Stockholm Green Innovation District

Leadership for sustainable and attractive cities

Stockholm Green Innovation District is Stockholm’s new growth area for innovation and sustainability, an area stretching from Årsta to Sickla with the Tvärbanan light rail as a connecting link. It is being developed in collaboration between the City of Stockholm, Nacka Municipality, large and small companies, civil society and research organisations such as KTH Royal Institute of Technology, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden.

Our goal

is to renew and build sustainable districts with innovative, climate-smart solutions.
We wish to share our experiences with other districts and cities in Sweden and abroad.

Who are we?

The City of Stockholm, Atrium Ljungberg, Skanska, ElectriCITY, Envac, Internetstiftelsen, KTH, Rise, SISAB, Skistar, SVOA, Stockholm Exergi, Stockholm Water Innovation Centre, Stockholm Region EU Office,
Smart City Sweden, Nacka municipality, Urban Tech Sweden, Invest Stockholm, Green City Ferries

Housing for at least 20,000 people

Workplaces for at least 20,000 people

Wastewater
treatment for the whole
of Stockholm

Citizen-driven climate transition

Hammarby-
backen for sports and leisure

Stockholm is the EU’s most innovative region

Stockholm Green Innovation District has the strength to operate within the EU’s most innovative region, the Stockholm region. Our ambition is to help strengthen this position. Stockholm’s leadership is evident from the 2021 edition of the European Commission’s comparative study known as the “Regional Innovation Scoreboard”. The European Commission conducts this analysis of 240 regions in Europe on a biannual basis. Stockholm was ranked third in 2015, second in 2019, and now in 2021 Stockholm is in first place.

To measure the innovation capacity of the regions included in the Regional innovation scoreboard, the Commission uses performance indicators in four areas: conditions for innovation (staff, research systems and digitalisation), public and private investments (funding and support, business investment and the use of information technology), innovation activities (innovators, interconnections and intellectual assets), and impact (employment effects, sales effects and environmental sustainability). Read the full report here.

When the European Commission conducts a similar study of the Member States’ innovation capacity, Sweden comes in first, followed by Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands.