Did you know that Sweden is the largest buyer of tulips and one of the largest buyers of fresh cut roses in the world, counted per capita? This time of year we buy around two million tulips daily in Scandinavia and on Valentines Day we will buy some 6 million roses here in Scandinavia. So […]
Unicef Innovation, another good model for social entrepreneurship
We can read about UNICEF Venture Capital Fund last week that will help identify and develop innovations that benefit children in developing countries. It is called UNICEF Innovation and has made some interesting investments already such as 9needs (South Africa), Mpower (Bangladesh), Innovation for Poverty Alleviation Lab (Pakistan) and Chatterbox (Cambodia). Right now UNICEF Innovation […]
What you need to know before recruiting in Sweden
According to US News the best country to have citizenship in is Sweden but when considering not only citizenship but also cultural influence, entrepreneurship, heritage, “movers”, open for business, power and quality of life US News rank Sweden 5th in the World, Germany number 1. This is only one report and there are others that give us better […]
Stockholm welcomes new IT Companies as the economy is stronger than ever before, time to invest!
If you are in IT, software, hardware or services Stockholm and Sweden are the place to be right now. Today Stockholm Chamber of Commerce releases some statistics and the economic indicator for the third quarter of 2016 increased from 100.8 to 102.5. That shows the economy is stronger than normal and is growing more than […]
It is about ecological and fair traded
We are a business consulting firm and work with international business development. Most of our work have been within high-tech but we also work with traditional retail and agricultural. Next week we will attend Inclusive Business Forum taking place in Stockholm on October 20th. We will listen to people talking about opportunities and challenges in […]
Many sustainable opportunities like honey in Africa
As we do business in East Africa we see many interesting business opportunities but also problem for developing different businesses, especially in agricultural and retail sector. Here in Sweden we see we are importing honey that is Fairtrade certified and mixed by different companies so it is not honey from the same source or even […]
Important to follow ICT developments in both East and West Africa
We here in Scandinavia rely a lot on information technology and digital services. It is an important part of your economy and infrastructure. That is also a reason we are leading within R&D and create many new innovations. We here in Scandinavia are very early adapters to new technology but we also need to export […]
Sustainable housing for many, Sweden now build 6 floor high mulihome building all in wooden
Västerås is a nice medium size city in Sweden some 1.5 hour drive from Stockholm. We can today read from a press release that the building company Mimer has today announced they have started to give out keys to the first customers who are ready to move in to Västerås highest wooden houses that have […]
ICT & Healthcare opportunities in Africa
We here in Scandinavia have many interesting and innovative companies offering IT and healthcare solutions, sometimes in the form of medical devices or digital solutions, so called D-Health solution. Africa is developing fast but also face healthcare challenges. As we have travelled in both South East Asia and in Africa we can see needs for more […]
Mobiles and broadband boom in Africa
Mobile phone sales and access to mobile broadband and internet are really booming and growing in a very rapid rate in many parts of Africa. Today we can read in New Times Rwanda that mobile phone subscribers in June went up to 8.9 million users of a population of close to 12 million. TIGO (part […]