Swedish ICT Opportunities

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Swedish ICT Opportunities
Invest in Sweden Agency, November 2007
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Highlights in Swedish ICT

• Wireless innovator and center of excellence
• Ideal pilot market
• Highly advanced and curious ICT users
• Unique areas of converging competencies
• Deregulated market
• Well developed venture capital market
• Strategic base in the Baltic Sea Region

Sweden is one of the two or three leading
countries in the world when it comes to new
technologies. If you're curious about new trends,
just come and take a look at Sweden . Steve
Ballmer, Microsoft,in Stockholm, April 2005
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Three opportunities
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Piloting with limited risks

• Market that is representative for European
  culture and design taste
• Test market for world leaders like Coca Cola,
  Levis, Nokia, Motorola, Microsoft, Alcatel and
  Landrover, Nikon, FON and Omnifone
• Limited risk with high gains
• Market that is easy to control
• Presence of world leaders
• Open test environments for both terminals and
  applications
• Test beds and research institutes
• Operators research and development labs

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Examples of foreign investments in technology
? Accenture ? Atmel ? Bellnet ? CSR ? Cambridge
Silicon Radio ? Cap Gemini ? Cisco ? Comba
Telecom ? Compaq ? EDS ? Electronic Arts ? HP ?
Huawei Technologies ? Finisar Corporation ?
Flextronics ? Ford PAG ? IBM ? Infineon ? Intel ?
Infosys Technologies ? Linksys ? LG ? Matsushita
? MIC ? Microsoft ? Motorola ? National
Semiconductor ? Nortel Networks ? Nokia ? NTT ?
DoCoMo ? Philips ? RSA Security ? Samsung ?
Sasken ? Sharp ? Siemens ? SIRF ? Shyam ? Sony ?
Sun ? Microsystems ? Sybase ? Symantec ? VIA
Technologies ?Yokogawa Electric ? Vodafone ? Zi
Corp ? ZTE Corporation
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Recent acquisitions in Sweden

• Video conferencing Google acquires Marratech
• Data mining Tibco acquires Spotfire
• Statistics viewer Google acquires
  Gapminder/Trendalyzer
• Navigation/software GPS Cambridge Silicon Radio
  acquires Nordnav
• Mobile Social Software Yahoo acquires Kenet
  Works
• Mobile security Checkpoint acquires Protect
  Data/Pointsec
• IMS/SIP Oracle acquires Hotsip
• Open source set-top box for IP video Motorola
  acquires Kreatel
• Cable operator Comhem acquired by Carlyle
  Providence Group
• Business Intelligence Jerusalem Ventures
  invests in QlikTech
• Gaming Electronic Arts finalizes its
  acquisition of Digital Illusions (DICE)
• IPTV Amadeus (UK) invests in Edgeware
• Embedded security Interpeak is acquired by
  WindRiver
• System Integration WM-Data (Nordic Top 2)
  acquired by LogicaCMG
• Parlay BEA acquires Incomit
• Online auction eBay acquires Tradera
• Gaming Ageia acquires Meqon
• ERP Lawson acquires Intentia
• Gambling Ongame acquired by Betandwin

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Red Herring Awards Swedish companies always
amongst the 100 most promising start-ups

• 2007
• Rebtel, with bases in Stockholm and Luxembourg,
  was named for its service that allows people to
  make cut-price mobile-to-mobile calls (1 USD/week
  unlimited international calls)
• Stockholm-based Packetfront was named for its
  broadband technology to allow triple-play
• Nanoradio, which develops small w-lan chips for
  mobile devices
• Malmö-based Polar Rose, which has developed
  technology for face-recognition in digital photos
• 2006
• MySQL, Cypak, Hotsip, Operax, Transmode

