Stockholm Life embraces research, development and business within life science in Stockholm. Here, academic researchers from three universities and numerous healthcare providers, including Sweden’s largest university hospital, interact with leading pharma, medtech and biotech companies.
The region boasts one of Europe’s highest densities of life science companies, organizations and institutes. Our vision is to create a vibrant science city – a society with a mixture of academia, industry, hospitals, residential areas, culture, service and recreation – and a knowledge hub for life science.
Stockholm Life is part of a new city area which is growing by the border between Solna and Stockholm – integrated in the city’s beat, with nature around the corner. Large investments are being made in accommodation, life science-related property and communication so that the area is filled with service, culture and recreation.
In addition, Stockholm Life is a knowledge cluster where academic institutions, life science companies, healthcare providers, authorities within the medical sphere as well as internationally relevant research projects are present in a concentrated area and where the conditions for cooperation are favorable.
Stockholm Science City Foundation is responsible for the brand name Stockholm Life and for the content of this web site.
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What is Life Science?
Life science comprises a series of different subjects such as biology, mathematics, chemistry and medicine. The aim is to improve health and quality of life. Life science knowledge is created by the cooperation between these traditional subjects, but also with physics and technology, not only from academic research but also from the industry world.
Facts
The laser surgery, the pacemaker and the dialysis are only a few examples of Swedish innovations which have improved and prolonged the lives of millions of people around the world. In Europe only three countries – England, France and Germany – have more life science companies than Sweden. In relation to the population, this makes Sweden the most industry dense country in the world.
The Stockholm-Uppsala region hosts some 600 life science companies. The industry in the region employs more than 20 000 people.