Database of Swedish Innovations

Department of Economic History

Infrastructure

    Infrastructure Details

    Acronym

    SWINNO

    Description

    Database of Swedish significant innovations assembled from trade journals for the period 1970-2019 and updated on a yearly basis. The database covers the manufacturing industry and ICT services. The data on Swedish innovation contains information about the innovating firm, collaborators, industry classifications, user industries, year of commercialization, and more, and is publicly available. Personal data and underlying sources are stored in an internal database infrastructure. The database construction is funded by VINNOVA.

    Digital and physical collections

    The infrastructure contains a digital collection of innovations as well as a collection of digitized versions of the underlying sources from more than a dozen Swedish trade journals.

    UKÄ subject classification

    • Economics and Business

    Type of infrastructure

    • Digital collections

    Contact information

    LinksWebsite

    Terms of loan/booking

    Available for loan - internal and external

    Available online at database webpage. Underlying data (journals) and material protected by GDPR are stored in an internal infrastructure.