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Six technology areas shaping the future
INTERNET BAYInternet distance spanning
applications Distance-spanning technology and
mobile applications, testing of mobile commerce,
Internet Protocol com-munication and packet
processing software
HOME COM Home communications Communications
technology and system development, home
communication, microelectronics
MOBILE VALLEYWireless technology, mobile
applications and services Worlds leading center
for wireless technology development
TELEMATICS VALLEY Telematics Telematics and
vehicle technology
ÖRESUND IT Human technology Cognitive research
and man-machine interface and user-friendly
design, bioinformatics and applied ICT within
life and bio sciences.
TELECOM CITY Telecommunications mobile
applications Test platform for wireless services
and products
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Prominent Swedish ICT research institutes
SICT Swedish ICT research
Hardware electronics
Software, applications mobility
ACREO
SICS
Viktoria Institute
Interactive Institute
St Anna IT Reseach Institute
Wireless technologies, infrastructure,
applications business models
Wireless_at_KTH
CDT Center for Distance-Spanning Technologies
Living Labs coordination, user experience testing
internationally
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Strong research and innovation environments

• Next Generation Innovative Logistics Ngil, Lund
  UniversityProvides knowledge, methods,
  techniques and tools for companies and
  organizations to increase supply chain visibility
  and to manage deviation in logistics systems.
• Chase (Antennas), ChalmersCovers the research
  areas within antennas, signals, systems,
  electromagnetic computations, medical engineering
  and biological effects of microwaves.
• Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University in
  KistaIncludes research on consumer-oriented
  mobile and ubiquitous services spanning all areas
  from entertainment and socialization to work and
  society.
• Centre for Sustainable Communications, KTH Royal
  Institute of Technology Develop innovative
  applications of media and communications
  technologies that can contribute, to sustainable
  development. Will also develop innovative
  useroriented services, products, environments,
  business models, methods and tools.

Source Vinnova Swedish Governmental Agency
for Innovation Systems
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Strong research and innovation environments II

• Uppsala Center for Wireless Sensor Networks
  (WISENET), Uppsala UniversityMiniaturisation of
  sensor nodes, develop energy systems, and make
  nodes secure, endurant, self-configuring and
  available over Internet.
• GigaHertz Centrum, Chalmers,GöteborgBring
  scientific advances aimed for future wireless
  communication and sensor technologies faster to
  industrial prototyping and exploitation.
• Ipack Center, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  Establish collaborations between Swedish forest
  products industry, electronics industry and
  bio-medical industry, in area of intelligent
  paper and packaging for biomedical applications.
  The center will develop core technologies for
  heterogeneous integration of bio-medical sensors,
  energy supplies, computing and wireless
  communications on fiber-based packaging and
  paper-boards, for innovative products such as
  smart bio-paper, intelligent pharmaceutical
  packaging and storage, intelligent patient
  monitoring devices.

Source Vinnova Swedish Governmental Agency
for Innovation Systems
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Strong research and innovation environments III

• ProcessIT Innovations, Luleå/UmeåContributes to
  the creation and growth of companies by
  developing new products and services based on the
  needs list maintained by the process- and
  manufacturing industry.
• Fiber Optics Valley, HudiksvallAn arena for
  development and test of broadband techniques and
  e-services that offers a unique business network
  of partners and a close collaboration with
  researchers within the academic world. Three
  arenas Fiber  to the Home (FTTH) E-services and
  Fiber Optics Industrial Applications (FIA)
• Hälsans nya verktyg - New tools for health,
  Norrköping/LinköpingThe focus is on health and
  health related business.
• Robotdalen, Mälardalen To strengthen its
  position as a world leader in the manufacturing,
  research and development of robot-based
  automation within four areas Industrial
  Robotics, Field Robotics, Health Robotics and
  Logistics Automation

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Cost-of-living index for major cities2007,
ranking and cost index (incl. housing) New York
index 100
Source Mercer Human Resources, 2007. Cost of a
basket of over 200 items in each location,
including housing
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Total occupancy costs2007, per workstation per
annum, USD
Source DTZ, Global Occupancy Costs survey, 2007
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Remuneration of engineers2006, total annual base
salary bonuses and incentives, 1000 US
Source IMD, 2007