The Innovation Lab partners with customers and other stakeholders to identify, explore and validate new ideas and new businesses together. By actively encouraging innovation and investment for tomorrow we create digital services, solutions, and new business models and take them all the way to market.
Together with Ericsson, Volvo Cars, Veoneer, Zenuity, CEVT and hosted by Lindholmen Science Park we founded MobilityXLab. MobilityXlab offers young companies with pioneering ideas the opportunity to accelerate. We believe that by combining our strengths we can push the boundaries of innovation.
Our partner DRIVE is a leading innovation center for smart mobility technologies. At DRIVE startups gain meaningful market opportunities while Volvo Group are provided with early insights into the start-ups’ cutting edge technology.
Our partner Plug and Play is a leading innovation platform, connecting startups, corporations, venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies. Volvo Group joined the Plug and Play Supply Chain vertical to identify what is next on the horizon for supply chain and logistics and use those technologies for sustainable growth.
Our partner, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, within the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator initiative, offers access to an open innovation platform that connects corporates with startups. This EU-funded initiative aims to build bridges for accelerating digital transformation across Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean, linking startups with venture clients to foster joint collaborations, supported by high-impact acceleration services.
Volvo has a longstanding history of collaborating with academia to develop innovative concepts to address the challenges our customers face every day. Students provide an unbiased perspective; challenging preconceived ideas and creating new concepts that help us see the problems with a new set of lenses. We collaborate with:
Stanford University
Blekinge Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Hyper Island
Cornell
Art Center College of Design
University of São Paulo
The Innovation Lab partners with customers and other stakeholders to identify, explore and validate new ideas and new businesses. By actively encouraging innovation and investment for tomorrow we create digital services, solutions, and new business models and take them all the way to the market
Read our stories.
The choices we make today define the world we live in tomorrow.
How might we help companies to reduce climate impact, stimulate circularity and ensure safety?
Logistics costs represent 5-20% of total GDP.
How might we leverage live data to create smart, proactive, tailored and streamlined solutions?
Our goal is to reach net-zero value chain emissions by 2040.
How might we lead energy transition with data driven solutions in charging, grid and battery services?
40% of the time on sites is wasted for waiting.
How might we optimize operations and safety by leveraging digital technology?
E-commerce, on-demand transportation, and smart cities are exponentially asking for new mobility solutions.
How might we respond to such changing consumer needs and cities regulations?
Innovation Lab is a part of Volvo Group Connected Solutions. Projects are conducted in a collaborative manner by multidisciplinary teams. Ideas and initiatives can originate from other Volvo Group business areas, ideas born in workshops with the start-up community, or start with a new insight from analyzing data from our connected assets.
Do you want to join the team? Or do you have an idea you want to share? Are you a start-up in need of a collaboration partner? Contact us!
Gothenburg Lindholmen Science Park office
Lindholmspiren 5B
402 78 Göteborg
Sweden
Hub335 - Silicon Valley office
335 East Middlefield Road
Mountain View, CA 94043
USA
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We hear more and more about the benefits of innovation labs within companies. The opportunity to ideate, test and prepare new releases for the wider organisation in a structured way is becoming increasingly commonplace, and it’s no different for the team at the Volvo Group Connected Solutions Innovation Lab.
The future is coming, whether we want it to or not. But if we can anticipate it, we can also navigate better. This is why strategic foresight is crucial. Strategic foresight is a systematic and forward-looking approach to understanding, anticipating, and planning the future. It involves the exploration and analysis of potential future scenarios, trends and uncertainties to help organizations and individuals make informed decisions and develop strategies that are resilient and adaptable. As a senior foresight manager at Volvo Group Connected Solutions Innovation Lab, I have been at the forefront of this transformation, driving change and practicing strategic foresight.
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Embarking on a two-day journey of innovation and collaboration, the AI in Action Hackathon organized by Volvo Group Connected Solutions, a global organization that leads the development of the Volvo Group's connected services and solutions, proved to be a showcase of brilliance and creativity. This global development and training initiative brought together numerous talented minds, fostering an atmosphere of excitement and energy.
Highlighting Volvo Group's steadfast commitment to open and collaborative innovation, the Volvo Group Connected Solutions Innovation Lab, Silicon Valley recently hosted Volvo employees from around the globe to attend the Plug and Play Winter Summit. The Summit, which presents over 300 startups across 19 industry-focused innovation programs and hosts over 3,000 attendees, serves as a vibrant hub for learning from industry leaders, connecting with startups, and gaining valuable insights into cutting-edge technologies.
The Innovation Lab by Volvo Group in Silicon Valley hosted the 2023 Service Design Summit, a three-day event that brought together a diverse group of designers, portfolio managers, and service development professionals from Volvo Trucks, Mack Trucks, Volvo Trucks North America, and Volvo Group Connected Solutions.
The Smoovit project, initiated in October 2019, has reached its completion after three years. The project united Volvo Group, various companies, educational institutions, government bodies, and authorities to discover new and more environmentally friendly approaches for transporting goods within cities. Smoovit devised a strategy to improve both the environmental impact and efficiency of urban transportation.
Volvo Group is working tirelessly towards being fossil-free by 2040 – and an important part of this commitment is investing in the future through our academic collaborations, which challenge students to provide new perspectives on industry needs. Through these partnerships, we look to provide a springboard for students today to become part of an inspired workforce tomorrow, paving the path with new ways of thinking.
Digitalization and connectivity are enabling new business possibilities in most industries. Developments of digital technologies can be used to change business models, create new business value, providing increased efficiency and saving money and reducing climate impact. The Innovation Lab at Volvo Group discovers, incubates, and accelerates new digital offers and ventures together with partners to create the next horizon of sustainable growth for Volvo Group.
Innovation Rock Stars is a video podcast series about innovation. A virtual stage for real-life stories about innovation, foresight, strategy and growth. Success or failure, opportunities or challenges, growth, or survival – in this series of podcasts, you’ll learn about the journey of the most innovative companies around the globe.
To further Volvo’s journey toward data excellence and a data-driven mindset, the Innovation Lab at Volvo Group hosted the first Volvo Group Data Summit in Mountain View, California in September. The summit brought together data scientists, analysts and business leaders around the globe to discuss how to maximize the value of data created by Volvo assets.
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