Nine-year evaluation of strategic innovation programs: SIO Grafen

This report concerns the nine-year evaluation of the strategic innovation program SIO Grafen. The evaluation's overall conclusion is that the program is well managed and effective, and contributes added value in creating an ecosystem for graphene actors, accelerating innovation and influencing the structural conditions within the area. The program operates within what may become a new Swedish profile area, which provides opportunities for other potential added values in addition to those that can already be observed.

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 stage.

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.