Strategic research agenda welfare technology

Purpose and goal:

Clarify what efforts, resources and infrastructures are required to meet societal challenges using welfare technology, and what is required to improve the opportunities to strengthen competitiveness and sustainable growth.

Achieved a mobilization of actors within the area and created a joint strategy in the form of an innovation agenda, which also forms the basis for future efforts. Achieved through: Gathering of forces of approx. 100 Swedish actors

Developed a strategic innovation agenda - joint action plan with proposals for efforts, resources and necessary infrastructure. Expected results and effects: The agenda and the mobilization of actors have updated impact goals:

- Welfare technology in care and social care to be used more than today, to increase quality and provide more efficient working methods and improved work environment - Elderly and individuals with functional impairments get a better quality of life

- Swedish companies strengthen their competitiveness and increase growth. Sweden is positioned as a country that is at the forefront of developing and introducing welfare technology - The welfare sector´s resources are redistributed to be able to offer sustainable support Approach and implementation:

Implementation: 1 Market research and actor mapping

2 Dialogue and input from approx. 100 actors (mobilization) operating in the field of welfare technology: business, regions and municipalities, civil society and interest organisations, authorities and academia, through workshops, interviews, conversations, surveys and questionnaires

3 The innovation agenda is a analysis, synthesis and compilation of the participants´ insights, experiences and input. It is reinforced with additional information from relevant authority reports Great engagement with great breadth!