Swedish Innovation

In this episode we meet Johanna Hultén, a ClimateTech entrepreneur and inventor and the force behind Cestore. She's on a mission to tackle the climate crisis with groundbreaking innovations: ocean-based carbon capture and carbon conversion. With her technology, removing gigatons of carbon dioxide annually is both feasible and cost-effective, bringing us closer to the goal of limiting global warmin...

Can you fight single-use plastics products as a small start-up with limited resources? Can you really create a deodorant that is so great it lasts for longer than your lifetime and can be passed on to your grandchildren? And how should you do to be successful on Kickstarter?  Adam Webb, serial entrepreneur, gives his advice on how to make your idea become reality, but also shares his own fail...

When everyone else fights for the market shares of e-scooters in the big cities, Hopp has a different business model that works perfect for small towns. Through franchise they have reached small cities like Kiruna long before anyone would imagined. In this episode we talk about the e-scooter business, what difference it makes to both the customer experience, sustainability, quality and market expa...

What's the difference between the swedish startups and a typical valley start-up?  Annie makes a comeback and gives her review of 2022 in terms of innovations. She also talks about how Swedish startups can learn from Silicon Valley by the program TINC from Nordic Innovation House. And what's the difference between Swedish start-ups and typical valley start-ups?  If you're interested, app...

Why is Sweden so innovative? And how can we boost innovation specifically within the mining industry? Can you direct in which field to be innovative?  Jenny Greberg invited Darja isaksson, who is the director general at Vinnova, to discuss these topics with us.  Vinnova is Sweden’s innovation agency that helps to build Sweden's innovation capacity and contributing to sustainable growth....

Recycling metals, will that kill the mining industry?  In this episode we get insights from reality regarding circular economy within the mining industry. We talk about the current state of recycling, the upsides with it but also the drawbacks with Charlotte Andersson Charlotte is associate professor in metallurgy at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden’s and one of Europe's leading univers...

Everybody wants an electric vehicle, but no one wants to live next to a mine. This paradox might slow down the transition to renewable energy system, but is it true? Does actually no one wants to live next to a mine?  In this episode, the second one in our miniseries together with Swedish Mining Innovation and Jenny Greberg, their programme director, we discuss Social Innovation in the mining...

In this mini series we dig into everything from what type of minerals and metals we actually have in Sweden to social innovation and circular economy in the mining industry. To guide us through these topics we have the programme director from Swedish Mining Innovation, Jenny Greberg, and leading Swedish experts. Jenny, a professor in mining and rock engineering, and one of the most prominent voice...

"The proof is in the pudding" is what Stefan himself says is one of the success factors behind his two very successful startups: POC and CAKE. The idea of POC came to his mind sitting in the ski lift and wanting to contribute to save more lives by making safer helmets that also people wanted to wear. Later on, when Stefan got a hand of a very early electric motorbike prototype it was just way too...

Want to grow your business during 2022? E-commerce is here to stay, and Soledad Gonzalez will tell you all about what you need to focus on during 2022 and what top trends you cannot skip. Soledad works as E-commerce analyst project manager for E-barometern. E-barometern is a quarterly report giving you all insights you need to succeed with E-commerce. Sandra Bourbon and Soledad talk about the repo...

Energy storage solutions and solar power systems are here, but still not affordable for many. A large upfront cost can be challenging. Ulrika Tornerefelt, the CEO of Stella Futura, has worked hard with implementation of clever business models to boost the transformation to solar power and battery energy storage systems, both in Sweden and in Africa. Stella Futura enables usage of both batteries an...

How does one of the most creative gaming companies such as Paradox Interactive work with innovation? And what can other industries learn from the gaming industry? Charlotta Nilsson has a broad experience from many different industries. She gives us the reason why the gaming industry needs to be more creative and how she makes creativity spark at Paradox Interactive. We also discuss if a company ne...

