The journey to becoming a Scale-up City

The innovation ecosystems in Sweden are heavily supporting the startup phase with seed funds, business developers and technical labs support. However, the national export services, banks and venture capital are all expecting to work with midsized and fast growing companies. There is a gap o be filled between startup and scaleup, where the Valley of death is famous, where most startups die without ever reaching the larger markets. It is not the startups that will grow the economy, but the Scaleups. 

With the experience of 35 years of innovation and growth support, and being a Swedish science park, where the market in Sweden never is big enough for scaleup companies, Ideon Science Park has started the journey to become a scaleup city. The keys to scaling up being organisational and leadership knowledge, internationalization, funding opportunities, match making and furthermost customer insight and structured feed back loops.