Bron Innovation

Sweden: Central Norrland

Overview

Bron Innovation is a one-stop non-profit innovation hub with a clear vision to develop digital innovation, business and competence for our member organization, and provide digital competence in our region. It is a quadruple helix collaboration network for ICT and Digitalization; private companies, national agencies, regional authorities and municipalities as well as NGOs. Our members and their services are worldwide, however the office for Bron is based in the county of Västernorrland, Sweden. Our focus areas are Industrial Digitalization, Govtech, IoT, 5G and Digital information management services, in which we are running several types of projects and activities. In these areas we are open for international collaboration with other clusters around Europe and worldwide.

Bron is located at the strategic centre of the region’s development ecosystem. We work in close collaboration with university, R&D centres, science park, business incubators, industries and public sectors. It is regions biggest ICT cluster, certified by European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis, Berlin. At Bron we believe in sustainable networking and we maintain a diverse corporate network with partners and members from all sectors. We are devoted to increase knowledge and understanding of innovation and digitalization among wide range of industries, specially SMEs. We help SMEs in evaluation and profiling of their current organizational and operational status, in order to identify opportunities for development, growth and transformation. Then we offer direct coaching to create strategic plan to reach business transformation goals. We strive to find best digital solution providers who can implement the strategic plan. We assist member organizations to find and attract new employees with right competence. Bron is an agile organization, ready to adapt to new technologies. We are partner in regions first 5G infrastructure, which allows companies to step forward and test next generation technologies.

At Bron we regularly arrange seminars to promote innovative digital technologies. We also arrange workshops focusing on competence development in member organizations. We host northern Sweden’s biggest Hackathon to encourage creative and innovative ideas to solve problems in industry and society in general. One of the most important events for us is a yearly conference on industrial and public sector digitalization, which is successfully maintaining its reputation for over three decades and attracts people from across the nation. Digital technologies.

Sectors
Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products - Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products - Manufacture of electrical equipment - Manufacture of food products - Manufacture of beverages - Manufacture of tobacco products - Manufacture of paper and paper products - Printing and reproduction of recorded media - Manufacture of rubber and plastic products
Technology
Communication networks - Cyber physical systems - Internet of things - Big data, data analytics, data handling - Simulation, modelling and digital twins - Software as a service and service architectures - Cloud computing - Logistics - Internet services - New media technologies