Stockholm will be a partner of the 3rd St.Petersburg International Innovation Forum
Per Unckel, Governor of the Stockholm Region, has expressed readiness to participate in the 3rd St.Petersburg International Innovation Forum.
Per Unckel will give a speech at the Plenary Session, in which he will share Swedish experience in the field of regional support of innovations.
“Innovation Forum could be used as another step to encourage further contacts between the City of St.Petersburg and Stockholm-Mälar Region” and give the opportunity “to identify innovation spheres to cooperate within”, states Per Unckel in his letter to Govenor Matviyenko.
Participation
of Swedish innovation companies in the “Innovative Russia” Exhibition, which
will be held throughout the Forum, is now being agreed between the parties.
“This year international component of the Innovation Forum will be significantly extended”, says Sergey Fiveysky, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade of St.Petersburg.
Lat year the Forum was attended by representatives from 38 countries. Forum exhibition served as a platform for demonstration of innovative potential of foreign partners of St.Petersburg – Central Finland, Lappeenranta, Dublin, Hamburg, Bayern, Styria, Krakow, Graz, Australia, Denmark, Norway.
Innovation in Stockholm-Mälar Region
Stockholm is one of the leading regions in Europe in technology and support of innovation. The percentage of employees in the high-tech service sector, the percentage of employees with a science and technology background, and the research and development investments’ percentage of the gross regional product are among the highest in the EU. Stockholm is one of the top ten regions in Europe in terms of corporate patenting. The Region is the world leader and second only to Switzerland in regard to the number of patents per capita.
Among the most dynamically developing sectors in Stockholm are ICT, medicine, biotechnology, banking and financing. Clusters in healthcare, culture and arts, management, logistics and engineering have been established in the Region recently.
