The City of Malmö’s Executive Committee has decided to establish a business and innovation hub with focus on Japan during 2024. The investment takes place in collaboration with the startup house Minc and aims to attract more Japanese business establishments and investments to Malmö, support companies in Malmö that want to enter the Japanese market and at the same time contribute to jointly developing new innovations and solutions to challenges that both regions face, not least in the area of sustainability.
Intelligence Watch, a Swedish think tank, has written the new report “Scandinavia’s Sustainable Tech Banana Beckons Japan” about the existing business, research and political relations between Japan and Scandinavia. It recommends Japan to collaborate more with Europe’s more sustainable version of California’s Silicon Valley, which in the report is called Scandinavia’s Sustainable Tech Banana due […]
The Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) entered into force on 1 February 2019, opening a new marketplace home to 635 million inhabitants and almost a third of the world’s GDP. Together with the EU-Japan Strategic Partnership and the EU-Japan Green Alliance
t brings the people of Japan and Europe closer than ever before.
By joining Japan Bridge Scandinavia, your organisation will have the opportunity to be part of the process of building deeper relations between Japan and Scandinavia and interact with stakeholders, experts and policymakers in a variety of settings
On 10 November 2019, the Swedish think tank Intelligence Watch highlighted strong business and research ties between Malmö and Lund in Southern Sweden and Japan. Companies like Axis (a Canon subsidiary) and Sony employ 3,000 people there, while 70% of cars in the local harbor are Japanese.
Other collaborations include J-Parc and ESS in neutron spallation, and Nippon Foundation’s major funding for the World Maritime University. Moreover, several Japanese firms have their Nordic headquarters in the region, and companies such as Alfa Laval and Tetra Pak consider Japan a key market. In September 2020, a significant meeting led to the agreement to establish Japan House Scandinavia in Malmö.
Malmö city and Minc will jointly establish a Japan-oriented business and innovation hub in Malmö. To run this establishment, we are now looking for a project manager for Minc.
As a project manager, you will have the operational responsibility for the hub and start to work on establishing the city’s Japanese business and innovation hub and it will be your mission to drive the hub’s work forward. This means that you work to implement and establish strategic plans and initiatives from Minc’s management and the city of Malmö.
To read more about the role and how to make an application: https://malmo.se/Jobb/Lediga-jobb/Annons.html
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