Future Experience Hub

Many choose to commute to western Skåne to work in the digital industries instead of starting new high-tech or digital companies in southeastern Skåne. What options are there to change that?

The purpose was to investigate the conditions for creating an operation to promote innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship in southeastern Skåne. The idea for this pre-study was born from the question of why there are so few digital entrepreneurs, companies, and workplaces in southeastern Skåne that work with modern technology such as IT, software development, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and cloud-based services.

The digital hubs that exist are located on the western side of Skåne, primarily in Malmö and Lund, but also to some extent in Helsingborg. The vision was a cluster, an incubator, and/or an innovation center for digitization where people can meet, be challenged, exchange experiences and skills, and develop their ideas into new exciting and viable companies with the whole world as a market.

The project group primarily worked with research and looked at the current situation and existing needs, conducted a market analysis, explored long-term funding opportunities, discussed arrangements, regulations, and requirements for an incubator, and reviewed what types of events and training could be of interest. The project group visited, among others, the business offices in Simrishamn, Sjöbo, Skurup, Tomelilla, and Ystad, as well as representatives from Ystad Gymnasium, Tourism in Skåne, Capgemini, Media Evolution, Geometra Software, By Kragh, Pixelbruket, Innovation Skåne, MINC, Frobbit, and others.

The project resulted in a final report with the project group's recommendations. Here, the research that was conducted, the interviews and conversations that were held with representatives from the aforementioned companies, authorities, and organizations, as well as a number of concept ideas that were then evaluated based on various success factors, were summarized. The concept that was deemed the best has been developed and described based on how such an operation should be organized, financed, resourced, and operated.

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The project contributes to strengthened entrepreneurship and business by involving a wide range of companies and organizations. The pre-study creates conditions for a new market to be tested. Digital tourism is in a very early stage of development where systems and methods for knowledge transfer are needed.