Welcome to
West Sweden & Gothenburg
ICT
Located in the middle of Scandinavia
– the Nordic and Baltic markets around
the corner
Gothenburg is the gateway to a 40 million population
in ten countries in the Nordic and the Baltic region
70 % of the area’s industrial capacity is found
within a radius of 500 kilometres
Growth clusters - Areas of Strength – Important Verticals
• Growth Clusters
• Automotive
• Transport & Logistics
• International trading
• Green Chemical
• Energy
• Biomedicine
• Food processing industry
• Financial services
• Design & Marketing
Communication
• ICT - Areas of Strength
• Embedded Systems
• Infrastructure & Cloud
• Mobile Technology
• Microwaves
• Visualization & Gaming
• ICT – Important Verticals
• eHealth / mHealth / MedTech
• Smart Grids (Energy)
• Logistics & Transportation
Top 25 ICT-companies of West Sweden
Ericsson 2 660
Volvo IT 2 470
TeliaSonera 1460
SAAB 1260
CGI 640
Epsilon AB 600
Hogia 475
Sigma 420
Ruag Space 320
HCL & RI.SE,
new figures
Rosemount Tankradar 310
Evry 310
Eltek Networks Infranet 300
Jeppesen Systems 280
Fujitsu 240
Experis 230
HiQ 230
Hewlett-Packard 220
Ascom 220
Adecco IT & Engineering 200
Altran 190
CapGemeni 190
Cybercom 160
Acando 150
Atea 150
Swerea IVF 150
# employees, SCB 2013
ICT- Cluster of West Sweden
• Approx 29 800 ICT-specialists
• More than 6 300 companies
• ICT integrated in all businesses
The Gothenburg region hosts:
Demanding Customers
Innovative suppliers
Driving actors in the Society
Cutting edge competence within Academy
Several cutting edge clusters
A habit of co-operating cross-borders
ICT-Cluster of West Sweden - Areas of Strength
• Embedded Systems
• Infrastructure & Cloud
• Mobile Technology
• Microwaves
• Visualization & Gaming
ICT-Cluster of West Sweden - Verticals for the future
• eHealth/mHealth/MedTech
• Smart Grids (Energy)
• Logistics & Transportation
ICT-Cluster of West Sweden – Emerging Areas
• BigData, AI, Machine Learning, Q1
• Security , Q2
• AR/VR, Q3
• EdTech, Q3
• Strategic Competence Sourcing
• ICT in the Public Sector - Digital Agenda
• IoT: Industry 4.0, Internet of Sports, …
• Photonics
• eCommerce, Blockchain, FinTech, ERP
ICT- Cluster in West Sweden
Cutting edge Clusters connected to Areas of Strength
Telematics Valley
Vehicle ICT Arena
Software Center
Elektronikindustriföreningen i Gbg
Embedded Gothenburg
GREAT – IT-Infrastructure
eHandel Göteborg
Microwave Road
Chase - Antennas
GHz-center – High Frequency Communication
Visual Arena – Visualization
Media Arena - Gaming
MedTech West
Smart Grids Mobilization & Kraftforum
STRIKE – Transport & ICT
Swedsoft
The cluster model
Business Region Göteborg ICT – How we support the ICT-cluster
• Business Intelligence
• Newsletter, 3000+ subscribers
• Trade Fairs, Conferences & Seminars
• Foreign Direct Investments
• Internationalization
• Cutting Edge Clusters
Cluster & NetworksWell developed Clusters & networks within Microwave, Telematics, Visualization, MedTech/eHealth, Automotive, etc
Example: Nordic Center of Microwave Technologies
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IoT & Automotive Public Sector
THE OFFER
• Roundtable Forum
• Associate Partners
Meeting
• Innovation Bazaar
• Open Innovation
Challenges
• Vehicle ICT Lab
• Project Broker
• R&D + Education
I want to know more…
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES
• Implement new innovations in
vehicle ICT, from research to
industrialization projects.
• Contribute to improve the
access to competence and
attract more engineers to a new
automotive industry.
• Contribute to the establishment
of a new supplier structure and
attract companies outside
today’s automotive industry.
