Kista () is a district in the
borough
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History
In the Middle A ...
of
Rinkeby-Kista,
Stockholm, Sweden. It has a strategic position located in between Sweden's main airport, the
Stockholm-Arlanda International Airport and central Stockholm, and alongside the main
national highway E4 economic artery. Kista comprises residential and commercial areas, the latter in the highly technological
telecommunication
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and
information technology
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industry.
There are large research efforts in this entire area, which therefore is dubbed Kista Science City. It is the research park of
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
The KTH Royal Institute of Technology ( sv, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, lit=Royal Institute of Technology), abbreviated KTH, is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in engineering and technolog ...
.
Kista is the largest
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) cluster in Europe,
and was ranked the world's second largest cluster after
Silicon Valley
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in
California
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during the internet boom of 2000. It is the largest corporate area in Sweden, important to the national economy
due to the presence of, among others,
Ericsson Group, one of the largest corporations in Sweden.
Kista Science City is the location where a large portion of the research and development of the world's
4G LTE
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mobile telephony infrastructure is being developed, a European
ETSI standard used worldwide and Kista Science City has been the largest such cluster in Europe for decades.
A majority is done at
Ericsson corporation, with 100,000 employees worldwide, but with its research and worldwide headquarters in the Kista Science City.
Kista was named after an old farm "Kista Gård", still located in the area. The construction of the modern parts were started in the 1970s.
Most of the streets in Kista are named after towns and places in
Denmark
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Iceland
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,
Greenland
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, and
Faroe Islands
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They are located north-northwest of Scotland, and about halfway bet ...
. Before the opening of the
Mall of Scandinavia,
Kista Galleria was the biggest shopping center in the
Stockholm region.
Because of its
ICT industries, it became in the 1980s referred to as "Chipsta" and, after Sweden joined the EU in 1995, also as Europe's "Silicon Valley".
Economy
Kista is the largest corporate area in Sweden and important to the national economy.
The construction of the industrial section of Kista began in the 1970s with companies such as SRA (Svenska Radioaktiebolaget, now a part of
Ericsson
(lit. "Telephone Stock Company of LM Ericsson"), commonly known as Ericsson, is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm. The company sells infrastructure, software, and services in informa ...
), RIFA AB (later Ericsson Components AB, and later still Ericsson Microelectronics AB, and now
Infineon Technologies), and IBM Svenska AB (the Swedish branch of
IBM).
Ericsson
(lit. "Telephone Stock Company of LM Ericsson"), commonly known as Ericsson, is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm. The company sells infrastructure, software, and services in informa ...
has had its headquarters in Kista since 2003.
Research and higher learning
Kista hosts entire departments of both
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
The KTH Royal Institute of Technology ( sv, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, lit=Royal Institute of Technology), abbreviated KTH, is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in engineering and technolog ...
, such as Wireless@KTH, and
Stockholm University (formerly jointly known as "the IT University").
There are also Swedish national research institutes (pure research, no students) such as the
Swedish Institute of Computer Science and
Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI who has its headquarters there, just as
Ericsson
(lit. "Telephone Stock Company of LM Ericsson"), commonly known as Ericsson, is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm. The company sells infrastructure, software, and services in informa ...
,
Swedish IBM and
Tele 2, among others has.
Also the Swedish Co-location Centre of EU innovation and entrepreneurial education organisation
EIT Digital is located in Kista and offers a 2-year Master program
in collaboration with
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
The KTH Royal Institute of Technology ( sv, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, lit=Royal Institute of Technology), abbreviated KTH, is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in engineering and technolog ...
.
Gallery
See also
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Kista Science Tower
*
Kista metro station
References
External links
Kista Science CityKista Business Network
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Districts in Västerort
Metropolitan Stockholm
High-technology business districts