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Company profile · Sweden
Saab: defence systems and European production capacity
How Saab connects aircraft, sensors, weapons and naval systems with European defence procurement, production capacity and specialised supplier relationships.
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HENSOLDT: sensors, optronics and defence-system integration
A sourced profile of HENSOLDT's radar, optronics and integration activities, showing how European defence orders translate into delivery requirements.
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Bluefors: the cooling infrastructure behind quantum hardware
Bluefors supplies cryogenic systems and laboratory access for quantum hardware development, with modular infrastructure intended to support larger deployments.
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Oxford Instruments: quantum fabrication and imaging after NanoScience
Oxford Instruments retains quantum fabrication and imaging capabilities after selling NanoScience, separating its current role from its cryogenic heritage.
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Universal Robots: collaborative arms for physical AI
Universal Robots connects collaborative robot arms, industrial software and training tools, making it a platform to watch as physical AI reaches factories.
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Harmonic Drive: precision gearing for robot movement
Harmonic Drive Systems supplies precision gears and actuators for robot joints, offering a view of the mechanical foundations behind physical AI deployment.
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Climeworks: direct air capture and measured carbon removal
How Climeworks turns direct air capture into carbon-removal services, with a clear distinction between plant design, operating evidence and net removal.
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Oxford PV: tandem solar manufacturing and patent licensing
Oxford PV's route from perovskite tandem research to commercial modules and patent licensing, separating shipped products from future manufacturing scale.
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TRUMPF: machine tools, lasers and industrial services
Explore TRUMPF’s machine tools, laser technology and industrial services, and the integration and support responsibilities behind its manufacturing offer.
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Arm: licensing, royalties and the move into silicon products
Arm's business model explained through licence access, shipment-linked royalties and its 2026 silicon announcement, separating revenue mechanisms and plans.
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Shopify’s business model: subscriptions, merchant services and its partner ecosystem
Understand Shopify’s subscription and merchant-solutions revenue, payment services and partner ecosystem, with dated company evidence and practical SME lessons.
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Passive radar
How passive radar uses existing radio signals, where it adds surveillance coverage and what determines a viable deployment.
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Gallium-nitride RF power amplifiers
The semiconductor physics, manufacturing chain and qualification requirements behind high-power radio-frequency amplification.
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Quantum sensing: commercial instruments and field deployment requirements
Explore commercial quantum gravimeters and magnetic instruments, then translate specifications into field logistics, acceptance tests and operating costs.
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Dilution refrigeration
How helium mixtures produce millikelvin temperatures and why useful cooling capacity depends on the complete measurement system.
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Tactile sensing for robots
How touch sensors reveal contact, slip and object position, and what is required for reliable industrial manipulation.
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Robot actuators: suppliers, joint specifications and qualification
Understand robot joint actuators and six supplier offerings, then assess duty cycles, thermal limits, interfaces, endurance and lifecycle qualification costs.
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Sodium-ion batteries: suppliers, availability and applications
Assess sodium-ion battery suppliers, product availability and application fit, separating factory announcements from cells delivered and supported in service.
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Industrial thermal energy storage: heat batteries and process fit
Explore industrial thermal energy storage suppliers and assess delivered temperature, discharge power, charging windows, usable capacity and project evidence.
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Digital product passports
How structured product records support market access and lifecycle services, with a practical view of data ownership and implementation cost.
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Industrial digital twins
How connected models support manufacturing decisions and what determines an investable digital-twin business case.
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TRUMPF pay-per-part: allocating machinery risk in the 2020 proposal
A bounded historical case of TRUMPF and Munich Re's proposed laser-cutting service, examining output pricing, investment risk and the conditions needed to deliver it.
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Rolls-Royce TotalCare: flying-hour payments and maintenance risk
How TotalCare connects airline engine use to long-term maintenance payments, and why service capability, cash timing and cost forecasts determine the business model's economics.
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Arm licensing and royalties: charging for design access and shipped chips
Arm's intellectual-property licensing case explains the separate roles of access fees, manufacturing rights and chip royalties, with lessons for smaller technology licensors.
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Hilti Fleet Management: the service obligations behind a monthly tool fee
A case of Hilti's tool-service model using its GB framework agreement to examine repair coverage, retained customer risk, asset use and the economics of continuing support.
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Schneider Electric: extending industrial products through software and services
How AVEVA subscriptions and Schneider Electric's maintenance services create continuing customer relationships, with separate evidence for recurring software revenue and field-service delivery.
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European Defence Fund: research and development funding
Understand the European Defence Fund, consortium preparation and the distinction between collaborative R&D support and procurement revenue.
Programme reference; application status is call-specific.
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EUDIS Business Accelerator: the route into European defence
Explore EUDIS accelerator support, the 2026 cohort timetable and the evidence a start-up needs when approaching European defence customers.
2026 cohort application windows have passed according to the published timetable.
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NATO DIANA: accelerator support and defence adoption
Understand NATO DIANA challenge selection, contractual funding and testing support, with the current status of its annual challenge window.
Applications for the 2027 annual challenges are closed.
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EIC Accelerator: financing technology development and scale-up
Explore the EIC Accelerator application stages, grant and investment routes, and the next published 2026 full-proposal batching date.
2026 programme open; staged application and eligibility requirements apply.
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EuroHPC quantum access for companies: eligibility and applications
Understand EuroHPC quantum pilot eligibility, application preparation, research-output conditions and the costs a company must still fund itself.
Quantum Access Pilot call open at the source-review date.
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EIC STEP Scale Up: equity for larger technology funding rounds
Understand EIC STEP Scale Up, investor pre-commitments and the relationship between strategic technology investment and company financing.
Programme reference; general STEP and defence-specific calls have distinct conditions.
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Automation ROI calculator
Estimate automation cash benefits, simple payback and return over a chosen period, with explicit treatment of labour savings and operating costs.
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Investment payback and NPV calculator
Calculate simple payback, net cash gain and net present value for an investment with constant annual benefits, costs and a chosen discount rate.
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Working-capital and cash-cycle calculator
Estimate receivables, inventory, payables and the cash effect of changing collection, stockholding and supplier-payment assumptions.
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