type: government agency
location: Stockholm, Sweden
WWW: www.vinnova.se
VINNOVA (The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems) is a State authority that aims to promote growth and prosperity throughout Sweden. Their particular area of responsibility comprises innovations linked to research and development. Their tasks are to fund the needs-driven research required by a competitive business and industrial sector and a flourishing society, and to strengthen the networks that are such a necessary part of this work.