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How the Wallenberg Foundation Funding Powers Swedish Innovation
Sweden's Wallenberg family is famous for its industrial empire, but the engine behind their century of control is often overlooked: the Wallenberg Foundations. This episode examines how the foundations, seeded with stock from companies like SKF and Ericsson, have become the largest private research funder in Europe, distributing roughly two hundred fifty million dollars a year to basic science, doctoral programs, and even the human genome project. Lucas and Luna drill into one specific case: the foundation's early bet on the sequencing of the human genome in the 1990s, how it linked…
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