1. 1 SWECARE FOUNDATION Bringing Swedish medical know how and technology to health care facilities all over the world

3. Vision

4. Core Value

5. Operational functions

6. History

7. Ways of working

9. 4 SWECARE FOUNDATION Vision Swecare shall, through cooperation, promote growth, increased international competitiveness, development and export, for the Swedish Life Science sector and healthcare in Sweden and overseas, benefiting member companies.

10. 5 SWECARE FOUNDATION CoreValueSwecare is unique as an independent platform, for multidisciplinarycooperation within the healthcaresector, between: the Public Sector the Government and Governmentalagencies the Hospitals the Universities the Medical Industry With the purpose of developinginternational business

11. 6 SWECARE FOUNDATION Operational functions

12. 7 SWECARE FOUNDATION History Founded 1978, by; The Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs The Federation of the Swedish County Councils (The public provider of health care) The Swedish Trade Council 32 companies within the healthcaresector

13. Swecare today; The Ministry of ForeignAffairs The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs The Federation of the Swedish County Councils The Swedish Trade Council Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry Swedish Medtech association A Network of 300 healthcareand life science companies 8 SWECARE FOUNDATION

14. 9 SWECARE FOUNDATION Weshall … be the official export promotion organisation for the healthcaresector facilitate the development for internationalization of Swedish Life Science products, R&D, Education and healthcare services assist Ministries and officialagencies in their international contacts

15. plan/organize foreign visits to Sweden as an exception to the rule be a business partner visit presumptive export markets to collect/distribute information on markets and locate cooperation partners for member companies plan and participate in export promotion activities, assist individual companies 10 SWECARE FOUNDATION

16. 11 Health care expenditures in percent of GDP in selected countries 2005 Irleand Finland * Japan Spain Italy Denmark * Data from 2004 Sweden Norway Canada Austria Germany France Switzerland USA Per cent Source: OECD Health Data 2007

17. 12 Sweden’s import and export of pharmaceuticals and balance of trade 1990–2006 MSEK Year Source: SCB 12

18. 13 SWECARE FOUNDATION www.swecare.com