Episode list

With pomp and circumstance, King Oscar II will soon inaugurate the Stockholm Exhibition in 1897. But dark clouds are looming - a financial disaster of gigantic proportions threatens Sweden's entire economy. The pride of the nation, the inventor and industrialist Gustaf de Laval, stands on the precipice of ruin. If he goes under, the country's most successful company will be dragged down into the abyss. The honor of the country must be saved.

"Hello women, what are you inventing?" Sports bra, potato burns, rubber horseshoes and anesthesia mask for children are all products born from women's ideas. Is Sweden a paradise for an inventive woman - or a desert? We follow reporter Jens Lind on a reporting trip in time and space through Sweden.

Five men are portrayed in the drama documentary's form by director Richard Solarz. The five are: Baltzar von Platen, Gustaf Dalén, Sven Wingquist, Jonas Wenström and Carl Edvard Johansson. Their inventions and entrepreneurship all led to world industries: ABB, SKF, AGA, Electrolux. What, then, distinguishes a successful inventor.

I try to see adversity as challenges and get too upset - my reaction when it gets courageous is that then I want even more, "says Christian von Koenigsegg. He has spent the last three years all his time building the first Swedish super car. We have. Meet three Swedish entrepreneurs with design as weapons.

In the form of the drama documentary, the discoveries and works are portrayed by two large pioneers in the 18th century. Carl von Linné who gave us the keys to the kingdoms of plants, stones and birds and Christopher Polhem called "The Father of Swedish Mechanics" which together with Linné founded the Swedish Academy of Sciences.

"From chaos, the future is growing" - We are heading into a turn of the century, and a new society where knowledge is production capital. What do our future entrepreneurs and inventors look like?