Monday January 23, 2012, marks the opening of the Innovative Sweden exhibition at MaRS Centre, Toronto, Canada.

In connection with the official opening, Canadian and Swedish representatives will participate in a panel discussion on “Key Factors in Creating Innovation Momentum” moderated by Kevin Stolarick, Research Director at the Martin Prosperity Institute.

The Innovative Sweden exhibition will be on show between January 23 and February 10 and in that period a number of discussions on innovation and challenges for the future will be held.

Monday January 23: Official Opening and Panel Discussion “Key Factors in Creating Innovation Momentum”

Monday January 30: Life Science Seminar and Panel Discussion “More Bang for the Buck – More Health Care for Less”

Tuesday February 7: “Best Practice for Innovations – Building the next generation of entrepreneurs in Sweden and Canada” including four seminars.
“Innovative Ecostystems & International Collaboration”
“Canada-Sweden Tech Venture Exchange”
“The Future of Mobile and Networked Communities”
“The Transmission Grid of the Future – Integration of Renewables and other Challenges”

Watch this space for updates and details on the program.

 

Michael Kanellos in Forbes has an interesting piece about the Organo Click innovation that is a part of the Innovative Sweden exhibition.

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After a full week with an extensive program with 54 top speakers, hundreds and hundreds of interested visitors and new build connections between Sweden and California it is time for Innovative Sweden to say goodbye to Stanford University and Silicon Valley – for this time. It has been amazing!

Do not despair, more chances to take part of the exhibition will come. The next stop on the world tour is Toronto followed by Washington DC. Hope to see you there!

 

The companies taking part operate in the fields of Information and Communication Technology, Clean Technology, Gaming and Life Science.

See the full list. Welcome!

 

 

If you who missed any of the presentations or were not able to attend at all, we have some great news for you! Everything has been recorded by our topnotch filmmaker Tobias Elvhage and can be seen here.
November 2-9 at the Alumni Center, Stanford University.

Live stream from the exhibition

The exhibition has arrived at Stanford! The builders are doing the construction of the modules, the speakers are getting ready, name tags are being printed. The excitement is enormous. Innovative Sweden is about to open!

Sweden may be a small country, but we are full of great ideas. Thank you Sweden for mobile telephony, the pacemaker, Bluetooth, the zipper, safety matches, color graphics for computers, the modern refrigerator, Tetra Pak, three-point seatbelt and dynamite.

Now it’s time for a new generation of innovations from Sweden. See them at Innovative Sweden.

 

We are proud to announce that the wine that will be served for the Opening of Innovative Sweden comes from West Wines, the producers of the wine that was served at the Nobel Banquet last year.

The small, but yet so charming vineyard West Wines is located in the Dry Creek Valley region of Sonoma County. It is  is owned and operated by the Swedish couple Katarina Bonde and Bengt Åkerlind.

Their 2005 West Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve was served with the entrée at the Nobel Banquet for the Nobel Prize laureates, the Swedish royal family, and 1,300 guests. The festivities are being held at the Blue Hall of the City Hall of Stockholm.

This is the first time in Nobel Prize history, going back to 1901, that an American wine was selected for the dinner. A special panel of wine experts blind tasted wines from around the world for the honor of being part of this prestigious ceremony.

Katarina Bonde and Bengt Åkerlind enjoying one of their fantastic wines.

Cheers and welcome!

 

For further information about the winery, visit http://projects.si.se/innovative-sweden/program/november-2nd-opening-ceremony/

For further information about the winery, visit http://www.westwines.com

Folke Rydén, Swedish journalist and filmmaker, has just released his new short film about Sweden’s cutting-edge research and innovation, titled “Sweden, leading the world in innovation”. Pretty suitable, right?

Just a hundred years back Sweden was one of the poorest countries in Europe. Today it’s ranked as the world’s most innovative country, and a world leader in many areas.

Research at Swedish universities and companies has resulted in many successful innovations. For example, the pacemaker, the dialysis machine and mobile telephony.  Innovative Swedish thinking has also given us the music streaming service Spotify and the internet calling service, Skype. Follow us on a journey through some of the fields in which Sweden excels.

Each year, 230 000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer. One in six of those will die, but if detected early, a new innovative and cost-effective treatment from Sweden could have patients in and out of the hospital and cancer-free on their lunch break. So far, the technology has worked 100-percent of the times.

NeoDynamics are one of 20 Swedish cutting-edge innovation companies that will be showcased at the exhibition Innovative Sweden, November 2-9.

NeoDynamics biopsy needles and thermotherapy improve the life of thousands of breast cancer patients around the world with unique, combined diagnostic and treatment methods. With their anti-seeding biopsy system, the risk of cancer cells spreading during diagnostic biopsy testing is minimized. The way to diagnose and treat cancer patients has improved with NeoDynamics safe, early and minimally-invasive testing methods and comprehensive treatment.

