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WHITE SPACES INNOVATION IN SWEDENinnovation platform development with Smart Textiles for medical textiles, Processumfor raw materials and even for nutraceuticals inputs of the kind Sanofi-Aventis andother „big pharma‟ are showing an appetite for. In other respects innovation aroundfluids important for in vitro fertilization and the transportation of transplant organs havespawned spin-outs alongside Solartis a stem cells testing operation.Centre of VisualisationCentre of Visualization Göteborg is an organization for stimulating growth in the fieldof digital visualization. The organization spreads visualization technology into new andexisting industry segments and provides industries with sharper tools in for exampleproduction, processes, product development and design. The Centre of Visualizationalso stimulates cross-overs between visualization and other technologies in order tocreate new innovations and applications. Its vision is that Centre of Visualization willbecome an important factor in contributing to economic growth and development in theGöteborg region. As visualization becomes increasingly important for industries, business,Governments and consumers, Centre of Visualization will through its membersprovide knowledge and competence to support the transformation from traditional industriesto knowledge-based industries. Since summer 2007 Centre of Visualization isone of three national Knowledge Arenas within the network VISARD, Visualisation inSweden - Arenas for Research and Development supported by the Knowledge Foundation,Invest in Sweden Agency, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, The VårdalFoundation and VINNOVA. Centre of Visualization Göteborg is a membership organisationmanaged by Business Region Göteborg and Chalmers University of Technology.Among its joint projects is „Urban games: mutual learning for sustainable development.‟This project focuses on the use of games and visualisation to understand the city as acomplex system. The Centre of Visualization, City of Gothenburg and GRUL, which isGR's project on experience-based learning, are some of the participants in this project.3.4.7 Further ConclusionsThere are two dimensions to these further interim conclusions, which will be fully concludedwith the inclusion of survey results from the other cluster initiatives promoted bySweden‟s leading innovation support agencies. The first interim conclusion is drawn inresponse to the comparison of cluster-platform experiences in Table 3.3, which is constructedusing the same variables as Table 3.2.71