Swedish Innovation

Virpal Singh wanted to help out in 2015 when refugees from Syria arrived in Sweden. Standing at the central station in Stockholm, watching the chaotic situation were volunteers where shouting out "Do someone speak Arabic?" in to the crowd he got the fix idea that there must be a better way. Volunteering with helping refugees from Syria gave him reason to start his superfast growing and successful...

Anne Årneby is a professional board member (including board member at Svenska Spel ) and CEO. For the last five years she has been the CEO of Nordic Morning Group. Nordic Morning Group was founded in 1859 and is the second oldest company in Finland.  When Anne took over as CEO in 2017 the mission was clear – turn the company around and find a new home for it.  Anne will tell how to lead...

In this episode we talk to Katarina Önell, client director at Kantar Sifo. Kantar Sifo is one of the world’s leading organizations when it comes to insights and analysis. Katarina is an expert on what needs to be measured to getting things done. She will give you her tips when it comes to how to create an innovation culture, and what that is, and how you should measure it. We also talk about how f...

Can we solve the climate impact from cow burps? Do the methane emissions from cows even effect the global warming?  Fredrik Åkerman is the founder and CEO of Volta Greentech that uses seaweed as a supplement to cow diets to have them produce less methane emissions in their burps and farts! Does it work? Seems so! Hear Fredrik tell the story behind this innovation and crazy idea and about thei...

Is sustainable growth possible or just a "nice" utopia expression? Annie Lindmark knows the answer. She is paving the way for innovation that makes a difference at Sweden's innovation agency Vinnova, governed by the Swedish government. She is also the program director for Eurostars which is the largest international funding program for SMEs wishing to collaborate on R&D projects that create in...

Henrik Berndtson is CEO of All Things Live. All Things Live is the largest independent player in the Nordic region when it comes to live entertainment. Sandra Bourbon had a talk with Henrik about hybrid events, how live venues will look in the future and how technology can help to create top selling venues. Henrik also gives his best advice on how to succeed with innovation by getting inspiration...

How can you make charity become more than just help? Malin found a innovative way of charity and founded Help to Help. Help to Help supports higher education in East Africa which helps their scholars to higher paid jobs. The education also creates a ripple effect for families and siblings. Hear more about how it all started and the obstacles Help to Help has overcome. EPISODE LINKS Connect with Ma...

Time to sell the car? Johan Arntyr is a management consultant and expert when it comes to innovation in public transportation. He shares with us how the future of public transportation will look like and answers questions like: When can you stop taking the bus and instead get picked up by an autonomous vehicle and is it a good idea to make public transportation free? Johan also gives his best advi...

Annie Backman is one of the co-founders of the healthcare startup Care to Translate. It was founded in 2018 to make healtcare better for all, despite language barriers. So far it has been used over 470 000 people in over 200 countries and even been part of the Times Square billboard by Nasdaq as one of the startups in actions against Covid-19. EPISODE LINKS Connect with Annie on LinkedIn Care to t...

Niclas Ihrén is the founder of Matters group and investor in several sustainable Swedish startups including the electric motorbike company CAKE. Listen to his advise on how to get started with sustainable investments and why innovation can be so tough.  EPISODE LINKS Connect with Niclas on LinkedIn Matters Group CAKE

This episode is an interview with our pod host Sara Hermansson to get to know her better. Sara works at Northvolt today and has been part of the startup journey almost from the start. Learn more about Northvolt, the very unique company that has gone from 20 to 2000 employees in 4 years and is the only company that can recycle and produce sustainable li-ion battery in large scale.   EPISO...

Welcome to the Swedish Innovation Podcast! In our first episode you will get to know the podcast host Sandra Bourbon. Listen to how she will get financially free, why she is called the feminist of the future and what innovative prank she did in her childhood.  EPISODE LINKS Connect with Sandra on LinkedIn Learn more about gender equal investments www.framtidsfeministen.se Download the first 1...

Welcome to the Swedish Innovation Podcast where we export Swedish unicornness! No buzzwords just real life stories of Sweden's most innovative thinkers and doers. A podcast by Sandra Bourbon and Sara Hermansson