Nine-year evaluation of strategic innovation programs: Conclusions from six evaluations 2023

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This report summarizes the nine-year evaluations of six strategic innovation programs: BioInnovation, Innovair, IoT Sverige, SIO Grafen, Smartare elektroniksystem and Swelife. The evaluation shows results for participants in the form of increased cooperation, skill development, increased innovative capacity, but also project results such as development of demonstrators. The programs have also contributed with important qualitative added value, such as the programs' role as platforms and coordinating actors within their areas of intervention. All programme have made efforts that probably no other public innovation program could have done.

Vinnova, the Swedish Energy Agency and Formas finance seventeen strategic innovation programs. Through cooperation in areas that are strategically important for Sweden, conditions are created for sustainable solutions to global societal challenges and increased international competitiveness.

In 2023, six strategic innovation programs have undergone their nine-year evaluation. In these evaluations, a particular emphasis has been on examining results and early effects of the programs. The evaluators have also followed up action plans from the six-year evaluation and submitted recommendations for the programs' fourth and final three-year phase.

Equality and independence have been two guiding stars in the evaluation process. Vinnova, the Swedish Energy Agency and Formas have procured Sweco Sverige AB to carry out the nine-year evaluations. The content, conclusions and recommendations of this report are theirs.