Press release 2009-10-20

9 cities, among them Stockholm/Kista Science City, participate as category patrtner in the Living Labs Global Showcase Award which promote competition among international solution-, technology- and service providers in order to address major societal problems with innovation.

The winners are invited to pilot their solutions, offering a first step for innovative providers to enter new markets. The jury evaluation criteria are innovation height, potential impact and market potential. The jury is international, and includes public and private leaders as well as experts.

The participating cities are Barcelona (Spain), Chicago, Ill. (US), Caceres (Spain), Eindhoven (Netherlands), Oeiras (Portugal), San Cugat del Vallés (Spain), Taipei (R.O.C.), Comarca La Selva (Spain), Stockholm | Kista Science City (Sweden).

Submission of showcases open until December 1st 2009. Award ceremony, February 14th 2009


Stockholm | Kista Science City
Scandinavia is one of the global hotbeds for telecommunications, ICT and applications of technologies for building advanced information societies.

Stockholm has long acted as one of the leading nodes and gateways into this region, with not only significant research and business leadership, but importantly a very committed city authority working hand in hand with the business community to improve the city's attractiveness and efficiency.

The city is continuously investing in strategic challenges and innovations that have enabled greater service provision to citizens and the business community, often pioneering such concepts in partnership with the high-tech ICT cluster of Kista Science City, co-partner of this category, and home to some more than 1200 ICT companies employing over 65,000 professionals.

- This is a very practical way to showcase innovation, in direct connection to solving challenges that every city and society have, says Anette Scheibe, CEO of the Electrum Foundation and Kista Science City AB, the development organisation for Kista Science City. Stockholm has received a long list of awards for turning societal visions into practice. Recently Stockholm was elected Europe's First Green Capital in 2010, and also won the award Intelligent Community of Year 2009 by ICF, which shows the commitment the city has to seek out solutions that can extend existing and offer new services to citizens and corporations in the city, making extensive use of technology to improve efficiency, accessibility and attractiveness of services.

- Kista Mobile & Multimedia Network have a cooperation with Living Labs Global since we strongly believe in their method of working closely with municipalities and cities across the globe in order to stimulate and introduce innovation and mobile solutions and services to the greater society, says Tomas Bennich, Director Kista Mobile & Multimedia Network.


More information:

Stockholm - the Capital of Scandinavia
http://www.stockholmbusinessregion.com

Kista Science City
http://www.kista.com

LLG Award Categories
http://www.livinglabs-global.com/award

Green Capital
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/europeangreencapital/index_en.htm

IT Intelligent Communities
http://www.intelligentcommunity.org

More information:

Sascha Haselmayer, Director LLG
s.haselmayer@livinglabs-global.com
+34 627 299 588

Tomas Bennich, Director Mobile & Multimedia
Kista Mobile & Multimedia Network
tomas.bennich@kista.com
+46 (0)70 77 19 203

Press contact
Annica Englund, Head of Communication & PR
Kista Science City AB
annica.englund@kista.com
+46 (0)707-71 92 04