autumn’s elections, several authorities have already noticed increased foreign influence activity. And the threat is growing not only towards the state, but also towards Swedish companies. Many are not well equipped, says cyber security expert and IVA Fellow Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder.

Spotlight articles
Published: 27 June 2022Last Updated: 28 June 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

Resource Effectiveness and the Circular Economy

The Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation should be given responsibility to establish a national strategy to make Sweden a world leader in resource effectiveness and circularity. This is one of the messages communicated in this final report from a project of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).

Published: 31 March 2020Last Updated: 28 June 2023

Textiles – from waste to resource by 2030

The demand for fibres is expected to increase by 150 percent by 2050. This type of increase is not sustainable in the long term, as most of the fibres today are synthetic and come from fossil-based raw materials and water-intensive cotton. This IVA report focuses on the challenges in the textile sector – and on possible pathways forward.

Published: 12 January 2020Last Updated: 17 August 2023

Textile sustainability from a consumer perspective

This report has been produced as a separate appendix to the earlier report on resource-effective textiles produced within the framework of IVA’s Resource Effectiveness and the Circular Economy project. This report was written by Malin Viola Wennberg in her role as Communications Manager for the eight-year cross-disciplinary research programme called Mistra Future Fashion 2011–2019.

Published: 29 July 2020Last Updated: 16 August 2023

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.

Published: 24 March 2020Last Updated: 16 August 2023

Resource effectiveness through shared space in Sweden

Sharing space and existing offices is necessary in a sustainable society. A sector report from the IVA project Resource Effectiveness and the Circular Economy (ReCE).

Published: 07 February 2020Last Updated: 16 August 2023

Attractive Living Environments and Flows – Eight themes in planning good cities of the future

The Attractive Living Environments and Flows subproject has a people-centric focus and has aimed to define important themes to find ways to face the challenges identified domestically and internationally in, for example, the UN’s Global Sustainability Goals.

Published: 27 September 2017Last Updated: 16 August 2023

Moore’s Law – the key to a sustainable Sweden?

A vision of art, design and the humanities as the Nordic region’s next competitive advantage. Essay written for IVA as part of Swedish Futures - a vision for Sweden as a country of technology and innovation by 2035 - by IVA Fellows Martin Nilsson Jacobi and Anna Valtonen.

Published: 04 May 2026Last Updated: 01 June 2026
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IVA Business Executives Council| Summer Session 2026

Published: 20 April 2026Last Updated: 20 April 2026

Hållbar nystart för Sverige

Projektet drevs mot bakgrund av den pågående coronpanemin, med fokus på att ta fram förslag på åtgärder som på lång sikt bidrar till ökad konkurrenskraft och hållbar tillväxt, och därmed lägger grunden till ett fortsatt högt välstånd.

Published: 01 June 2020Last Updated: 30 November 2022

IVAs Ungdomspanel

IVAs ungdomspanel samlar samhällsengagerade ungdomar i åldern 13-16 år från hela Sverige. I ungdomspanelen samlar vi inspel och diskuterar idéer och förslag från IVAs projekt om hur barn och unga ser på och tar till sig kunskap, i och utanför skolan.

Published: 29 June 2023Last Updated: 29 June 2023

Nätverket STEM för unga

Nätverket STEM för unga utgör en strategisk mötesplats där aktörer som bedriver fritidsverksamhet inom STEM samarbetar för att främja ungas intresse och engagemang för naturvetenskap och teknik.

Published: 27 June 2024Last Updated: 27 June 2024

Vätgasens roll i ett fossilfritt samhälle

Vätgas kan bli en nyckelspelare när samhället ska göras hållbart och när löften om ett fossilfritt energisystem och en klimatsmart industri- och transportsektor ska realiseras. För att nå dit måste vi hantera nya förutsättningar vad gäller tekniska lösningar, ekonomi och styrmedel.

Projects & programmes
Published: 03 May 2021Last Updated: 06 December 2022

Lärarmaterial om metaller och mineral

Efterfrågan på metaller och mineral beräknas mångdubblas när världen ska ställa om till fossilfria energikällor. Vilka utmaningar innebär det och hur kan tillgången säkras på ett hållbart sätt? Ta del av IVAs material för lärare om kritiska metaller och mineral.

Published: 26 June 2024Last Updated: 26 June 2024
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Möt AI-kommissionen

Möt AI-kommissionens ordförande Carl-Henric Svanberg som tillsammans med professor Fredrik Heintz delar med sig av insikter och perspektiv på den snabbt växande betydelse AI har i dagens samhälle - och kan tänkas ha i framtiden. AI-kommissionen är tillsatt av regeringen för att analysera och ge konkreta förslag på hur AI kan främja Sverige som ledande forskningsnation, avancerad industrination och ambitiös välfärdsnation.

Published: 23 April 2024Last Updated: 23 April 2024

STEM-strategi för Sverige: seminarium med utbildningsminister Mats Persson

Ett samarrangemang mellan Kungl. Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien (IVA) och Sydsvenska Handelskammaren, för att att belysa problembilden men också ge medskick till regeringen utifrån ett sydsvenskt perspektiv.  

Published: 22 April 2024Last Updated: 22 April 2024