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  • Sitra headquarters, Helsinki

    01Sitra headquarters, Helsinki

  • Solar collectors from ED70 CIEMAT installation, ClimateWell

    02Solar collectors from ED70 CIEMAT installation, ClimateWell

  • Jesper Christiansen, business PhD, anthropologist

    03Jesper Christiansen, business PhD, anthropologist

  • The Mind at Mindlab

    04The Mind at Mindlab

  • Project managers Runa Sabroe and Jakob Schjørring

    05Project managers Runa Sabroe and Jakob Schjørring

  • Mindlab coatrack

    06Mindlab coatrack

  • Workspace at Mindlab

    07Workspace at Mindlab

  • Anette Væring, designer, in The Mind

    08Anette Væring, designer, in The Mind

  • Rasmus Kolding, editing video

    09Rasmus Kolding, editing video

  • Map of Mindlab’s global network

    10Map of Mindlab’s global network

  • Mikko Kosonen – president of Sitra

    11Mikko Kosonen – president of Sitra

  • Sitra’s Low2No construction site

    12Sitra’s Low2No construction site

  • Sitra, Helsinki: office view

    13Sitra, Helsinki: office view

  • Balcony at Vinnova HQ in Stockholm

    14Balcony at Vinnova HQ in Stockholm

  • General director of Vinnova, Charlotte Brogren

    15General director of Vinnova, Charlotte Brogren

  • The international office, Vinnova

    16The international office, Vinnova

  • A selection of Vinnova’s reports

    17A selection of Vinnova’s reports

Sitra: five projects

  1. In constructing its new HQ, Sitra is redefining sustainable urban development. The Low2No project blazes a trail for carbon-neutral building.
  2. Sitra’s response to looking after Finland’s ageing population is a pilot project with an elderly care home in Tampere, which brings together public, private and third-sector providers.
  3. Sitra runs executive-development courses, assembles Finland’s top 200 decision makers to discuss national challenges, and holds “studios” to generate solutions.
  4. Working alongside Finland’s 342 municipalities, Sitra has developed a single ICT platform, ending highly expensive duplication.
  5. In 2009, Sitra began piloting “health kiosks” to offer low-threshold primary healthcare services in accessible places such as shopping malls.

Vinnova: five projects

  1. Traffic safety research. Swedish research and development has led to many successful products and services, saving lives.
  2. The Maxfas material. This new material conducts electricity and can replace gold in the manufacturing of electronic components.
  3. ClimateWell. An internationally successful solar-powered heating-pump system.
  4. The Peepoo bag. A single-use personal toilet that is self-sanitising and biodegradable. First launch project is currently underway in Kibera, Kenya.
  5. Eye-controlled computer monitor systems developed by a firm called Tobii. Developed for disabled people, it can also be used to analyse the way people look at adverts or websites.

Mindlab: five projects

  1. Mindlab helped show Denmark’s National Board of Industrial Injuries that its processes made people feel worse, not better. Services were thus redesigned around the feedback provided by industrial-injury victims.
  2. Why don’t young, tech-savvy Danes do their taxes online? Mindlab discovered the Ministry of Taxation’s website confused young users, so it designed a simplified version.
  3. Denmark’s regional business incubators spur growth by providing guidance. Mindlab helped one underperforming incubator to redesign its engagement with clients. Satisfaction soared, and the new model has since been adopted nationally.
  4. Denmark needs skilled foreign professionals, but retaining expats isn’t easy. Mindlab helped develop the first social network for them, helping them settle.
  5. Mindlab’s “Regulation Hunters” try to identify irritating burdens faced by companies. The aim is to reduce red tape, giving firms more time to run their businesses.

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