Kista

Coordinates: 59°24′05″N 17°56′40″E / 59.40139°N 17.94444°E / 59.40139; 17.94444
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This article is about Swedish district. For other uses, see Kista (disambiguation).
Aerial overview of central Kista. Foto: JM AB. Fotograf: Gustav Kaiser
Aerial overview of central Kista
Victoria Tower in Kista

Kista (Swedish pronunciation:

KTH Royal Institute of Technology
.

Kista is the largest Information and Communications Technology (ICT) cluster in Europe,[2] and was ranked the world's second largest[3] cluster after Silicon Valley in California during the internet boom of 2000. It is the largest corporate area in Sweden, important to the national economy[4] due to the presence of, among others, Ericsson, 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 mobile telephony infrastructure is being developed, to a European ETSI standard used worldwide.[2] A majority is done at Ericsson, 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.

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"[6] and, after Sweden joined the EU in 1995, also as Europe's "Silicon Valley".[5][7]

Economy

Kista is the largest corporate area in Sweden and important to the national economy.[1] The construction of the industrial section of Kista began in the 1970s with companies such as SRA (Svenska Radioaktiebolaget, now a part of

IBM). Ericsson has had its headquarters in Kista since 2003.[4]

Research and higher learning

Kista hosts entire departments of both

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, such as Wireless@KTH, and Stockholm University (formerly jointly known as "the IT University").[8]

There are also Swedish national research institutes (pure research, no students) such as the

Tele 2
, among others has.

Also the Swedish Co-location Centre

KTH Royal Institute of Technology
.

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-92-64-19515-8
    .
  2. ^ a b "Hem - Kista Science City".
  3. ^ Page 84. The Business of Global Energy Transformation: Saving Billions through Sustainable Models. Mats R. Larsson. Global Energy Transformation Institute. 2012, Palgrave Macmillan. Macmillan Publishers Limited, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, United Kingdom. https://books.google.com/books?id=RX4x1amBi44C&dq=Global+Transformation+kista&pg=PA84
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-1-4697-2393-8
    .
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-92-64-07329-6
    .
  6. ISBN 9781317917458
    .
  7. ^ "Overclocking at Intel". Nordichardware.se. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  8. ISBN 978-0-85793-351-5
    .
  9. ^ "EIT Digital Stockholm Node". EIT Digital corporate website. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
  10. ^ "Master's Programme, ICT Innovation, 120 credits (TIVNM), Programme syllabus for studies starting in autumn 2018, Implementation of the education | KTH". www.kth.se. Retrieved 2018-11-12.

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