Sven Gunnar Edlund

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During 2004-2009 Sven Gunnar Edlund was Director and Head of the Innovation Actors Division at VINNOVA, The Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems. Edlunds responsibility has been to support the development of internationally competitive research and innovation environments in Sweden, internationally competitive clusters, commercialization of research and growth in SMEs. The design of the cluster program VINNVÄXT was done under Edlunds leadership.

Sven Gunnar Edlund is today working as Senior Advisor within VINNOVA. One of Edlunds responsibilities is to be one of the coordinators of Priority area 7, Research and Innovation, within the Baltic Sea Strategy Action plan. As Senior Advisor Edlund also supports VINNOVA in its leadership of the Flagship project on Research and Innovation, Transnational Clusters and SME networks within The Baltic Sea Strategy Action plan.

Edlund, being a physicist from The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, has
had a long career in research and innovation at The Swedish Pulp and Paper Research Institute in Stockholm, including, during 15 years (1979 -1994), holding the position as Director of Research and Head of the Physics Division.