Invest Sweden (), a.k.a. Invest in Sweden Agency () 1995–2010, was a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

government agency A government agency or state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government (bureaucracy) that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, s ...

organised under the

Minister for Foreign Affairs In many countries, the ministry of foreign affairs (abbreviated as MFA or MOFA) is the highest government department exclusively or primarily responsible for the state's foreign policy and relations, diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral re ...

, promoting business and investment opportunities in Sweden to foreign investors. The objective was to stimulate an increased flow of

foreign direct investment A foreign direct investment (FDI) is an ownership stake in a company, made by a foreign investor, company, or government from another country. More specifically, it describes a controlling ownership an asset in one country by an entity based i ...

to Sweden. In 2013, the agency was merged with the organisation

Swedish Trade Council The Swedish Trade Council () was an organisation formed after a parliamentary decision July 1, 1972, in cooperation between the Government of Sweden and representatives from the Swedish business community, through the Swedish Foreign Trade Associat ...

, to form a new organisation named

Business Sweden Business Sweden is a not-for-profit, strategy consultancy with a purpose to help Swedish companies grow their global sales and international companies to invest and expand in to Sweden. .The organisation has two owners: The Government of Sweden and ...

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