[1] There are large research efforts in this entire area, which therefore is dubbed Kista Science City.
[5] Most of the streets in Kista are named after towns and places in Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands.
Before the opening of the Mall of Scandinavia, Kista Galleria was the biggest shopping center in the Stockholm region.
Because of its ICT industries, it became in the 1980s referred to as "Chipsta"[6] and, after Sweden joined the EU in 1995, also as Europe's "Silicon Valley".
Also the Swedish Co-location Centre[9] of EU innovation and entrepreneurial education organisation EIT Digital is located in Kista and offers a 2-year Master program[10] in collaboration with KTH Royal Institute of Technology.