Swedish Center for Digital Innovation

We enhance digital capabilities through excellent research.

Research Themes

Our research is organized around strategic themes that address key challenges in digital innovation

Saving the Welfare State

Modernizing the digital foundation of the public sector to ensure the welfare model remains sustainable for the next generation.

Strengthening Twin transition

Closing the gap between climate strategies and digital initiatives to deliver measurable sustainability results.

Transforming National Defense

Modernizing defensive capabilities and organizational governance to handle 21st-century digital threats and supply chain risks.

Exploring the Digital

Moving beyond brittle, siloed systems to create interoperable, secure, and scalable digital foundations.

Initiatives

Collaborative programs that connect research with practice

Exploring the Digital

The Future of Research

The Future of Research is an SCDI research initiative that explores how generative and agentic AI are changing the way scientific knowledge is produced, validated and funded. It develops infrastructure through which scientific rigor can reach the places where data is actually generated.
  • 2026
Saving the Welfare StateTransforming National Defense

Digital Sovereignty

Digital Sovereignty is a research initiative examining when and how societies should govern their dependence on foreign digital infrastructure, combining a criticality-adjusted analytical framework, an organized-interdependence theory of sovereignty, and direct engagement in Swedish public debate.
  • 2026
Strengthening Twin Transition

Urban Twin Transition Center (UTTC)

UTTC is a national competence center supporting Swedish cities and municipalities in achieving climate neutrality by identifying, evaluating, and scaling digital net-zero solutions through the integration of green and digital transition.
  • 2019
Transforming National Defense

Governing Adaptable Civil Protection

This research program studies how the civil protection of the future should be governed and organized, as digitalization and generative AI change what it is possible to do. It focuses on how societies can analyze complex events and mobilize and coordinate people, resources, information and physical infrastructure during crisis and war.
  • 2025
Saving the Welfare State

RAISE Monitoring Hub

RAISE is a Nordic research collaboration that is building a long-term monitoring hub to map, evaluate and make visible the societal impacts of AI systems used in public administration across the Nordic region.
  • 2026
Strengthening Twin Transition

Mistra BIOPATH

Mistra BIOPATH is a transdisciplinary research programme that brings together academia, industry, the financial sector and public authorities to integrate biodiversity into financial decision-making, so the financial system can help halt and reverse biodiversity loss.
  • 2022
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Leading Research Excellence

Collaborative teams driving innovation across academia, government, and industry

Adrian Bumann

Claire Ingram Bogusz

Nataliya Berbyuk Lindström

Alexander Herwix

Johan Sandberg

Hugo Hedlund

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Publications

Latest research findings and academic contributions

Balancing innovation and regulation: The Data Sovereignty Assessment Framework

  • Research Article
  • Holmström, J. and Magnusson, J.
  • Business Horizons
  • 2026

Mechanisms of constraint: a clinical inquiry of digital infrastructuring in municipalities

  • Research Article
  • Jwan Khisro, Tomas Lindroth, Johan Magnusson
  • Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy
  • 2021

Interorganisatorisk digital transformation (Inter-organizational digital transformation)

  • Doctoral Thesis
  • Marcus Matteby
  • University of Gothenburg
  • 2026

THE CONSENSING APPROACH TO STRATEGIZING: The Dynamics of Dialogue in Public Sector Digital Transformation

  • Doctoral Thesis
  • Kristian Norling
  • University of Gothenburg
  • 2024
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About SCDI

Swedish Center for Digital Innovation (SCDI) is a research center consisting of scholars from the University of Gothenburg, Umeå University and Stockholm School of Economics. SCDI’s vision is to be internationally recognized as a stellar and impactful research environment in the field of digital innovation. It offers a unique context for orchestrating close collaboration between researchers, students, and practitioners to help address challenges in practice and advance new theory.

Academic excellence, educational engagement, and societal impact are at the heart of its mission. The center was founded by Professor Jonny Holmström (Umeå University) and Professor Rikard Lindgren (University of Gothenburg) following a donation from Carl Bennet AB in 2013.

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