Swedish Innovation

It all started with being rejected internships during university studies and when life gave Matija Milenovic lemons, he founded his own rocket science company. Less then 3 years later, they have already had their product on SpaceX Falcon and next step is to become the DHL of deep space. Matija will tell you more about what porkchop and space has in common as well as how space can help us become more sustainable on our own planet. 

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Connect with Matija Milenovic on Linkedin 

Porkchop 

The audiobook mentioned "Innovation stack" 

Children spend way so much time infront of screens today and at the same time they read books less and less. Monica decided that this can be combined and founded Boksnok (Book worm), the app where children can read books on the screen. Can she make books more interesting than "Baby Shark" and cute kittens on YouTube? And what made her have the guts to start a company right in the beginning of a pandemic?  

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Connect with Monica on Linkedin  

Boksnok 

Medea S. Ekner has been obsessed of changing the museum experience ever since she was young when she started to wonder why nobody talked to her at museums. In this episode we talk about the future of museums, how new technology such as virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D elements and online exhibitions can help creating a new experience. We also talk about how museums will move away from focusing on displaying objects and why partnerships and relationships are important parts of the puzzle.

EPISODE LINKS

Connect with Medea S. Ekner on LinkedIn

ICOM Sweden

Virpal Singh wanted to help out in 2015 when refugees from Syria arrived in Sweden. Standing at the central station in Stockholm, watching the chaotic situation were volunteers where shouting out "Do someone speak Arabic?" in to the crowd he got the fix idea that there must be a better way. Volunteering with helping refugees from Syria gave him reason to start his superfast growing and successful award-winning startup Digitaltolk, Digital Interpretations Scandinavia. They have grown over 2 800% in only four years and had over 350 000 bookings last year. Virpal is a true leader that walks the talk and is now spending every free hour in his busy startup founder schedule to help the Ukrainian refugees that just started to arrive in Sweden.

EPISODE LINKS 

Connect with Virpal Singh on Linkedin

Digitaltolk 

Gasell company of the year 2021 - Dagens Industri

Anne Årneby is a professional board member (including board member at Svenska Spel ) and CEO. For the last five years she has been the CEO of Nordic Morning Group. Nordic Morning Group was founded in 1859 and is the second oldest company in Finland.  When Anne took over as CEO in 2017 the mission was clear – turn the company around and find a new home for it.  Anne will tell how to lead a complete reorganization (including removing the management team during a period of time) by literally turning the whole organization upside down to create a modern innovative organization.  We also talk about the new role of board members to support innovative organizations with more uncertainty on how to get to the goal. And lastly – did she manage to reach the goal of finding a new home for the company? Let’s figure that out!

EPISODE LINKS

Connect with Anne Årneby on LinkedIn

The book Open strategy that Anne referred to

LinkedIn post Change your story, double the price tag by Anne Årneby 

Nordic Morning Group

In this episode we talk to Katarina Önell, client director at Kantar Sifo. Kantar Sifo is one of the world’s leading organizations when it comes to insights and analysis. Katarina is an expert on what needs to be measured to getting things done. She will give you her tips when it comes to how to create an innovation culture, and what that is, and how you should measure it. We also talk about how fear will not create anything and Katarina shares how she helped a traditional bank go from zero innovation to securing their future existence by challenging the culture of silence.

EPISODE LINKS

Connect with Katarina Öhnell on LinkedIn

Kantar Sifo

6 'I's® of Innovation

Can we solve the climate impact from cow burps? Do the methane emissions from cows even effect the global warming? 

Fredrik Åkerman is the founder and CEO of Volta Greentech that uses seaweed as a supplement to cow diets to have them produce less methane emissions in their burps and farts! Does it work? Seems so! Hear Fredrik tell the story behind this innovation and crazy idea and about their production plans in Lysekil. 

EPISODE LINKS

Connect with Fredrik Åkerman on Linkedin 

Volta Greentech 

Is sustainable growth possible or just a "nice" utopia expression? Annie Lindmark knows the answer. She is paving the way for innovation that makes a difference at Sweden's innovation agency Vinnova, governed by the Swedish government. She is also the program director for Eurostars which is the largest international funding program for SMEs wishing to collaborate on R&D projects that create innovative solutions for commercialization. Eurostars is a joint program between EUREKA and the European Commission. Annie has been awarded "Innovator of the year" and is a true inspiration when it comes to innovation! We talk to Annie Lindmark about how governmental grants can boost innovation.

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Connect with Annie Lindmark at Linkedin  

Vinnova  

Eurostars

EUREKA