What is FPX?

Future Position X (FPX) is the meeting-place for those companies and organisations that promote growth and development within the GIS-field. FPX works to develop the Gavle-region into an international GIS-centre.

FPX is an independent society that supports and develops the member companies’ competitive abilities and presence in the market within the GIS-field. By being a development partner with an innovative and user-friendly perspective, FPX contributes to the forming of new companies and to the growth of these companies. One of the targets of the society is to have participated in the creation of 150 new jobs up to year 2009.

FPX has been lucky during the slightly less than two years we have so far been working in an operative position, which is demonstrated, amongst other things, in the formation of several new companies, 50-odd new vacancies, more than 15 million SEK in seed financing/venture capital, and that the establishment of three foreign companies in the Gavle area within the GIS-field are now in progress. FPX also has established businesses in Norway, Estonia and Finland as well as established a good and close co-operation with Fiber Optic Valley. Much of the work during the first years has been directed towards creating a platform to build the activities upon. Now, when inaugurating the FPX-lab, much of this is in place, and the next phase is to extend the activities and get more participators in the operative work, regionally, nationally and internationally.

FPX has constructed a GIS-Development lab situated in Teknikparken on Nobelvagen in Gavle. The FPX-lab offers opportunities to test, develop and evaluate systems/services in a realistic multi-user environment, a closeness to GIS-competence as well as access to a test population where one can test one’s product on the market.

The lab also functions as a technical base for testing, development, validation and demonstration of GIS-related applications and services.