What are politicians saying about the future of innovation policy?

With 100 days to go until the elections, Sweden’s Innovation Riksdag featured the launch of the Innovation Election Barometer, a political panel and ministerial visits.

– We may not always feel that our issues are at the top of the election agenda. At the same time, this is exactly what we gather around on Sweden’s Innovation Riksdag: how we create new jobs for the future, strengthen Sweden’s competitiveness and meet the climate challenges. The common denominator is ‘innovation’,” says Ellinor Bokedal, Head of Policy at SISP.

To get innovation policy higher on the agenda, Benjamin Dousa emphasised how innovation can sometimes be complex, but when it is communicated, for example, how many jobs it actually creates, it becomes clearer and reaches more people.

SISP has developed the innovation election barometer to clarify where Sweden’s parties stand on innovation issues. Read more and share further.

– Sweden will be the richest country in Europe in ten years. To make this possible, we need not only a better business climate, more innovations and less red tape, but also more companies that dare to take risks, said Benjamin Dousa, Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade (M).

What do the other parties think?

Read interviews with the Social Democrats, the Centre Party and the Sweden Democrats. Read all interviews here.