Stockholm IT Region recently met with Attila Szabo, project manager for Stockholm Science & Innovation School Kista. The City of Stockholm plans to open the upper secondary school – in close cooperation with the local business community, KTH and Stockholm University – in 2013. In this video interview, Attila talks about the School and how [...]
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Swedish companies early adopters of new technology
In their “Global Competitiveness Report 2011-2012,” World Economic Forum ranks Sweden in the top three. This report ranks the most competitive countries around the world. One of reasons behind Sweden’s high position in the list is our investments in technology and innovation. The report focuses on factors that both benefit a nation’s economy as well [...]
Eight Companies from Stockholm on European Top 100 List
The Red Herring editorial team selected the 2010 winners as the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across Europe. The Top 100 Europe are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries. Eight of the [...]
“Mobile innovation and ICT make the world a better place”
- Perhaps our most important export product can be formulated in terms of democracy and freedom, writes Anette Scheibe, president of the Electrum Foundation and Kista Science City AB. This month’s columnist Anette Scheibe writes about the revolution that mobile innovation and ICT means for people around the world. “Mobile money”, E-governance and health care via mobile phones are [...]
Kista in Stockholm becomes the node in the new European venture in information technology
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), the prestigious European venture on technology and innovation, has now appointed the first two Knowledge and Innovation Community, KIC. Within the field of information an communication technology the application with KTH as coordinator – EIT ICT Labs – was selected. Five leading European ICT-clusters are behind the application [...]
