Competence hubs
Key regional hubs
Sweden’s semiconductor strength is built regionally. This page maps the country’s key competence hubs, the geographic clusters where research infrastructure, industry anchors and innovation environments come together within semiconductor technology. Sweden’s expertise reaches well beyond the six regions listed below, but each of these hubs anchors a distinct concentration of capability.
These regional strengths work alongside the national projects and international initiatives on our ecosystem projects and initatives page. Together, these pages show a fuller picture of Sweden’s semiconductor ecosystem and its collective impact.
Which are Sweden's key competence hubs?
Please contact us or the respective hub actors to learn more or to provide suggestions/updates to this overview.
Brief overviews of the mapped regions
Go to respective regional landing page for full insights:
Competence Hub
Östergötland - Linköping / Norrköping
SiC/GaN materials · Key wide-bandgap companies · RF & power electronics
From research to real impact
Halvledare – en svensk värdekedja (Semiconductors – a Swedish value chain) is one of Sweden’s key project 2025–2028 supported by Tillväxtverket.
Competence Hub
Kista - Stockholm
Sweden’s semiconductor capital · full value chain hub
Driving semiconductor innovation
Competence Hub
Uppsala
Sweden's largest academic cleanroom · sensors & life science
From materials to prototypes
Competence Hub
Lund/Malmö - Skåne
World-class nanoelectronics · WBG pilot line · MAX IV synchrotron
Strategic synergies between academia and industry
Ecosystem deep-tech actors:
- Lund University – Lund Innovation District
- MyFab Lund / Lund Nano Lab
- Wide Bandgap Pilot Line – EU Chips Joint Undertaking (Lund node)
- MAX IV
- RISE Research Institutes of Sweden – ProNano
- Swedish Chips Competence Centre (SCCC) – Southern node
- ESS – European Spallation Source
- Ideon Science Park – Deep Tech
- OpenTech
Competence Hub
Halmstad - Halland
Applied electronics · embedded systems · testing infrastructure
Applied electronics development and SME collaboration
Competence Hub
Gothenburg - Västra Götaland
RF/GaN expertise · 35+ semiconductor companies · €221M revenue
A regional cluster built on engineering density
One ecosystem, many layers
Hubs, initatives, projects, EU programs all interact! The above regional hubs collaborate closely with and involve with or represent national or broader initiatives such as the Swedish Chips Competence Centre (SCCC), Myfab, and nordic and EU-level programs.
Sweden’s semiconductor ecosystem is growing organically through collaboration. Whether you’re a policymaker, investor, startup founder, or researcher, we hope this overview offers a guided tour of key regional hubs shaping Sweden’s role in the global semiconductor value chain. Learn more about Semiconductor Sweden and how we gather Sweden’s ecosystem to support scaleups, increase Europe’s resilience and accelerate collaborative innovation.