
Companies pick up where schools fall behind
Skills supply |
Unable to recruit site engineers and foremen for their building
projects, Swedish construction giant, Skanska, and other companies,
have started private upper secondary schools. Offering an internal job
guarantee, companies hope to meet their recruitment needs.

Intellectual property|
How much is intellectual property worth? That’s the question for
Swedese as they pursue protecting their design award winning shelf ‘Libri’
in court.

Intellectual property|
Sweden must have faster and simpler dispute resolution processes in patent and
intellectual property cases. "Disputes cannot take years for companies
to assert such rights, otherwise their protections become meaningless",
says Eva Jarnvall, Intellectual Property Specialist at the
Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, proposing a special court for
commercial issues.

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