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Energikontoret Regionförbundet Örebro - Örebro, Örebro Län
The Örebro Regional Development Council – Energy Agency is a regional energy agency in Örebro county. Its main objectives are to promote the efficient and sustainable use of energy and the production of renewable energy. The main role of the energy agency is to manage projects and to provide information about energy and sustainability, and to initiate and stimulate the cooperation among actors in the field of energy. The agency was founded in 1997 as a SAVE agency supported by the EU. Currently, the agency is exclusively financed by means from various assigners, mainly the Swedish Energy Agency.
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Energikontoret Regionförbundet Örebro
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Faxepark - Söderhamn, Gävleborg
FAXEPARK is a technique centre which is established in Söderhamn. FAXEPARK works for knowledge-intensive activities where different companies cooperate with each other.One of the most important ideas of FAXEPARK is the link between education and enterprise. The focus is directed primarily to companies in the ICT industry (Information and Communication Technology).
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Fiber Optic Valley - Hudiksvall, Gävleborg
Fiber Optic Valley started as a joint project between Ericsson cable, the municipality of Hudiksvall and VINNOVA, the Swedish governmental agency for innovation systems. Fiber Optic Valley is an organization working to make Sweden the world leader in the development of products and services based on fiber optics.
This technology is the foundation for virtually all modern information technology and is a dynamic and rapidly growing industry. The vision of Fiber Optic Valley is to be a fiber optics center of Europe by 2015. The core business is to assist the growth of global and local companies. This is achieved through their unique support in the form of research, training, financing, contacts and business development combined with and equally unique test environment for technical tests and behavioral science studies.
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Gävle-Dala Energikontor - Gävle/Falun, Gävleborg
Gävle-Dala Energikontor, or GDE-net, promotes energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy. They advocate a better use of the regions energy sources, act to improve the environment by moving from fossile fuels to renewable energy and to coordinate energy projects in the region. They also function as information clerks and advisors towards different actors, arrange seminars and courses produce and provides information material and they are a discussion partner in the municipalities energy planning. They work together with the municipality, the county council, energy businesses, timber companies and universities.
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Gävle-Dala Energikontor
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High Voltage Valley - Ludvika, Dalarna
The initiative to High Voltage Valley was prompted by the need to sustain the local community of Ludvika in Southern Dalarna, Sweden, together with an assessment of the opportunities that exist in the power transmission market. High Voltage Valley’s research environment will increase the attractiveness of career possibilities within the power transmission industry, to secure future competence needs. High Voltage Valley’s will accelerate industrial application of innovations in electrical power transmission and distribution. The vision is to be an attractive, world-leading, collaborative research milieu for the accelerated industrial application of electrical power transmission and distribution innovations.
High Voltage Valley works closely with ABB and they have test facilities for the Royal Institute of Technology and the University of Chalmers.
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Inkubera - Örebro, Örebro Län
Inkuberas purpose is to concretely and effectively assist the start-up and developing of new ideas, businesses from the public and the private sector, as well as assist the university and the university hospital. It´s a partly publically funded operation whose goal is to produce new viable businesses who in the long run can grow and be profitable. They provide a quicker and more effective commercialization of innovative ideas. Inkubera wishes to diminish the risk but at the same time increase the rate of growth for new businesses and provide the possibility for exchanges of ideas between entrepreneurs and scientific and commercial networks.
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Inkubera
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Robotdalen - Örebro, Örebro Län
Competence is an important part of the work in Robotdalen. Despite the increased competition in the global market Robotdalen try to get around through continuous development of new technologies, effective solutions and excellence work.
Robotdalen supports the development of robotics for industrial, logistics and health sectors. Research and development projects are inplemented by small and medium-sized companies, hospitals, global companies such as ABB and Örebro University and Mälardalen University. Here people work for more and better training and increased technology of interest in children and adolescents.
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Sandbacka Park - Sandviken, Gävleborg
Sandbacka Park is a technichal park with focus on tech and IT. The base for the companies within Sandbacka Park is in a large number of industrial enterprises in the region, of whom several are world leaders in their respective field. Sandbacka Park is one of Sweden’s fastest growing technical parks. Since its start the goal has been to supply a creative environment where companies can develop and grow together, and thus receive a competitive edge.
The concept of Sandbacka Park consists of being an incubator, an accelerator and a mentor program. Being an incubator means providing a physical environment where an entrepreneur, innovator or a project worker can develop their ideas in a creative environment at a low cost. To start up and run a business demands a good idea, a drive and knowledge. The drive and idea is the entrepreneur’s job, but the knowledge is where Sandbacka Park provides their expertise.
An accelerator is a way of assisting businesses in transition, either the companies are starting up again after a pause, they are recruiting, entering the international arena, need assistance with product placement or counseling in strategically important issues.
The mentoring program is for entrepreneurs and leaders who want to develop in their roles. The participants receive a conversation partner who functions as a mentor and assists with his or her personal experience and knowledge.
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Teknikdalen - Borlänge, Dalarna
Since 1988 Stiftelsen Teknikdalen (The Teknikdalen Foundation) has strived to assist innovators and small entrepreneurs in developing their business ideas. One of the Foundation`s tasks is to develop the University Högskolan Dalarna. So far it has exceeded our highest expectations.
Most innovations are not based on a flash of inspiration, but are the fruit of acquired knowledge. Yet innovations are not enough. What is also necessary is knowledge of how you build up a thriving business.
Teknikdalen supplies that knowledge. Through mentors, training and company angels they provide their entrepreneurs with the energy to grow. They open doors, seek out venture capital and connect their entrepreneurs with specialist contacts within anything from technology to marketing.
Teknikdalen has supported innovators within the fields of transport, think-thanks, ITS, design and much more.
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