How Sweden goes about innovating
Summary
This includes supporting a battery revolution currently underway in the north of Sweden – a project that revolves around Northvolt, a company whose founder, Peter Carlsson, was formerly an executive at Tesla. Even with blind alleys and caves without line of sight to the antenna, Ericsson managed to provide high bandwidth (100mbps) and low latency throughout the mine. This ongoing demonstration project fits into the EU Commission programme Next Generation Carbon Neutral Pilots for Smart Innovation Mining Systems (or NexGen SIMS). Rather than try to find an entirely new topic that most of the people in the world haven’t yet thought of, what’s important is execution – how you make it happen on the ground.” “Having says that, Vinnova is definitely aligned with where many of the investments are going, internationally and nationally. We’re in IT and digital technologies, as in health, biotech and all kinds of technologies.” Vinnova is also the Swedish hub for the EU framework programme Horizon Europe.