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Empowering Halland: A Strategic Approach to Business Renewal

Business support organizations, in collaboration with SMEs operating within Halland's areas of smart specialization—Sustainable Materials and Sustainable Food—and academia, aim to develop and test a method to enhance businesses' capacity to work strategically with competence development and foster a corporate culture that promotes sustainability, innovation, and renewal. The method will be tested and continuously evaluated throughout the project period.

To develop this method, the business support actors must first generate knowledge and insights into the factors that contribute to an attractive, innovative corporate culture and renewal capacity. This will involve leveraging existing research and expertise in the field. The next step involves co-developing the method with approximately four SMEs, conducting iterative testing and evaluation, and packaging the method so it can be accessed by both business support organisations and SMEs. Finally, the method will be tested and evaluated with an additional 8–10 companies to ensure it is scalable.

Project goals

Business support organisations, together with SMEs in Halland's smart specialisation areas (Future Food and Sustainable Materials) and academia, will develop and test a method to strengthen businesses’ capacity to work strategically with competence development and to build a corporate culture that supports sustainability, innovation, and renewal. The method will be tested and continuously evaluated during the project period.

A prerequisite for fostering growth within the region’s smart specialisation areas is the availability of competence to create and harness innovations within companies, while integrating sustainability and gender equality into the corporate environment. Collectively, these factors form the foundation for the renewal capacity required to drive engagement and growth within the specialisation areas.

About the project

Project period

  • 2025-05-01–2028-05-31

Project Leader

Collaboration partners

  • IUC i Halland

Financiers

  • The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth
  • Region Halland

 

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