The next SACC Entrepreneurial Days conference will start in Växjö on September 14th 2011, and then split up in two parallel events. “We will highlight entrepreneurship and sustainability, but we also want to make the connection between Sweden, Asia...
Sweden is ranked as the top European innovator, but there is more innovation than business, says Gregory Carson, a lecturer at the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE) at Gothenburg University’s School of Business, and a principal at Ocean...
If Stieg Larsson painted a decidedly dark picture of women's lot in Sweden, most Americans face another country altogether when they pick up their newspaper, read online or watch TV. Here they will meet Sweden as a stand-in utopia...
Joakim Leijon was sent to New York to set up shop for a Pronto Communications, a Swedish PR agency specializing in “word-of-mouth” marketing. He arrived with his girlfriend, found an apartment, signed a two-year lease and then poof –...
The Swedish entrepreneur Peter S. Magnusson, who in February sold Virtutech to Intel’s subsidiary Wind River Systems, has joined Google. He will become engineering director at the search giant's headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
"Both the Volvo Group and Volvo Trucks have a strong presence in the U.S., and I personally believe strongly in developing our relations with North America,” says Staffan Jufors, CEO of Volvo Trucks Corporation, which is the world’s second...
Doreen Mogavero 19 began as a teletypist at the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) and joined the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at 25. She will participate in a key panel about the global financial crisis at Edays in Gothenburg....
(Updated Oct 7, 2010) “It will be our best Edays ever,” says Gunilla Girardo, who leads the preparations for SACC-USA’s annual business matchmaking event and conference. Hundreds of Swedish and American businesspeople will meet in Gothenburg to network and...
22 American business school students recently visited Sweden as the last leg of a course where they worked closely with five green-tech companies, selected in collaboration with SACC-USA. ”It was my best experience from my first year in the...
A delegation of American venture capitalists is expected to arrive in Sweden in early November, just in time to participate in SACC-USA's Edays event in Gothenburg November 8-10. "It is the first time the department is convening a VC...
