Nordic Hardtech is the platform for leaders building innovative, complex, and physical technology companies across the Nordics.
In this podcast, we meet entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders shaping the future of hardtech — from AI and robotics to energy, aerospace, advanced materials, healthtech, and beyond.
New episodes are released biweekly in both English and Swedish.
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37. Lisa Eriksson (KTH Innovation) – Building Europe’s Deeptech Pipeline
37. Building Europe’s Deeptech Pipeline
Lisa Eriksson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-ericsson-aa27a9/), Head of KTH Innovation (https://www.kth.se/om/innovation/kth-innovation-1.956839) and CEO of KTH Ventures (https://kthventures.se/en), joins the Nordic Hardtech Podcast to discuss what it takes to turn world-class research into venture-backed companies.
KTH Innovation supports hundreds of founders, researchers and students every year, helping transform ideas into startups across fields such as AI, energy, semiconductors, life science and advanced engineering. In this conversation, Lisa shares lessons from nearly two decades of building Sweden’s innovation ecosystem, explains why teams matter more than technology, and discusses how Europe can become a stronger home for deeptech startups and scaleups.
In this episode:
✅ Turning research into venture-backed companies
✅ What separates successful deeptech teams
✅ Matching researchers with experienced entrepreneurs
✅ AI as a shortcut to faster commercialization
✅ Europe's search for the next generation of tech giants
✅ Breaking down regulatory fragmentation
✅ Building and scaling companies from Europe
This episode was recorded in collaboration with Lightbringer (https://www.lightbringer.com/). Protecting your IP is critical, but it shouldn’t slow you down. Lightbringer offers an AI-powered platform to simplify and accelerate the patent process. Find out more (https://www.lightbringer.com/).
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5 May 2026
36. Monica Bellgran – Produktionsänglar & Sveriges bortglömda konkurrensfördel [SWE]
36. Produktionsänglar & Sveriges bortglömda konkurrensfördel
Monica Bellgran (https://www.linkedin.com/in/monica-bellgran-28276612/), vicerektor för innovation vid Mälardalen Universitet (https://www.mdu.se/staff?id=monica.bellgran) och medgrundare av Produktionsänglar (https://www.kth.se/profile/bellgran/page/produktionsaenglar), gästar podden för att prata om en av hardtech-världens mest underskattade utmaningar: att gå från prototyp till produktion.
Från industrialisering och leverantörskedjor till automation, AI och geopolitik förklarar hon varför så många hårdvarubolag kör fast mellan första produkten och fungerande fabrik — och varför Sverige behöver börja se produktion som en strategisk styrka igen.
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I detta avsnitt:
✅ Sverige bygger stark teknik — men skalar för långsamt
✅ Varför produktion fortfarande kommer in för sent i hardtech
✅ Det verkliga glappet mellan prototyp och fabrik
✅ Produktionsänglar hjälper startups hitta svensk tillverkning
✅ AI och automation kan flytta hem mer produktion
✅ Därför börjar industri bli geopolitik again
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3 Feb 2026
35. Tomas Becklin – Teaching Infrastructure to Speak Animal with Flox
#35. Teaching Infrastructure to Speak Animal with Flox
Tomas Becklin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasbecklin/?originalSubdomain=se), CTO and co-founder of Flox (https://floxintelligence.com/), joins our podcast to explain how AI, acoustics and edge computing can reduce conflicts between wildlife and critical infrastructure.
Flox builds systems that identify animals in real time and play sounds they instinctively understand, guiding behavior without fences, barriers or harm. In this conversation, Tomas walks through the technical and commercial realities of deploying autonomous hardware in extreme environments, from reindeer near Arctic roads to wildlife risks at airports.
In this episode:
✅ Guiding animal behavior with sound, not fences
✅ Why edge beats cloud in safety-critical settings
✅ From drones to deployable hardware
✅ Hardware built for cold, battery life and speed
✅ Selling to airports, rail and road operators
✅ Scaling and funding hardware across Europe and the US
This episode was recorded in collaboration with Lightbringer (https://www.lightbringer.com/). Protecting your IP is critical, but it shouldn’t slow you down. Lightbringer offers an AI-powered platform to simplify and accelerate the patent process. Find out more (https://www.lightbringer.com/).
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