Business Region Göteborg ICT & AI, Security, AR&VR, EdTech – What’s next
• Gather actors
• Mapping
• Workshop
• Networking
• Seminars
• Initiate a Cluster initiative
• Based upon Existing organizations
• TechNordic – North Denmark & Aalborg, South Norway & Oslo, West Sweden &
Gothenburg Region
ICT – Mega Trends – Globalization & Digitalization
Globalization
Small Export dependent country
West Sweden in particular
Digitalization
Growth Analysis – The digitalization (ICT) has
contributed to 42% of the productivity growth
in Sweden between 2006–2013,
(www.stratresearch.se/Documents/Strategipr
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ICT – Globalization – Challenges & Opportunities
Challenges
Lower entry barriers – tougher competiton
Need for Speed
New markets emerging, challenging status
quo
Opportunities
Easier entering new markets
Faster pace - Small agile companies
challenging the dinousaurs
Look West but also East
ICT – Digitalization – Challenges & Opportunities
Challenges
New value chains – 70% of customer value in
cars is software
Disruptive changes – Facit, Hasselblad,
Kodak, Nokia, Microsoft, SAP (?), Samsung
(?)
Need for Speed – The pace will never be as
slow in the future as today.
Opportunities
West Sweden ICT enabling companies like
Volvo, SKF, Ericsson to compete globally
Global need
Innovation system creating success stories,
more to come…
West Sweden Science Parks & Incubators
• Lindholmen Science Park
• Sahlgrenska Science Park
• Johanneberg Science Park
• Gothia Science Park
• Innovatum
• Science Park Halmstad
• Chalmers Venture
• GU Venture
• Framtidens Företag
• Drivhuset
• Inkubatorn i Borås
• Brewhouse
• eHive
• Glab21
Business Region Göteborg ICT – What’s next• Coming events
– GAME SCOPE 2018 (Aalborg), Aug 17-19
– Telematics Valley, Sept 5-6
– Innovation Bazaar, Sept 6
– ITS World Congress (CPH), Sept 17-21
– Women in Business Congress, Sept 18-19
– Architectural Visualization Day, Sept 20
– European Microwave Week (Madrid) Sept 23-28
– jDays, Sept 24-25
– Next Generation Threats 2018!, Sept 25
– Nordic Edge Expo (Stavanger), Sept 25-27
– Metis Forum, Sept 26
– Webdagarna (Web-days), Sept 26-27
– Park Annual, Sept 27
– Bokmässan (more details to follow), Sept 27-30
– Innovation Bazaar, Sept
– Future Skills, Oct 9-11
– WHINN 2018 – Week of Health and Innovation, Oct 9-11
(Odense)
– BizFeira (Santa Marie de Feira, Portugal), Oct 11
– STEW (Malmö), Oct 17-18
– Sweden Game Conference, Oct 17-19,
– Logistik & Transport, Nov 5-7
– WebSummit (Lisbon), Nov 5-8
– Embedded Conference Scandinavia, (Sthlm), Nov 6-7
– EHiN (Oslo), Nov 13-14
– eCarExpo Nov 30-Dec 2
– Evertiq Expo 2019, Jan 23
– Mobile World Congress (Barcelona) Feb 25-28
– Connect2Capital, March
– Leva & Fungera, March 26-28
– Electronics & Advanced engineering March 27-28
– DCongress, March
– Chalmers Initiative seminar on Digitalisation, March
– Electronic in Vehicles, April 2-3
– GAIA Conference, April
– Prod-Summit, April
– Foss-North (Open Source), April
– Vitalis 2019, May 21-23
– GbgTechWeek, May
– Offentliga rummet, May
– TNW Conference (Amsterdam), May
– Swedish Microwave Days, May
– IWDK (Internet Week DK) May 7-12 (Aarhus), May
– Forum Affärssystem & HR, May
– IoT Week 2019 (Aarhus), June 11-14
– Lindholmen Software Development Day 2019, Oct
• Newsletter, Seminars & Trade Fairs
• Areas of Strength & Verticals for the future
• Au Revoir!
For further information, please contact
M.SC. Industrial Engineering and Management