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IVA’s Gold Medal 2025: Mats Danielsson

With a background from CERN and Berkeley, Mats Danielsson has successfully combined cutting-edge research with technical innovation and entrepreneurship. Today he is a leading researcher and entrepreneur in medical imaging, whose work has had a strong impact both nationally and internationally – in healthcare as well as in industry.

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Published: 21 October 2025Last Updated: 21 October 2025
Mats Danielsson

IVA’s Great Gold Medal 2025: Carl-Henric Svanberg

For decades, Carl-Henric Svanberg has stood at the helm of some of Sweden’s – and the world’s – most successful industrial companies. With a rare blend of technical insight, business acumen and strong communication, he has helped shape Assa Abloy, Ericsson, BP and Volvo into global market leaders.

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Published: 21 October 2025Last Updated: 21 October 2025
Carl-Henric Svanberg

Minalyze awarded for smart digitalization of the mining industry

Minalyze wins IVA's Smart Industry 2023 Business Competition. The company has developed advanced digital technologies as a basis for a world-unique offering that strengthens the mining industry's ability to collect and visualize geological data.

Digitalisation
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Published: 11 October 2023Last Updated: 23 May 2024

IVA’s Gold Medal 2023: Annica Bresky – innovation leader with the forest as a tool

Civil engineer Annica Bresky, supported by her personal motto "The future grows in the forest", has led the development towards making the forest industry an important part of the solution to fighting climate change and strengthening biological diversity.

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Published: 26 September 2023Last Updated: 26 September 2023

Astronaut Marcus Wandt, one of this year's Thulin medallists

The Aviation and Aerospace Engineering Association (FTF) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) have awarded this year's Thulin Gold Medal to Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt. Engineers Daniel Eckerström and Roy Kihlén are awarded silver medals for their efforts in the development of fiber optic temperature measurement systems, which have contributed to increasing safety in civil aviation.

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Published: 28 March 2024Last Updated: 02 April 2024

AI in focus when IVA delegation visits Silicon Valley

A delegation from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) visits Silicon Valley on February 19–22. Parts of the visit take place in the presence of DD.KK.HH. The Crown Princess and Prince Daniel. The goal is to increase cooperation opportunities between Silicon Valley and Sweden and, by extension, strengthen Sweden's position in digitization and AI.

Digitalisation
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Published: 16 February 2024Last Updated: 16 February 2024

New list: research projects with high potential for business and societal benefit

The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) is now presenting this year's 100 list of research projects deemed to have great potential to benefit through commercialization, business and method development or societal impact. The focus is on technology in the service of humanity.

Research & Innovation
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Published: 10 May 2022Last Updated: 29 June 2023

"Sweden and the EU need to invest more in AI"

In order for Sweden to be able to maintain its competitiveness in the future, we need to invest more in AI development and innovation. This insight was reinforced for IVA's Chair Marcus Wallenberg, who led IVA's delegation trip to Silicon Valley, where around thirty people from industry, startups, investors, academia and the public sector participated, in the presence of The Crown Princess and Prince Daniel, as well as Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Johan Forssell.

Digitalisation
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Entrepreneurship
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Published: 12 March 2024Last Updated: 02 April 2024
Delegation outdoors in Palo Alto

A Tribute to the Memory of Victor & Erna Hasselblad

The images of man's first steps on the moon in 1969 are among the most iconic in the history of photography. The moment was immortalized with a "Hasselblad", a Swedish technical innovation whose name subsequently became more or less synonymous with the concept of the world's best camera.

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Published: 03 November 2023Last Updated: 07 November 2023

IVA Fellow Anne L'Huillier awarded Nobel Prize

IVA Fellow Anne L'Huillier is awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”. Anne L'Huillier, Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) since 2012, shares this year's Nobel Prize with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz.

Research & Innovation
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Published: 03 October 2023Last Updated: 03 October 2023

An evening to celebrate the art of engineering sciences

During IVA's 104th Annual Meeting, more than 600 guests gathered in Stockholm's city hall to celebrate the art of engineering sciences. We welcomed new fellows, awarded gold medals and listened to the President's address Progress in Research and Technology.

