Accelerationskontoret
A 2024 Swedish government body for accelerating industrial transition and large corporate investment, now proposed (Ei R2026:06) as convener of the cross-agency "samverkansaccelerator" coordinating net-zero regulatory sandbox questions that span multiple authorities' remits.
Ei picked it for that role because its existing mandate already covers cross-actor coordination and its working methods have likely had time to establish — a case of regulatory-sandbox design reusing an institution built for an adjacent purpose (industrial transition) rather than creating a new one from scratch.
Accelerationskontoret (the Acceleration Office) is a Swedish government body established in 2024 to speed up industrial transition and large corporate investment. It works to coordinate public and private actors involved in the industrial transformation — proposing legislative amendments needed to ease the green transition, negotiating letters of intent between involved parties, and negotiating agreements with municipalities, regions, and other actors on measures to accelerate green industrial change. Its mandate was extended by two years, as announced by the government on 20 April 2026 (Ei R2026:06).
Role in net-zero regulatory sandboxes
In Ei’s June 2026 proposal for a national structure for net-zero-technology regulatory sandboxes (Ei R2026:06), Accelerationskontoret is proposed as the convener of the samverkansaccelerator — the cross-sectoral body of competent authorities (behöriga myndigheter) that would coordinate on regulatory sandbox questions spanning multiple agencies’ remits. Ei’s rationale: Accelerationskontoret’s existing mandate to coordinate public/private actors on industrial transition aligns closely with the Net-Zero Industry Act’s (Regulation 2024/1735) own goals of increased competitiveness, innovation-chain efficiency, and accelerated transition — and because its mandate has been running for some time, Ei considers it likely that working methods for cross-actor coordination are already established. (Source - Ei R2026-06 Nettonollteknik och Regulatoriska Sandlådor (2026))
Relevance to existing wiki topics
- Ei — proposed collaboration partner in Ei’s regulatory-sandbox structure model
- Vinnova (no wiki page yet) — Ei suggests Vinnova as the national kontaktpunkt for net-zero sandboxes (Vinnova’s own revised proposal instead named Tillväxtverket), a distinct role from Accelerationskontoret’s proposed samverkansaccelerator-convener role
Data gaps
- Whether the government adopts Ei’s proposal to formally give Accelerationskontoret the samverkansaccelerator-convener role for net-zero regulatory sandboxes