Our activities

Health and Healthcare

The strategic area Health and Healthcare aims to find new solutions to meet the challenges with a rapidly increasing number of elderly citizens.

Transportation and Environment

The strategic area Sustainable Cities and Transport deals with meeting challenges in the fields of transport and environment and with the crossover to a resource-efficient and fossil fuel-free society.

Services and ICT

The strategic area Information Technology deals with meeting the changes and opportunities in society resulting from the new information technology.

Manufacturing and Working Life

The strategic area Production, Materials and Natural Resources deals with opportunities for Sweden to compete with goods and service production in an increasingly globalised market.

Challenge-driven Innovation

VINNOVA has identified four societal challenges in which Sweden’s prospects for internationally leading innovativeness are considered good.

Partnership Programmes

VINNOVA has partnership programmes with industry in the areas of forestry and timber, transport, IT and telecommunications, mining, steel, bioscience and financial market research.

Innovation Capacity in the Public Sector

Innovation Management is a collective term for leadership and organisational processes aimed at supporting and developing innovation capacity in systems, in organisations and for individuals.

Innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Innovative small and medium-sized enterprises are characterised by an ability to accept, apply and develop new knowledge and techniques in new business opportunities. These capabilities need to be developed and strengthened.

The Knowledge Triangle

The Knowledge Triangle aims to create an interaction between education, research and innovation thereby creating the conditions for increased relevance and utilisation of universities’ activities.

Individuals and Innovation Milieus

An important part of VINNOVA’s activity is developing strong research and innovation milieus in which universities, research institutes and companies all play key roles, either in one particular sector or several different ones. The objective of the programmes being run within this area is to create an infrastructure of strong research and innovation milieus which strengthen their international competitiveness and increase cooperation.

EU and international co-operation

VINNOVA's main international role is to actively build networks between different actors in Sweden and other countries and to promote Swedish participation in international research. The aim is to achieve consistency and synergy between national and international research and development

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