SMEs are crucial to Sweden’s competitiveness
The application period is now open for Net Zero Industry’s first call, focused on SME initiatives. The call targets intermediaries – that is, organizations that can support small and medium-sized […]
The application period is now open for Net Zero Industry’s first call, focused on SME initiatives. The call targets intermediaries – that is, organizations that can support small and medium-sized […]
For the Swedish manufacturing industry to achieve net zero, a comprehensive transition is required, not least in the automotive industry. One of the first strategic projects within Net Zero Industry, […]

Net Zero Industry’s role is to contribute to and enable the acceleration of the transition to net zero. An important part of our work is to work with our financiers to create the conditions for and finance R&D projects that contribute to the transition.

We are very proud to finance projects that promote the competitiveness of Swedish manufacturing industry. Our project portfolio includes a focus on resource efficiency and resilience, system innovation and policy instruments.
Net Zero Industry is an innovation program within Impact Innovation, aimed at supporting sustainable transformation and strengthening Sweden’s global competitiveness.
The program is a stakeholder-driven, long-term initiative that mobilizes efforts toward the mission of a competitive and resilient Swedish manufacturing industry with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.


Net Zero Industry is one of five Impact Innovation programmes focusing on Swedish manufacturing. We enable industry to be competitive and resilient with net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.

The world faces complex challenges that require us to think in new ways and act radically differently. We need to transform our entire society in a short period of time: our cities, our welfare systems, our value chains and our consumption patterns.