KISTA SCIENCE CITY: Mats Hedenstrm, Marketing Director

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KISTA SCIENCE CITYMats Hedenström, Marketing
Director
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WORLD LEADING ICT CLUSTER
Land area 2,000,000 m2 Office space 1,100,000
m2 1350 companies 30,000 employees 4,000
students Activities started 1975 City of
Stockholm, Ericsson, Royal Institute of
Technology and the real estate owner group
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CHALLENGES IN JOINT CLUSTERING

• Compete or cooperate why not combine?
• Local, regional, national and international level
  Europe vs USA
• Comparisson for cooperation benchmark
• We must accept differencies focus on comparable
  issues
• Learn and implement, not cut and paste
• Networking lasting result of European projects

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CHALLENGES IN JOINT CLUSTERING

• Incresed growth increases opportunities for
  everyone
• Focus on opportunities not potential obstacles!
• A few examples of cooperation between
  competitors
• Joint research institute in Kista between
  Ericsson and Nokia
• Eurooffice possibilites to get access to
  offices all over Europé
• European Institute of Technology Swedish and
  Finnish joint application with strong support
  from both the private and the public sector

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Thank You for Your interest in Kista Science
City!mats.hedenstrom_at_kista.com