Company resources and regional context
As international competition intensifies, the importance of innovative power of companies increases. The strength and resources of each individual company are crucial, but the surrounding regional context plays an increasingly important role.
Access to strong innovation environments contributes to strengthen the competitiveness of new and existing companies. Good regional conditions for development also attract competence, capital and investments. In the county of Skåne in Southern Sweden there is a strong concentration in the ICT-sector of internationally competitive companies and world-class innovation environments.
World giants Sony Mobile Communications and Ericsson have together around 5 000 employees in the area. Smaller innovative firms such as Scalado, Tactel and former TAT (now a part of RIM) are also headquartered here. Specialized academic research and educational institutions as Lund Institute of Technology (LTH) and Malmö University (MAH) constitute a strong infrastructure of knowledge.
In order to reinforce the region’s competitiveness, the industry, academia and the public sector have decided to make a long-term, concentrated investment in the growth sector of mobile communications – by a so-called triple helix-based initiative: Mobile Heights.
Within the framework of Mobile Heights, the parties invest their own and shared resources in order to eliminate structural problems that inhibit innovation, growth and competitiveness. Resources are also used to attract companies, people and capital to the region.
