Strategic upgrading through the inflow of FDI

STRATEGIC UPGRADING THROUGH THE INFLOW OF FDI

Facilitator:		Rolf Rising, Director, Head of IT and Electronics, ISA - Invest in Sweden Agency, Sweden
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Documentation:		Magnus Eklund, Marit Werner, Uppsala University
Abstract/Key issues: For a knowledge based society the interaction between industry, institute and university is a driving factor for clustering in different areas. The industry needs access to the university-institute research and the later organizations need access to a powerful industrial customer base. This is especially in the area of microelectronics and telecom systems, in which areas the knowledge development tends to be market driven. In Sweden we now tend to have imbalance in several such clusters where the actual university capability has outgrown the industrial demand in that cluster. To sustain its excellence such clusters may be helped by the infusion of FDI in terms of new industrial customers with advance demand. To identify and find such investors is a strategic issue of importance for the cluster as a whole.