The Growth Analysis, which in Sweden has offices in Östersund and Stockholm, is a government agency under the Ministry of Industry, Employment and Communications. One of its areas of responsibility is to analyze international trends of relevance to Swedish growth policy. The Growth Analysis operates its foreign offices in close collaboration with a number of other Swedish government agencies and organizations, including VINNOVA, the Swedish Agency for Regional and Economical Growth (former name NUTEK) and the Energy Agency.