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