The Super-Connected City Kista Stockholm Europe
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Coordinator | Kista Science City AB |
Funding from Vinnova | SEK 491 514 |
Project duration | November 2012 - May 2013 |
Status | Completed |
Purpose and goal
A Vinnväxt application could strengthen and develop Kista Science City´s industrial, research and innovation environment by intensifying collaboration with other innovation environments in the entire Stockholm region and projecting the immense power of the potency of ICT on the structural challenges facing the region in order to realize the common visions. The regional dialogue through the process came to be a intense dialogue and cooperation between regional actors and came to create many new contacts, contacts who are ongoing, contacts with a good chance to develop even deeper.
Results and expected effects
The regional actors involved had of course expected that an application for a Vinnväxt platform would be considered favorably by Vinnova. We see that the basic criteria Vinnova states in its support with our application is well met - why we feel well equipped to bring a refined version of our application ´The Super-Connected City´ into a continued regional dialogue.
Approach and implementation
We initially intended to hire a consultant, however dcided the project as ´so close to the heart´, so the company´s marketing manager became appointed the task. Stockholm´s vice CEO was appointed the steering group chairman. The Steering Group was a well represented triple helix of the regional stakeholders and with a reference group from the region´s other clusters. The project´s main components were a large number of interviews, a large number of steering and reference group meetings and one larger workshop. The work would most likely look similarly at a similar upcoming occasion.