Read the full press release

Spaceport Sweden just launched an exclusive space tourism product, Northern Lights Flights, that brings you closer to the magical and mythical northern lights. Karin Nilsdotter, CEO at Spaceport Sweden to make space available to anyone.

We are more than pleased to have Karin Nilsdotter (in the picture), as a speaker at the theme day “The Keyfactor in Creating Innovative Hotspots“, November 3rd. Her session speech, “Creative Space – establishing an innovative hotspot above the arctic circle”, is too great to be missed. Sign up now!

“Northern Lights are a natural space phenomenon. The phenomenon is also the base to Swedish space activities and research, which started 60 years ago. Northern lights flights are Spaceport Sweden’s first space tourism product and with it we offer an exclusive possibility to see and experience the mythical northern lights from a front row seat”, says Karin Nilsdotter, CEO at Spaceport Sweden. The premier flight takes place 15th of January 2012. Source.

Read their latest press release about their increased collaboration with the US due to an new agreement with Mojave Air & Space Port: Mojave Air & Space Port and Spaceport Sweden_ 20111027

One of the top speakers in the program for Innovative Sweden has a unique plan for a sustainable future! It will eliminate all fossil fuels. All energy used will be generated from wind, water and solar power by 2030. It is possible, join us for the event “Cleantech: Building sustainable cities for the future” and learn how at the session speech by Mark Z. Jacobson.

The cost of generating and transmitting power would be less than the projected cost per kilowatt-hour for fossil- fuel and nuclear power. Isn’t that amazing?! Read the full article from Scientific American.

Mark Z. Jacobson is Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.  He is also a Senior Fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment and Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy. Don’t miss out on this. Register today!

Blackbox turns entrepreneurship into a science. Their Innovation Code will trigger a new era revolutionizing how business decisions are made, adding an increased success rate of startups and accelerated pace of innovation around the world. Meet the founders and listed to their story. Make sure you sign up for the event November 3rd, 5.30 pm at Stanford. 

 

The Startup Genome Project aims to measure a number of factors that may contribute to startups’ success or failure, including design, customer development, market based on data from more than 3,200 startups and research from Berkeley and Stanford.

The founders of Blackbox, Bjoern Herrmann and Max Marmer, are the people behind the report “Startup Genome: Cracking the Code of Innovation”. Their project aims to investigate “the science of startups” and incorporate their results into Blackbox, a new seed accelerator that was created with the merger of TechVenture, Cofounder Network, Founders First and Startup School.

94% of the startup fails. That sure is an intimidating statistic but it does not come down to luck. Let Blackbox prove to you that building a startup can be a science. Predominantly it comes down to self-destruction rather than competition. Learn the do’s and don’ts of the start up world by joining us at this great event!

Endoscopic Pig from Michael Hoy on Vimeo.

Most video cameras have a hard time seeing at night but thanks to Nocturnal Vision’s innovation a full-color night vision is possible. They enable video cameras to see in the dark through a software solution inspired by the nocturnal vision of spiders.

Nocturnal Vision are one of the innovations that has been chosen out of 201 applicants to be showcased at Innovative Sweden. Check it out!

Since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been bestowed in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The prize was established by the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.

The Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel are awarded in Stockholm on December 10th every year.

Is that not a great way to celebrate cultural and scientific innovations?

If you would like to learn more you can watch interviews with the laureates, this years announcements and much more here.

To all of you innovation lovers out there,

The tickets for the program and exhibition Innovative Sweden is available for purchase. Time is running out, and so are the number of tickets. Join us at the Alumni Center at Stanford University.

Make sure to get your ticket today! Visit our registration page.

The Swedish Innovation SOLVATTEN saves lives using only sunshine.

SOLVATTEN is a combined solar water purifier, water container and water heater. It uses heat and ultra violet energy from the sun, and a built-in filter, to purify contaminated water. The innovation makes microbiologically contaminated water drinkable in 2-6 hours. Users in developing countries have experienced health improvements, less fatigue, savings on fuel wood, and improved status in their community.

One unit will provide a family with safe and hot water for 5-10 years. It uses no batteries, consumables or chemicals and works where large infrastructure investments are difficult. Providing SOLVATTEN to households, in developing countries, will help contribute towards sustainable development, through improved living standards, improved health, protection of the environment, and by making income-generating activities possible.

You will be able to meet the founders and experience the innovation SOLVATTEN as well as 19 other innovations from Swedish startup companies at an exhibition presenting innovative solutions to old and new problems during INNOVATIVE SWEDEN at Stanford University November 2-9. Register now!

SOLVATTEN have received international attention, on CNN among others.

 

The exhibition launch on November 2nd is getting closer. Here are some selected photos from the preview that was set in Stockholm this summer for all of you that just cannot wait.