Business Region Göteborg CLUSTER ANALYSIS ENERGY SWEDEN IS # 1 at INNOVATION
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Business Region Göteborg CLUSTER ANALYSIS ENERGY SWEDEN IS # 1 AT INNOVATION Sweden Denmark Finland Netherlands • Sweden is the most innovative country in the EU Source: European Innovation Scoreboard 2017 (EIS) United Kingdom Luxembourg • The Gothenburg region is the innovation leader Germany Belgium among 220 regions in Europe (European Commission – Regional Innovation Scoreboard 2017 (RIS)) Ireland Austria • Sweden is ranked 1st out of 157 countries in the France UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Index EU Average Source: Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Index and Dashboards Slovenia 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 Value for the selected indicator Performance Group EU Average Strong Innovator Innovation Leader GLOBAL CHALLENGES AND TRENDS • Global transition to renewable fuels from fossil fuels. – Solar power and wind power are more profitable than coal • Energy is also an important building block in urban development – Globally increasing urbanisation – Transformation of the transport sector • Energy more digitalised • Production and consumption are more distributed (e.g. with solar cells on own roofs) • More democratised ENERGY COMPANY ECOSYSTEM IN THE GOTHENBURG REGION NATIONAL & REGIONAL AUTHORITIES • Region Västra Götaland RESEARCH, DEMONSTRATION • Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional & TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT Growth • RISE Research Institutes of Sweden • Swedish Agency for Marine and Water • Swerea IVF Management • IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute • County Administrative Board /Svenska Miljöinstitutet • Business Region Göteborg • Swedish Work Environment Authority • Swedish Transport Administration ENERGY FINANCE AND CAPITAL COMPANY EDUCATION & RESEARCH • Public venture capital (ALMI Väst & Invest) • Chalmers University of Technology • Regional funding (region Västra Götaland) • University of Gothenburg • Angel investor network (Connect Väst) • Gothenburg Centre for Sustainable • AP6 Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund Development, GMV • Venture cup • Backstage Invest • Volvo Group Venture Capital • Connect Väst ENERGY COMPANY ECOSYSTEM IN THE GOTHENBURG REGION NETWORKS TESTBEDS • Celsius City • HSB Living Lab • CSR Västsverige • River City as a testbed • Ekocentrum • CLEANING INNOVATIONS • Energy Efficiency Network • Sensors and sorting for Innovative recycling • GAME – Göteborg Action for (Sensore) Management of the Environment • Pipe Centre • GreenUps • Recycling of plastics • NMC The Swedish Association for Sustainable • Sharing City Gothenburg Business • Stadslandet • Swedish Life Cycle Center • Power Väst • Find out more: www.businessregiongoteborg.se/ natverkochmotesplatser ENERGY COMPANIES SCIENCE PARKS SUPPORT & COLLABORATION & INCUBATORS ORGANISATIONS • GU Ventures • Almi Väst • Chalmers Ventures • Business Region Göteborg • Framtidens företag • Re:source SIP • Lindholmen Science Park • Waste Refinery (RISE) • Johanneberg Science Park • Swedish Exhibition and Congress Centre • Sustainable Development West • Industriell Dynamik • Enterprise Europe Network • YESBOX MEETING PLACES & TRADE FAIRS BIOGAS VÄST POWERT VÄST @ CHALMERS Sol i Väst and Power Väst are networks for biogas, Power Väst @ Chalmers addresses topical issues solar power and wind power run by Hållbar Utveckling i in the wind power industry. Has a presence in Väst and Innovatum on behalf of Region Västra national politics. Götaland. Annually in January at Chalmers http://hallbarutvecklingvast.se/projekt/biogas-vast JOHANNEBERG SCIENCE PARK Johanneberg Science Park runs Celsius 2.0 (district heating/cooling) on behalf if the City of Gothenburg together with RISE and the European trade association Euroheat & Power. https://www.johannebergsciencepark.com ELFACK Elfack is the largest trade fair for the power, installation and lighting industries, and is held at the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre in Gothenburg every odd- numbered year. Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre, Gothenburg – 7-13 May 2019 https://elfack.com STARTUPS Energy Data & Visualisation Gas Technology Solar Cell Technology Company: Metry Company: Eliq Company: Meva Energy Company: Biofrigas Company: Swedish Algae Factory Company: Epishine https://metry.io/sv/ https://eliq.io http://mevaenergy.com http://biofrigas.se http://swedishalgaefactory.com https://epishine.se Wind Power Marine Energy Company: Greenbyte Company: Modvion Company: Minesto Company: Waves4power Company: SeaTwirl https://www.greenbyte.com https://www.modvion.com https://www.minesto.com https://www.waves4power.com https://seatwirl.com/sv/ DISTINCT TO GOTHENBURG • Complete energy clusters with power generation • Unique number of alternative fuel productions: from wind, water, nuclear power and biofuel Everything from pine oil to bioethanol. production for use in transport solutions and a growing subcontracting segment. • Innovative capacity is substantial along the whole chain – from production through to distribution to • World-leading district heating grid and one of the usage. world’s most efficient energy recovery systems. • The proximity to both the ICT and transport • Sweden’s largest photovoltaic power stations are industries in the region acts as a boost for located in the region. innovation, which leads to a multitude of sustainable initiatives for traffic on land, sea and air. • Extensive research and development into the electrification of the automotive sector. • West Sweden has the largest wind power installation in the country. The majority of biofuel • Extensive investments into wind power and biogas. production in Sweden takes place in the region. 20 LARGEST COMPANIES (2016) COMPANY EMPLOYEES SKF 1,372 Göteborg Energi 837 Aktiebolaget SKF 613 Preem AB 332 COOR Service Management AB 321 Rosemount Tank Radar AB 305 Bravida Sverige AB 270 Assemblin El AB 224 St1 Refinery AB 206 SWECO Industry AB 145 Sector Alarm Service AB 142 Rejlers Sverige AB 130 Bengt Dahlgren Göteborg AB 126 NKC Manufacturing Sweden AB 121 Kungälvs Rörläggeri AB 112 Midroc Electro 109 Mölndal Energi AB 99 Sigma Energy & Marine AB 93 Bäck Installation AB 85 Unfors RaySafe AB 80 QUICK FACTS ENERGY GOTHENBURG – SEGMENT • West Sweden has developed SERVICES considerably with regard to renewable fuels, e.g. Preem, Perstorp and ST1, and biogas in general FUEL • World-leading in district heating/cooling, which spills over to energy services for HEAT the property sector and in subcontracting. • High ambitions in the power segment with NATURAL GAS measurement services, charging AND BIOGAS infrastructure and local energy markets integrated with heating and cooling. ELECTRICITY SUBCONTRACTOR Figure 1. The biggest companies in each Environmental Technology category in 2016 ENERGY CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT 2008 2012 2016 VALUE ADDED VALUE ADDED VALUE ADDED SEK 15.1 SEK 13.6 SEK 15.0 billion billion billion ESTABLISHMENTS ESTABLISHMENTS ESTABLISHMENTS 324 347 366 NUMBER OF NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES EMPLOYEES 10,860 10,645 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 11,309 * Value added adjusted for inflation DEVELOPMENT IN THE DIFFERENT SEGMENTS • Total value added has increased in three segments: Services, Fuel and Heating • Total value added has decreased in the Electricity, Bio & Natural segment as well as in subcontracting. TOTAL VALUE ADDED PER CATEGORY (SEK THOUSANDS) 9000 8000 7000 6000 NUMBER OF COMPANIES 5000 IN DIFFERENT CATEGORIES IN 4000 ENERGY CLUSTER 3000 2000 1000 0 Services: 81 Fuel: 9 2008 2012 2016 Heat: 277 Electricity: 12 Conclusion of total value added over the 2008-2016 period. Data includes all the companies in the cluster Natural and biogas: 1 Subcontractors: 33 (including those with fewer than 5 employees in the company) and do not equal to the total value added in Table 1 because there are some companies in the cluster that are divided into segments. METHOD PAGE Mapping of environmental technology companies in the Gothenburg region carried out by Hifab on behalf of Business Region Göteborg. The Energy Industry 2007-2014 study, Companies in the Energy Industry 2007-2011 study (both conducted by Vinnova), and the Companies in the Environmental Technology Sector 2007-2011 study carried out by IVL, Sustainable Business Hub in Malmö and the consultancy companies Addendi and Okatima in collaboration with VINNOVA, formed the basis of the mapping. The SNI codes used resulted in the inclusion of several installation companies with a sole focus on plumbing. These companies have been removed from the mapping. Companies have also been added manually if they operate within the energy industry but have not been categorised according to the SNI codes we utilised. To establish the selection of companies, companies that did not have five or more employees in one of the years studied (2008, 2012, 2016) have been omitted. The reason being is that very small companies often do not have websites, which makes it difficult to determine the orientation of operations. The companies in the study are based on the companies’ establishments in the Gothenburg region. Other figures, such as turnover, are region specific (if 50% of the employees work in the region, then 50% of the turnover was included). In this report we also refer to other mapping carried out which does not include the same selection of companies as selected in our own mapping. The following SNI codes have been included: Industry: 28130, 28140, 28150, 28210 Energy: 35110, 35130, 35140, 35210, 35220, 35300, 36001, 36002 Technical consultants: 71123, 71124.