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Published: 01 November 2023Last Updated: 07 November 2023

IVA’s Gold Medal 2022: Victoria van Camp – an innovator for sustainable industry

Victoria van Camp, who holds a Master’s in mechanical engineering and a PhD in machine elements, is a business leader from Kalix whose career has seen her become an inspirational powerhouse in the drive to transform Swedish industry for a sustainable future.

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Published: 22 September 2022Last Updated: 28 June 2023
HM The King presents the Gold Medal to Victoria van Camp

IVA's 100 List 2023: Swedish innovations with great potential

A new environmentally friendly light source that can complement and in some cases replace LED lights, automatic AI monitoring of train tracks and an innovative solution for sampling in case of sepsis. These are examples of some of the research projects that have been selected for this year's 100 list.

Research & Innovation
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Published: 10 May 2023Last Updated: 29 June 2023

IVA project expands collaboration between South Korea and Sweden

On 19-20 April, the 2023 Korea-Sweden R2B Forum will be held in South Korea's capital Seoul, a brand new meeting place for the utilisation and commercialisation of research in collaboration between Sweden's and South Korea's innovation systems. The concept is inspired by IVA's Research2Business initiative and IVA's 100 list, and IVA participates as a partner in the forum.

Research & Innovation
Entrepreneurship
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Published: 16 March 2023Last Updated: 24 May 2024

IVA i Almedalen

IVAs vd, policychef och pressansvariga är på plats i Visby under Almedalsveckan för att delta i och bidra till viktiga diskussioner om Sveriges framtid. Vårt fokus är som alltid på att bygga broar mellan akademi, näringsliv och politik och verka för människans förmåga att bidra positivt till samhället genom teknisk och ekonomisk vetenskap.

Digitalisation
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Skills Supply
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Published: 13 June 2025Last Updated: 30 June 2025
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Teknikskiften och den gröna omställningen

IVA:s vd Sylvia Schwaag Serger medverkar i Sveriges Radios Ekonomiekot Extra och diskuterar teknikskiften och den gröna omställningen. Hon betonar att historien lär oss att omställningar kräver tålamod och uthållighet – och att de sällan följer det tempo man förväntar sig, vare sig det går snabbare eller långsammare än väntat.

Energy & Resources
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Published: 21 April 2026Last Updated: 21 April 2026
SR Ekonomiekot

Hur kan Kina ha skaffat sig sådant försprång i teknikutvecklingen?

IVAs vd Sylvia Schwaag Serger medverkar i podden En AI till kaffet. I avsnittet pratar hon om varför AI och robotik nu blivit avgörande för ekonomisk styrka och geopolitisk position.

Digitalisation
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Published: 16 April 2026Last Updated: 16 April 2026
Sylvia Schwaag Serger och Marcus Weiland

”Jag tror att Sverige saknar en känsla för hur bråttom det här är.”

IVAs vd Sylvia Schwaag Serger intervjuas av Dagens industri om de mångmiljard­investeringar som svenska staten nu gör i försvarsindustrin.

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Published: 16 March 2026Last Updated: 16 March 2026

"Europa är inte längre automatiskt i täten"

I en intervju med den österrikiska näringslivstidningen Selektiv resonerar IVAs vd Sylvia Schwaag Serger om varför Europa riskerar att halka efter i den globala innovationskapplöpningen. Hon efterlyser djärvare framtidsvisioner och ett nytt sätt att tänka kring prioritering, innovation och europeisk konkurrenskraft.

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Published: 17 April 2026Last Updated: 17 April 2026
Sylvia Schwaag Serger

Radiokorrespondenterna Kina med Sylvia Schwaag Serger

IVAs vd, professor Sylvia Schwaag Serger intervjuas i Radiokorrespondenterna om vad energikrisen, till följd av kriget i mellanöstern, kan innebära för Kina.

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Published: 16 March 2026Last Updated: 16 March 2026