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Are Americans more social and Scandinavians more interested in making things? These questions came to my mind when we recently compiled our annual list of Sweden’s 33 most innovative startups at Ny Teknik, a Swedish weekly magazine covering business, technology and science news.

The companies in the finished list, as well as those (several hundred) candidates that didn’t make it, seemed to be more geared towards what you might call “hard technology” than those on similar lists from the U.S., where there is a lot of interest in “soft technology.”

To read the full, original article click on this link: Social vs. Manufacturing: Differences in American and Scandinavian Startup Culture | Xconomy

Author: Erik Mellgren