ESA BIC Sweden

Arctic Business in Lulea hosts one of the four ESA BIC Sweden centres and manages the national network, which opened in December 2015 with Uppsala Innovation Centre, Innovatum Science Park and Ideon Science Park. Incubation runs up to 24 months on a permanent open call, so applications are accepted at any time from Swedish companies no more than five years old. Space and deeptech, with EUR 50,000 of incentive funding for product development and IPR plus 80 hours of technical support, and no equity taken.

Investment

€50,000 (At Europe & C. Asia median $54.5k · Below global median $61.3k)

Equity taken

0% (Like 88% of Europe & C. Asia · Like 79% globally)

Duration

104 weeks (Longer than Europe & C. Asia median 26 wks · Longer than global median 20 wks)

Format

Not disclosed

Cadence

rolling

Location

Lulea, Sweden

Sectors

• Space
• Deep Tech

How to apply

Official website

This programme has notes explaining its undisclosed figures, available in the full dataset.

Sources

Every figure above is taken from these pages, published by the programme or its parent organisation.

• https://www.esa-bic.se/apply read 2026-09-06 — supports cheque amount, cheque currency, duration weeks, duration note, batch cadence, city, status, name, organization, country, country code, cheque note, equity pct, equity note, sectors, application url, website
• https://www.esa-bic.se/about read 2026-09-06 — supports name, organization, duration note, city, status, country, country code, cheque amount, cheque currency, cheque note, equity pct, equity note, duration weeks, batch cadence, sectors, application url, website
• https://www.esa-bic.se/ read 2026-09-07 — supports contact email

Other accelerators in Lulea

• Arctic Business Incubator

Last verified 2026-09-06.