Stockholm Business Region contributed to 71 foreign direct investments during 2009, according to the year-end result. That was an increase from last year, and constituted nearly half of all foreign direct investments to Sweden.
The City of Stockholm is now partnering with Internet and new media conference SIME. The reason is SIME’s long-term commitment to arranging international ICT events in Stockholm.
The City of Stockholm has been awarded the Intelligent Community of the Year 2009. The award was announced May 15th at the annual Building the Broadband Economy conference in New York. The award is presented by the Intelligent Community Forum, ICF.
Intelligent Community Forum, ICF, named the City of Stockholm as one of the Top Seven Intelligent Communities of 2009 at a 21 January ceremony during PTC'09, the annual conference of the Pacific Telecommunications Council in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Stockholm needs more hotels in order to meet the considerable increasing tourism sector. A Budget hotels and exclusive 5-star hotels are in demand according to a hotel report, commissioned by The City of Stockholm
Peter Lindqvist is the new CEO of Stockholm Visitors Board, the City of Stockholm’s marketing and development company for the travel industry. The company is a subsidiary to Stockholm Business Region.
October 1st Anna Gissler will become the new CEO of Stockholm Business Region Development, the investment promotion and business development company for the City of Stockholm.
Stockholm is the 6th most competitive knowledge economy in the world according to World Knowledge Competitive Index 2008. Stockholm is also the only European region among the top ten, otherwise dominated by North America.
R2-D2, the know-it-all robot that serves humans in the Star Wars films, is hardly the answer. The vacuum-cleaner robots, with the ability to scrub corners clean, are much clearer indicators of the needs of the future. But the next generation of robots needs to have advanced skills in order to support human needs such as care, thoughtfulness and companionship. The robot, Bestic, is showing the way to the future.
The economic growth in Stockholm region is at top levels, for the second quarter in a row. It’s the highest since early 2000. That was reviled by the report Stockholmskonjunkturen.
Sweden is Europe’s most digitalized country, one of the worlds most competitive, as well as a one of the world safest places to invest. All according to several different international ranking lists and indexes that has been recently published.
Stockholm, Sweden will host ETRE 2008, European Technology Round Table Exhibition. The conference takes place October 14-17 2008 and is arranged by Red Herring. Its the main European event where executives from venture capital and finance industry meet established as well as start-ups from the hi-tech industry.
Stockholm is Europe’s leading region in developing extremely fast-growing and successful technology companies. Of the 20 top companies on this year’s Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list four companies are from Stockholm. No other European region has so many companies that are ranked among the top 20 on the list.
The German pharmaceutical company Bayer Schering Pharma has chosen Stockholm for its Scandinavian head office. Stockholm’s strong position as home to one of the world’s premier Life Science clusters was a key factor behind the company’s strategic decision.
Representatives of the world’s airlines and airports will be gathering in Stockholm for an intensive three-day meeting to discuss new routes and destinations. The meeting, called Routes 2007, will take place on 23-25 September and is being organised by Stockholm Arlanda Airport and the City of Stockholm.
Stockholm’s financial market is the hottest in Europe, after London and Paris, for foreign direct investments according to Ernst & Young’s European Investment Monitor 2007.
Stockholm is further strengthening its position as the most attractive city in Scandinavia for business travellers and tourists. In 2006 a new record was set, with 8.9 million overnight stays in commercial forms of accommodation. Foreign visitors accounted for 3 million of these stays. Visitors from Germany, Britain, the USA and Norway top the list.
Stockholm is investing yet another EUR 70.5 million in Internet services for its citizens. Everything will be accessible on the Internet – the city’s complete public services within schools, childcare and housing for the elderly. The investment will also help make Stockholm the world’s most accessible city for people with functional disabilities.
The goal is to develop 100 new Internet services for the Stockholmers before the end of 2009.
The property market in Stockholm is among the strongest in Europe. In connection with the world’s premier real estate summit, MIPIM in Cannes, several leading analysis companies are emphasizing that Stockholm will be a continuing strong, expansive and profitable market.
Cinnober Financial Technology has just placed its first order with an international bank consortium, for a real-time platform allowing financial trade that meets with the new EU directive, MiFID. ‘BOAT’, is the brand name of the international consortium of nine leading investment banks, which has created a new market place for financial institutions based on Cinnober’s ICT platform and technology. They offer their services to Europe’s stock exchanges, equity dealers and financial business actors.
Stockholm is strengthening its already solid position as the economic capital of Scandinavia. The Swedish capital is being ranked as the fifth most expansive city economy, up from ninth place last year, in a recent survey of 91 European cities by real estate adviser Jones Lang LaSalle. Highest growth is expected in London, which thwarts Paris from the long-kept throne.
Stockholm – December 5, 2006
Ms Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, founder of Biacon and one of the wealthiest women in India, was recently elected as a distinguished member of the board of The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). She is also on the lookout for research partners in Stockholm to India’s rapidly growing biotech industry.
Multidisciplinary ICT-based research groups are developed in Kista Science City in Stockholm to conquer global competition within sustainable ubiquitous intelligence solutions. The goal is to design new smart applications that support and simplify our everyday life.
Stockholm, Paris and London attract most investments in Europe and Stockholm is in the lead as an investment region in the areas of Financial Services, Business Services and Electronics.