Few are left untouched when listening to Shori Zand's life story. Graduated from university only 19 years old. Came to sweden with two small kids and had to start all over not knowing anyone. She is one of the pioneers that challenged the public heathcare system meaning it did have care for every patient and with using diversity and inclusion as real asesset 20 years before it was a thing she made...

Time to increase your results times two? With the extraordinary results method it is possible. In this episode, Sandra Bourbon talks to Maximilian Tropé about how he helped a pharmaceutical company go from one approved drug per year to two. Maximilian became obsessed with goal settings to reach extraordinary results when he played ice hockey. Today, he helps elite athletes and business leaders set...

Ever wondered what a Chief Innovation Officer does and how to succeed in the role? Martin Daniels has the answers!  Martin is a former Boston Consulting Group (BCG) management consultant. For the last 8 years he has been involved in transforming Synsam Group from drab to superhero. Synsam just went public on the Stockholm stock exchange valued at around EUR 925 million.  Synsam is one of Europe's...

Christina Lundbäck's father was an inventor from tip to toe and when he passed away Christina took the decision to let those "da Vinci" inventions become alive. One of the offsprings was Surfcleaner with the invention of a machine that can separate oil from water very efficient and reliable. Hear Christina’s unique story about how it was to take the company from nothing to where they are today, wh...

Every wondered why some of the world's most successful organizations can stay ahead of disruption, adopting and implementing innovative strategies while others fail? Kurt Matzler has the answer: open strategy. Kurt is professor of strategic management at the University of Innsbruck, academic director of the Executive MBA program at MCI in Innsbruck and a partner at the international management con...

Did you know that you may be entitled to financial compensation that you did not even know about? Or that you can book a free introductory meeting with a lawyer? Getting help from the right jurist as a private person is both difficult and costly. Lawyers Azra Osmancevic and Evelina Anttila got tired of this and started the robot lawyer Justic. We get to hear everything about their start up story,...

William Bergh just couldn't stop thinking about the battery ecosystem and the missing link. How could batteries be reused? How could customers, consumers, producers, buyers and other key-functions find each other to create a circular business system? Only 25 years old, he decided to be the change he didn't find and founded Cling systems.  Cling systems develops the intelligent trading pl...

Josefina Sallén works as circular catalyst at the reputable RISE Research Institute of Sweden where she uses the latest research when it comes to circular economy and helps organizations to implement it. Josefina has worked as leader and management consultant in Sweden and internationally. But sustainability has not always been a matter of course for Josefina. Before she thought of sustainability...

Listen to the queen of circular economy, Elin Bergman, when she teaches how you can start earning money on your waste instead of wasting money and time on unsustainable ways to handle your waste. Or as Elin says, waste isn't waste. It is resources in the wrong place! She has been engaged in nature and sustainability forever and was responsible for circular economy at WWF for several years before s...

It all started with being rejected internships during university studies and when life gave Matija Milenovic lemons, he founded his own rocket science company. Less then 3 years later, they have already had their product on SpaceX Falcon and next step is to become the DHL of deep space. Matija will tell you more about what porkchop and space has in common as well as how space can help us become mo...

Children spend way so much time infront of screens today and at the same time they read books less and less. Monica decided that this can be combined and founded Boksnok (Book worm), the app where children can read books on the screen. Can she make books more interesting than "Baby Shark" and cute kittens on YouTube? And what made her have the guts to start a company right in the beginning of a pa...

Can circular economy thinking solve our charging infrastructure limitations for electric vehicle, EV? In this episode Sara Hermansson interviews Jan Abrahamsson, CEO of Zpark. Zpark takes EV charging to the next step and their products make charging more accessible for everyone.  EPISODE LINKS Connect with Jan Abrahamsson on Linkedin  Zpark 

Medea S. Ekner has been obsessed of changing the museum experience ever since she was young when she started to wonder why nobody talked to her at museums. In this episode we talk about the future of museums, how new technology such as virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D elements and online exhibitions can help creating a new experience. We also talk about how museums will move away from focusi...