Mission:

• finance research, development and demonstration activities that meets the needs of business and the public sector
  
  
• foster co-operation between universities, industrial research institutes and business
  
  
• promote the diffusion of information and knowledge, especially to Sees
  
  
• stimulate increased Swedish participation in the EU framework programme, Eureka and cost.
  
  

Budget:

For the fiscal year 2001, 100m euros

Activities:

VINNOVA became operational on January 1 2001. The agency integrates
research and development in technology, working life and society.
VINNOVA cooperates closely with a network of private and public players who will jointly develop, disseminate and apply the new knowledge. The most worthwhile synergies often arise from innovation systems of this type.

VINNOVA supports needs-driven research by basing its activities on the
needs that exist among the different types of players in society. These
may be regions, suppliers, emerging industrial clusters, and similar types
of networks. One objective is encourage an increase mobility between sectors to make people more aware of the forces at work in the economy thus improving its capacity for innovation. We will also prioritise;

• IT, in a broad sense
  
  
• Life sciences/biotechnology
  
  
• Learning at work
  
  
• Projects to foster the development of stronger regional innovation systems
  

Staff:

150 employees

Contact:

Staffan Håkansson. www.vinnova.se
VINNOVA
SE-101 58 Stockholm
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