The combination of businesses, research, housing, meeting places, restaurants, and services makes Hagastaden a vibrant innovation district. When it is fully developed, the area will have nearly 50,000 workplaces and 6,000 new homes. Now, there is a chance to establish an office with a lab in the building Life City, in the center of Hagastaden.

During the spring, Karolinska Institutet (KI) and Karolinska University Hospital started collaborating with AstraZeneca and Elekta. The walking distance within Hagastaden facilitates collaboration.

How can innovation district stay relevant? What are the challenges? Travis McCready, JLL, one of the speakers at the summit Navigating the Future of Innovation Districts tries to answer these questions.

AstraZeneca, Karolinska Institutet, and Karolinska University Hospital have entered a strategic tripartite collaboration aiming to give patients in Sweden faster access to tailored prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. Emelie Antoni tells more.

The theme for The Future of Life Science 2024 was Creeping crises connected to our health and how the life science sector can help manage these crises. We will continuously publish interviews with some of the participants. Magnus Björsne at AstraZeneca BioVenture Hub was one of the speakers at the symposium.

Beth O'Neill Maloney, Executive Director at Kendall Square Association, is one of the speakers at the summit Navigating the Future of Innovation Districts. Here, she explains the secret sauce of innovation success and the future challenges Kendall Square faces.

Health Data Sweden (HDS) is a European digital innovation hub, EDIH, that helps SMEs and the public sector digitize health data. The three-year EU-funded project is in full swing, with half the time left. Frida Lindberg from KTH leads the operational work as Hub Manager.

The recently introduced Circle of Life Science program seeks to promote innovation driven by needs and focused on care by redefining collaboration between innovative companies and healthcare organizations.