Swebo Bioenergy, a bioenergy company from Luleå, a city close to the Arctic Circle, has set up shop in the U.S. “We have 15 systems under installation in New England, and we see an increasing demand for our technology,”...
Swebo Bioenergy, a bioenergy company from Luleå, a city close to the Arctic Circle, has set up shop in the U.S. “We have 15 systems under installation in New England, and we see an increasing demand for our technology,”...
Lars H. Ottoson passed away on April 4. I never met him but enjoyed reading his lively columns in Nordstjernan. Lars was a veteran journalist and entrepreneur as well as an early contributor to Currents. He was born in...
When I was a boy, John Ericsson (1803–1889) was an almost iconic figure—streets and buildings bore his name, and monuments and statues lauded him as a famous inventor. But it took me a while to discover him, because my...
SACC-USA took part in two clean-tech seminars in Sweden on March 25th and 26th, one in Gothenburg and one in Stockholm. The first seminar was held in cooperation with Business Region Gothenburg, Region Västra Götaland, and Ecoex, a greentech...
Sweden ranks as the world's most networked economy in The Global Information Technology Report 2009–2010, a new report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) in partnership with the French business school INSEAD. Singapore came in as no. 2,...
The two part-Swedish, part-American automakers Volvo and Saab are returning to life after a couple of crisis years when it looked like their last chapter was being written. Saab Automobile's production lines in Trollhattan in western Sweden is now...
The Swedish-American Green Alliance (S.A.G.A.) reports that two Swedish researchers – Ludvig Edman of Umeå University and Nathaniel Robinson of Linköping University – have teamed up with Rutgers University’s Manish Chhowalla to produce a new form of lighting. ...
FDA, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has granted Orphan Drug Designation for rhGAD65, the active ingredient of Diamyd, which is Diamyd Medical's lead drug candidate. FDA's decision allows the Swedish start-up company to sell the drug exclusively...
Volvo traditionally marketed itself as the safe choice, which is why the new "Naughty Volvo" campaign partially designed by Boston-based Arnold Worldwide is making a stir. But there are limits to Volvo's new naughtiness:
Markbygdens Wind Power, a private company (owned by Svevind Holdings and Enercom, a German manufacturer of wind turbines), plans to build a gaint wind power farm constisting of 1,101 windmills generating 12 terrawatthours of energy in a sparsely populated...
