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IT and Telecom Companies in Kista Science City, Northern Stockholm Munich Personal RePEc Archive IT and telecom companies in Kista Science City, Northern Stockholm Sandberg, Åke and Augustsson, Fredrik and Lintala, Anne National Institute for Working Life / Arbetslivsinstitutet, Sweden 2007 Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10743/ MPRA Paper No. 10743, posted 25 Sep 2008 11:37 UTC Åke Sandberg, Fredrik Augustsson and Anne Lintala IT and Telecom Companies in Kista Science City, Northern Stockholm – activities, networks, skills and local Qualities ARBETSLIV I OMVANDLING WORK LIFE IN TRANSITION | 2007:1 ISBN 978-91-7045-814-9 | ISSN 1404-8426 National Institute for Working Life The National Institute for Working Life is a na- tional centre of knowledge for issues concerning working life. The Institute carries out research and development covering the whole field of working life, on commission from The Ministry of Industry, Employment and Communications. Research is multi- disciplinary and arises from problems and trends in working life. Communication and information are important aspects of our work. For more informa- tion, visit our website www.arbetslivsinstitutet.se Work Life in Transition is a scientific series published by the National Institute for Working Life. Within the series dissertations, anthologies and original research are published. Contributions on work or- ganisation and labour market issues are particularly welcome. They can be based on research on the deve- lopment of institutions and organisations in work life but also focus on the situation of different groups or individuals in work life. A multitude of subjects and different perspectives are thus possible. The authors are usually affiliated with the social, behavioural and humanistic sciences, but can also be found among other researchers engaged in research which supports work life development. The series is intended for both researchers and others interested in gaining a deeper understanding of work life issues. Manuscripts should be addressed to the Editor and will be subjected to a traditional review procedure. The series primarily publishes contributions by aut- hors affiliated with the National Institute for Wor- king Life. ARBETSLIV I OMVANDLING WORK LIFE IN TRANSITION Editor-in-chief: Eskil Ekstedt Co-editors: Jonas Malmberg, Anders Neergaard, Lena Pettersson, Ann-Mari Sätre Åhlander and Annette Thörnquist © National Institute for Working Life & authors, 2007 National Institute for Working Life, SE-113 91 Stockholm, Sweden ISBN 978-91-7045-814-9 ISSN 1404-8426 Printed at Elanders Gotab, Stockholm Preface This report, as indicated by its title IT companies in Kista, describes companies and establishments in the Kista area north of Stockholm that are active in IT and telecommunications. Kista and the IT companies have long attracted media attention and been the subject of debate and some research. Kista has stood out as a leading IT and telecom cluster and as the location for many of the biggest and most influential companies. The area has scored high in international rankings and has acquired a number of epithets including ‘mobile valley’. There has however been limited documented knowledge of the companies in Kista, how they cooperate and are organised and what they think of Kista as a place of business. There are also shortcomings in knowledge about the emp- loyees, their skills, development opportunities and health. The aim of the study reported here is to contribute up-to-date empirical facts about the companies by documenting responses from the establishment managements of IT-related com- panies in Kista. The study was performed as part of the MITIOR programme (media, IT and innovation in organisation and work) at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life and NADA (Royal Institute of Technology department working with numerical analysis, computer science, computer interaction and media tech- nology). The study has been led by Professor Åke Sandberg and conducted in cooperation with Kista Science City AB (KSC). The project group include analyst Anne Lintala, researcher Fredrik Augustsson and in some parts doctoral student Karin Darin. The report is part of the MITIOR programme’s research into the interplay between new forms of technology, organisation and management with the aim of identifying and supporting good jobs with development potential in efficient, long-term sustainable companies. This is the fifth descriptive report of the empirical studies that we have carried out. Earlier studies were based on res- ponses from managements of specialised interactive media companies (Sandberg 1998, Sandberg & Augustsson 2002) as well as major Swedish companies and public agencies that have in-house production of interactive media solutions (Augustsson & Sandberg 2004a). In 2005 we published a fourth report based on questionnaires answered by employees of companies producing interactive media solutions (Sandberg et al., forthcoming). The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA) has helped fund the study, which was conducted at the Work and Health unit at the Institute under the auspices of the theme of Arbetsliv i storstad (Working life in urban areas), and at the Center for user-oriented IT Design (CID) at the School of Computer Science and communication, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm i In preparing and reporting the study, we have had useful contact with Electrum and Kista Science City AB, above all through the company’s CEO Per-Anders Hedkvist and later Magdalena Bosson, as well as the then marketing manager Mattias Bäckman. Advice on the wording of questions and the analysis was provided by Tomas Lindh in particular, but also Malin Bolin, Klas Gustavsson, Annika Härenstam and Anders Wikman at the National Institute for Working Life. Casten von Otter provided support and useful comments. Daniel Högberg commented an earlier version in the light of his own ongoing surveys in Kista. In tests of the question- naire we received valuable feedback from Mia Kaasalainen, Excosoft AB; Bo Löwstedt, Technia; Göran Hellberg, TietoEnator; John Kindborg, Peppar Mobil; Mattias Bäckman, Kista Science City AB (KSC) and Magnus Östberg, from the Competence newspaper. Delegates at the conference at the Campus IT University in Kista and at a CID seminar at which a preliminary version of the report was presented provided good pointers for revision. Those who commented on the report at the KTH IT University Campus in Kista included panellists Madgalena Bosson, KSC; Jonas Dallöf, i3 micro technology; Fredrik Hånell, Phoxtal; Kjell Jonsson, Sif (Non manual workers’ union); Anna Svärdemo-Alander, Sinf (The Swedish Industry Association) and Tommy Tengvall, Interverbum. Finally, a special word of thanks to the managements of over a hundred establishments that responded to the questionnaire. This report has previously been published in Swedish as ‘IT-företagen i Kista’ (2005). Apart from minor corrections and some updates, the Swedish and English versions of the report are identical. Stockholm, April 2004 and January 2007 Åke Sandberg ii Contents Preface i List of figures v List of Tables vi Introduction: IT and Kista 1 Delimitations of ‘IT in Kista’ 3 Outline 5 A Brief Note on Method 6 IT Companies and Establishments in Kista 7 Kista – from ABC to KSC 7 New Establishment and Experience in IT 9 Size of the Sector 11 Business Activities 13 Clusters of Activities 14 Activities Besides IT 15 Cooperative Ventures and Networks of Companies 16 Outsourced Activities 17 Peripheral Operations and Support Functions 19 Subcontract Work 21 Interactive Media Companies 24 Other Local Co-operations 26 Kista’s Qualities as a Business Location 29 What does Kista Offer? 30 What is Important to IT Companies? 32 Kista gets Top Marks 34 Work and Employees 38 The Total Number of Employees and within IT 39 Labour Turnover 40 A Man’s Job? Gender and IT 42 Age 44 Working Hours, Overtime and Remuneration 45 Education and Competence Development 47 Levels of Formal Education 47 Important Skills in IT 48 Sources of Skills 50 iii Competence Development: Resources, Utilisation and Organisation 52 Salary and Other Remunerations 55 Work Environment, Agreements and Unionisation 58 Concluding Discussion 60 Growth and Activities 60 Extent of Kista’s IT Related Activities 60 Activities 61 Cooperative Ventures and Networks 61 Good Marks for Kista – Without Clusters 63 Those who Work in Kista 64 Design of the Study and Methodology 66 Delimitations of ‘IT in Kista’ 66 Design of Questionnaire 68 Sampling 69 Data Collection 70 Results and Response Rate 70 Analysis of Non-Respondents 72 Number of Establishments 73 Summary 74 Sammanfattning 75 References 76 Table Appendix 81 The Mitior Programme 99 Sub-Studies 99 Publications 100 iv List of Figures Figure 1. Year of firm establishment, start of IT activities and location to Kista. Figure 2. Number of companies with operations in other locations before establishing in Kista. Figure 3. Proportion of establishments in Kista that often, sometimes or never perform various IT related activities. Figure 4. Proportion of establishments that perform various activities besides IT. Figure 5. Proportion of establishments that have wholly or partially outsourced various IT related activities to other companies in Kista and outside Kista. Figure 6. Proportion of establishments that wholly or partially outsourced peripheral activities not related to IT to other companies in and outside Kista, and proportion that did not outsource at all the past twelve months. Figure 7. Proportion of establishments
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