Business and Science Parks

The concept Business and Science Parks characterizes an area where companies active in research, education, high technology and IT are offered attractive premises at a good price in a creative and dynamic environment.
Concentrating many developing companies within the same area produces good conditions for joint development projects, new companies, network building and technology transfer.
Business Parks are company parks with mainly office tenants in service industries, which are not directly associated with a university or other institutes of higher education. Science Parks are meeting places for knowledge intensive companies and are characterized by being close to universities or other institutes of higher education and collaboration with the business sector, municipalities and cultural institutions.

Dominant player in six parks
The rental value of Klövern’s Business and Science Parks amounted at year-end 2010 to almost SEK 600 million, which corresponds to 40 per cent of the total rental value. The economic occupancy rate at the parks was 89 per cent.
The content of the parks is often governed by the profile areas, which are associated with the respective park.

Karlstad Business Park has the emphasis on companies producing services.
Kista Science City is world-leading in ICT (Information, Communication and Technology), primarily in mobile and wireless communication, multimedia and broadband systems.
Linköping’s Mjärdevi Science Park is focused on image processing, analysis, media technology, telecommunications and signal processing as well as vehicle safety.
Norrköping Science Park has focus areas in visualization, interactive services and printed electronics.
Uppsala Business Park has a strong link with life science with biochemical manufacturing and research.
Örebro’s Business Science Arena specializes in robotics, distribution logistics and nutrition