Today the city is proud of its high tech profile but this is not the whole truth. Linköping has a very varied business sector with a large number of small and medium sized companies. The business community in Linköping is differentiated with some very strong business areas active in such industries as aviation, food ,engineering, computer/electronics and graphic.

The largest company in the municipality is Saab AB, other major employers are Ericsson, Swedish Meats and Cloetta. IFS, the business systems company, have based its headquarters in Linköping as has Sectra. Also located in the city is FOI, Swedish Defence Research Agency; VTI, Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute; SGI, Swedish Geotekniska Institute and SKL, Swedish National Laboratory of Forensic Science.

Linköping University with its Faculty of Health Sciences and the Institute of Technology form the most important regional foundation for cooperation between research and development and also contribute towards strengthening and rejuvenating the business community in Linköping.Naturally, the University is exceedingly important in providing a well-educated work force which can be recruited by existing companies as well as businesses considering locating to Linköping municipality.

Today there are over 9,000 companies employing in excess of 66,000 people in Linköping. The city has a unique concentration of talents attracting clever young people active within the technology and natural sciences fields. Many existing and newly established companies have been able to benefit from these people which in no small way have contributed to Linköping being one of Sweden’s fastest growing expansive cities over the last decade making it the country’s fifth largest city.