Thiruvananthapuram (IANS) : A Swedish team visiting the country is holding talks with companies in Technopark campus here to explore possibilities of business deals between IT firms of the two countries.
The Swedish team consisted of Maria Johansson of Aurorum Science Park, and Michael Nilsson of Centre for Distance-Spanning Technology (CDT) of the Lulea University of Technology in Sweden.
Speaking to IANS, Johansson said that they held exploratory talks with a few IT companies in Technopark and have been impressed with the outcome.
“The possible areas of future cooperation between Swedish companies and IT firms here include outsourcing solutions and product development,” said Johansson.
Aurorum Science Park is a member of SISP (Swedish Incubators and Science Parks), an umbrella organisation for technology and science parks in Sweden.
Nilsson told IANS that they would now work as facilitators for Swedish companies who are looking forward to striking deals in places like Kerala that have good positions on the human development index.
“Our visit is the second after a team from Sweden, part of ‘Invest in Sweden Agency’, visited here early this year. We will now discuss with interested companies in Sweden on what we have seen here at Technopark. We are confident that possible links between Sweden and Technopark would be charted out,” said Nilsson.
The role of CDT is to support their partners and customers in embracing new opportunities. CDT’s specialty is to generate and exploit groundbreaking innovations with and for their partners.
Technopark houses 130 IT companies, which employs more than 17,000 people.