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The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) is launching a new research program in geoeconomics, a field that combines geographical, economic, and political factors. The program aims to analyze how rising global tensions affect trade, investment, and industrial policy, as well as how these developments influence business decisions. The research will provide decision-makers with insights through analyses, case studies, and policy recommendations. Eight researchers are participating, and several projects are already underway, including ones focused on critical raw materials, sanctions, energy security, and changing supply chains. Fredrik Sjöholm is the program director. Read more.

Fredrik Sjöholm is one of the members of the Danish Rockwool Foundation's new investment in research on productivity and competitiveness.  

With the new research unit, the Rockwool Foundation wants to contribute to long-term solutions to strengthen Europe's competitiveness and economic sustainability.

In this open-access book, Lars Oxelheim, one of the editors, and Fredrik Sjöholm, both IFN, together with the other authors, examine the implications for the EU of a radically changed international context characterized by systemic rivalry, competition over norms, and regulations, and growing strategic tension.

Fredrik Sjöholm has been appointed member of the International Advisory Board of Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech).

Fredrik Sjöholm participated in the Asian Economic Panel's conference in Seoul on 19–20 March. The conference aims to discuss current issues of importance for Asia's economic development.

Fredik Sjöholm, CEO of IFN, is one of ten European economists who have signed a joint call for further sanctions against Russia.

Fredrik Sjöholm, director of IFN, has been appointed chair of division IX of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). The division focuses on The economic sciences with a focus on economics and connections to business administration as well as how economics and engineering intersect.

Foreign companies' interest in establishing themselves in Sweden seems to have diminished since the financial crisis, and it is worrying, said Fredrik Sjöholm, CEO of IFN, when he participated in the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum's launch of the report Swedish Perspectives on Industrial Policy, the Washington Consensus and Beyond.

Fredrik Sjöholm, CEO of IFN, has been elected to be a member of the board of the European Institute of Japanese Studies.

Digitization, migration, and the Covid crisis have brought on a rapid change in the Swedish business sector. To better respond to the need for high-quality analysis of the various factors relevant to the function of the business sector, IFN is developing two of its research programs.