🇸🇪 SWEDEN 1. 🇸🇪 Volvo FH Aero Electric – Long-Range Heavy Electric Truck A new battery electric truck with up to ~600 km range and fast charging using MCS standard, designed for long...
When Finland’s VTT Technical Research Centre and Dutch‑Nordic startup Time‑Travelling Milkman (TTM) quietly announced a new collaboration to turn sunflower sidestreams into premium plant...
In 2024, a Helsinki team of Varjo alumni quietly re‑emerged with an audacious promise: render true 3D mixed reality on any transparent surface, no helmet, no glasses, by generating a synthetic...
Helsinki‑based Gosta Labs is positioning itself as a “trusted AI operating system” for healthcare, automating documentation, structuring clinical data in real time, and supporting complex...
Among the world’s harshest, most unpredictable climates, the Nordic countries have quietly become global leaders in autonomous mobility. Snowstorms, freezing rain, dense fog, Arctic‑circle...
Perfat Technologies (Finland) is commercialising a fibre‑reinforced oleogel platform that turns healthy, unsaturated vegetable oils into solid, functional fats designed to replace butter,...
Europe’s defence landscape is shifting at unprecedented speed. The combination of an increasingly volatile strategic environment, NATO’s renewed focus on autonomous systems, and the EU’s quest...
In the Nordics, where medtech innovation often emerges from tight collaborations between universities, hospitals, and deep‑tech investors, few companies have captured attention as rapidly as...
European coastal ecosystems are facing unprecedented pressure from pollution, overexploitation, and climate change. A major international effort—Climarest—is now working to reverse this decline,...
Patria’s TrackX is a clean‑sheet, two‑track, amphibious, light armoured carrier born from Europe’s FAMOUS programme to restore extreme‑terrain mobility to land forces. The baseline...
The world’s heating systems (industrial kilns, district energy plants, large commercial buildings) sit at the centre of a stubborn climate challenge. Electrification through heat pumps will carry...
Across Europe’s northeastern flank, a new kind of border infrastructure is taking shape. Less concrete and concertina wire, more antennas and algorithms, it is designed to surveil and tame the...
Nordic startups like to say they “build for the long term.” The real test is whether that conviction survives the pressures of the seed stage: scarce resources, technical debt, shifting product...
From the Editor: “Countries like Finland (“Nokia-land”) keep producing top electronics engineers because they focus on making complex radio technology practical, efficient, and affordable....
Petteri Pulkkinen’s doctoral thesis at Aalto University tackles one of the most stubborn, high‑stakes problems in modern wireless: how to make radar and communications share spectrum, often the...
Sweden’s Everdrone has rapidly emerged as one of Europe’s most advanced developers of autonomous drone systems for emergency response and healthcare logistics. With a newly appointed Board of...
Kelluu, (Kelluu is Finnish for Floating) a Finnish startup based in Joensuu, claims to operate “the world’s largest airship fleet” to deliver persistent, high accuracy aerial data for defence,...
SINTEF’s latest research highlights three very different but equally forward‑looking innovation areas: maritime decarbonisation, digital fashion tools, and the future of heating systems....
Finland’s VTT Technical Research Centre continues to demonstrate why it remains one of Europe’s most influential applied‑science institutes. Recent announcements highlight breakthroughs in...
Your correspondent has just spent 7 days in Kenya and Zambia looking at many innovations in agriculture, farming & forestry that are supported by Nordic investors. In general, without...
Iceland’s unique geothermal resources and harsh climate have produced world‑leading innovations in controlled‑environment agriculture, soil restoration and circular bioeconomy systems. 1....
Norway’s rugged landscapes have driven world‑leading innovation in robotics, precision agriculture and sustainable livestock systems. 1. NIBIO Center for Precision Agriculture Norway’s...
Sweden is a global leader in precision forestry, robotics and climate‑smart food systems. Its innovation ecosystem blends world-class universities, state research bodies and fast-scaling agtech...
Finland continues to lead the Nordic region in climate‑smart agriculture, precision forestry and bioeconomy innovation. The country’s ecosystem blends state research institutes, universities,...
SUBMERSE’s audacious plan to turn the world’s seabed cables into a shared instrument, while governments race to keep their secrets hidden In the deep oceans, where visibility fades into...
As 2026 begins, the Nordic life science landscape is undergoing one of its most significant regulatory shake‑ups in a decade. Denmark, Sweden, and Finland — usually aligned in health ...
Can Mining Wastewater Become a Source of Rare Earths? A Pilot Study Says Yes - If We Control the Chemistry In brief Mining sites often discharge vast amounts of water that contain trace amounts...
Denmark has just reshaped the global obesity‑treatment landscape again. On January 5, Novo Nordisk announced the broad U.S. availability of the Wegovy® oral pill, the first and only oral GLP‑1...
Norway is proving once again that the future of offshore energy will be engineered in the North Sea. In early January, Equinor unveiled an ambitious, NOK 100 billion multi‑supplier program to...
In a move set to redefine intelligence gathering across Northern Europe, Finnish satellite manufacturer ICEYE has signed a multi‑year contract to deliver sovereign Synthetic Aperture Radar...
A Finnish startup says it has built a synthetic mind that learns and rewires itself like a brain; able to act proactively, remember permanently, and improve without retraining. The claims are bold....
The world’s first dynamic green‑ammonia plant is officially in operation, and it isn’t in Germany, China, or the United States. It’s in Denmark. In late December and entering global...
Over the last month, the Nordic region acted like a coordinated innovation engine, with each country advancing distinct, but strategically interlocking, technologies. Finland delivered the month’s...
Across the Nordic region, a powerful innovation trend is reshaping residential construction: industrialized wood‑based building systems combined with next‑generation low‑carbon materials and...
By Editor in Chief, Nicholas Anderson The second Trump administration has accelerated a structural shift in the global innovation landscape—one that Europe, and especially the Nordic region, must...
Sensofusion Oy, headquartered in Vantaa, Finland, has emerged as a global leader in autonomous drone detection and countermeasure technologies. Founded in 2014 by Tuomas Rasila, the company has...
Professor Timo Repo and Zahra Eshaghi Gorjin at the University of Helsinki are advancing the materials chemistry that underpins practical direct air capture (DAC). Their work does not claim to have...
Stay up to date with a few recent Nordic industrial and research innovations performed with partners in Europe, North America, and in Asia‑Pacific Region with a summarized comparison table giving...
In a recent paper published in Global Public Health, Chisom Udeze and Dr. Frode Eick challenge the very foundations of how we understand global development. Their argument is bold yet timely:...
