Commission on Business will meet in Vaxjo

Vaxjo invites members and representatives from cities interested in membership of the Commission to a two-days meeting held in the Science Park Videum on Vaxjo University Campus in days 11-12 June 2004.

The subjects to be covered include Business Incubators, Science Parks, the IT-cluster InternetCity and the Web Service Competence Centre, other Triple Helix clusters, such as Bioenergy Smaland - Expo Vaxjo, Entrepreneurship and Vaxjo's strategies in various areas, for example Fossil Fuel Free Vaxjo, and Dynamic Vaxjo, a network of 800 citizens interested in contributing to the expansion of the city (you will find more about Vaxjo in the previous bulletins).

Vaxjo, with 76 000 inhabitants, is located right in the middle of southern Sweden and can be reached by flights, train and ferry to Karlskrona. Vaxjo is known for the entrepreneurial spirit and the ingenuity of the citizen, which has resulted in thousands of SMEs, which in turn has resulted in a very low unemployment rate. Because people are apt to take initiatives and then to take action there are always a great number of projects going on, run by various groups. The projects are listed and sometimes coordinated, but rarely managed, by the city. By being first in several areas the city has managed to attract national and EU financial support for the projects.