Kista is not only strategically important for Stockholm, it is at least as important for all of Sweden, if, even in the future we are to be in the forefront of developments within the telecommunications- IT sector. Kista and Akalla s industrial areas belong to the most desired establishment areas in the world for market-leading companies. Kista Science Park promulgates a network between companies in Kista, the Royal Institute of Technical and the University of Stockholm. They work for incubating new companies out of the Kista environment from the established companies and university environment. The Kista Borough Council, the commercial sector and the Universities cooperate to increase growth and utilize the local labor force of the Borough and surrounding areas, one which represents a multitude of language and international cultural skills.
Cooperation takes place over municipal borders.
Together there is a wealthy, broadly based business community and municipalities which can cooperate to further develop a school system and variations in housing forms. Florence was known for tensions between the land owners, tradesmen, bankers, workers and even different families. Kista is a rainbow of cultures, religions, languages, and nationalities, where the democratic meeting between companies, residents and the public sector can create growth. And if we seriously mean to work with social and ethnic segregation issues, the programs must be related to the individual, and not a collective body. This applies to the business community as well as the public sector.