We can promise you a mouthwatering and delicious episode of the Smart Society Sweden Podcast because we are talking about Swedish food. It’s a story of heritage and innovation, and of safety and sustainability along the whole value chain. And at a time when worldwide food demand is growing, Sweden is one step ahead with innovative niche products being exported to customers around the globe. Today you’ll meet Ram Nair, founder and CEO of Mycorena, and Annika Sund, marketing manager and part...

There is a battery boom charging up the world, and a little northern country called Sweden is at the heart of it. Sweden now ranks #4 in the world in the battery supply chain after China, the US, and Germany. And Sweden’s closest neighbors Norway and Finland are also in the top 10. Today we are back by popular demand with a special episode. We will take a deep dive into what this new industry is all about, why it plays such a pivotal role in your life, and why exactly the first homegrown...

Digital transformation and global technology shifts are rapidly transforming working life, affecting how and where we do business. The traditional factory job of the past is being “killed” and it is time to “reskill” and “upskill” the workforce and prepare them for the jobs of tomorrow. But what can be done to ensure that today’s workforce is prepared for the transition? And what lessons and best practices can we learn from a smart society like Sweden? Our guests today are Jan Larsson, CEO...

  Every year in Stockholm, the Karl-Adam Bonnier Foundation invites a select group of trade officers to a dinner to give them a forum to discuss the issues that matter to them. In this episode, you are invited to the dinner. So imagine you are joining us around the table. We’ll l hear from two trade officers working with business and innovation issues in two very different corners of the world.  Our guests today are Roberth Friedman, Country Manager for Sweden at the Israeli Ministry...

What do you think of when you think of Sweden? When you ask people who have never been here, they might be picturing our fields and forests and not our industrial facilities and manufacturing plants. But in reality, Sweden has a booming manufacturing and industrial engineering sector that accounts for 20 percent of the country’s GDP and creates over 1 million jobs. Whether it’s steel, automotive, chemical, forestry food processing, or other sectors, find out how Sweden is pioneering the...

  We hear a lot about Sweden being the land of start-ups, the unicorn factory. Stockholm is actually the second most prolific tech hub in the world on a per capita basis, right behind Silicon Valley. So while we know that Sweden is a good breeding ground for entrepreneurs at start-ups, today we are going to talk about something that is not as well known, that Sweden is also a model of intrapreneurship, when the innovation and invention is happening inside an established company.  Our...

    What’s the secret of Sweden’s success in creating a smart society? It might very well be a spirit of collaboration. Co-creation between the public and private sector, between universities and start-ups, and between large and small companies are all things Sweden is known for. In this episode, we dive into how Sweden became a co-creation nation and what lies ahead.   Our guests today are Jennie Cato, Head of Public Affairs and Partnerships at Scania Group and Magnus Mähring,...

High wages, strong unions, generous welfare and regulated markets. Sweden has been compared to a bumblebee. It should be too heavy and weighed down to fly. But that doesn’t stop it from soaring. Our guests today are David Crouch, British journalist based in Sweden and author of  Bumblebee Nation: The Hidden story of the new Swedish model and Almost Perfekt: How Sweden Works and what we can learn from it, and Lena Sellgren, chief economist at Business Sweden.  The Smart Society Sweden...