A researchcompany, led bya researcher.

The company

Inkoation Research Sweden AB is a Swedish private limited company, organisation number 559599-4418, with its registered office in Stockholm. Its registered activity is research and experimental development in the social sciences and humanities (SNI 72200). It has one director, its founder.

The company works in three spaces. Innovation is the commissioned work: proposal engineering for collaborative research, the Science-Meets-Politics and Gender Reversed Bootcamp formats, and a watch on Horizon Europe. Knowledge is the library it builds on. Research is the programme under way, on how competences form in territories under energy transition.

Why a company

Research funders in Europe contract with legal entities. Inkoation exists so that research led from Sweden can be hosted, employed and accounted for in Sweden, with its results owned by the entity that produces them, and so that the engineering around a proposal can be bought as a fixed-scope service rather than improvised at the deadline.

The position

One realism runs through the work. Machines are looked at without technophilia or technophobia: not what they are for, but how they come to be. The planet is looked at without a face: neither a mother, nor a backdrop, nor a benefactor, but what exists by itself, shizen in Japanese. The human role is then twofold: to adapt to its laws, and to maintain and increase the biological diversity and the functioning of the ecosystems on which humans and other species depend. In both cases the method is scale: no claim about energy, materials or skills without its orders of magnitude.

The founder

Ludovic Garattini is a researcher in information and communication sciences (PhD, 2021, Université Paris Cité) and an Associate Researcher at the HTI2S laboratory (Humanités, Techniques, Innovations, Sciences et Société), CNAM, Paris. His doctoral research combined hands-on empirical work in robotic systems, carried out in eight robotics laboratories across Europe and Japan, with a philosophical analysis of artificial systems drawing on Gilbert Simondon and Nishida Kitarō.

His research concerns competence formation in territories undergoing energy transition and the use of narrative sciences in social research. He is the author of the Narrative Circles protocol, the Science-Meets-Politics format and the Gender Reversed Bootcamp, and has a career in EU research policy and programme management. He works in English, French, Italian and Japanese, with working Swedish.