Region Skåne is the county council responsible for healthcare, public transport, business development, culture, infrastructure, and environmental issues in Skåne, Sweden. We sit down with Carl Johan Sonesson, chairman of the Executive Committee, who highlights his plan to dramatically reduce the waiting times in the region’s healthcare system, the importance of the life science industry to Skåne and the whole Medicon Valley, in addition to the key behind Sweden’s unique innovative culture.
The Medicon Valley region is definitively the place to be for anybody interested in life science. It has 90 percent of all Scandinavian life science graduates, the industry employs 40,000 people, we have nine world-leading life science universities, 6,000 PhD students and 350 biotech, medtech and pharma companies
