Innovation Center Denmark

Innovation Center Denmark
Miscellaneous governmental non profit office
Industry Advisors
Founded 2006
Headquarters Palo Alto, Silicon Valley
Products Facilitate, connect, innovate and incubate
Slogan Facilitate, Connect, Innovate
Website www.innovationcenterdenmark.com

Innovation Center Denmark is a consultant cooperative that bridges Danish technology companies with Silicon Valley organizations. Innovation Center Denmark’s objective is to connect research, investors, entrepreneurs and companies together as well as provide advisory services for Danish companies seeking to expand or establish business into Silicon Valley. Innovation Center Denmark is a joint effort between The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. It’s headquartered in Palo Alto, California, but also has offices in Munich, New Delhi, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, and Tokyo.[1][2]

History

Innovation Center Denmark is located at 200 Page Mill Road, suite 100, in Palo Alto, California.

On June 4, 2006, His Royal Highness, Prince Joachim of Denmark opened Innovation Center Denmark in Palo Alto, California. This Center, in Silicon Valley, set out to be a pilot project tasked with creating a sustainable, innovative business model. The result hereof was a decision to open the next Innovation Center Denmark in Shanghai in September 2007.

Organization

Innovation Center Denmark is a co-operation between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (The Danish Trade Council and Invest in Denmark) and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.

Innovation Center Denmark is a result of the Danish government’s globalization strategy with the objective to turn Denmark into a leading knowledge based economy by 2016. This objective calls for new approaches to position Denmark in the global value chain.

Innovation Center Denmark is the sixth Danish diplomatic mission in the U.S. and attempts a close relationship and co-operation with the Danish Embassy in Washington, and the four Danish Trade Representations.

Objectives

The objective of Innovation Center Denmark is to link companies, investors, research and innovation communities in Denmark and Silicon Valley. As part of this role, the objective is for it to facilitate the entry of high potential Danish companies into Silicon Valley, to attract inbound investment into Denmark and serve as the link between research and innovation environments in the U.S. and Denmark.

The focus is on traditional Silicon Valley clusters, i.e. ICT (Information & Communication Technology), Life Sciences, Clean Tech and related areas like design and education.

Services

Innovation Center Denmark offers a services to support the different objectives for the center. All services are customized to each assignment in order to ensure the most beneficial output for the client.

The services are delivered in close cooperation with external strategic partners and supported by the other Danish Representations in the U.S.

To support the needs of Danish high growth knowledge-intensive companies at various stages of their life cycle the following services are offered:

Silicon Valley Entry

Market assessment / Initial market research to support Review Board presentation

Capital Connection

Connected Research

Invest in Denmark

See also

References

  1. "Company Overview of Innovation Center Denmark". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  2. "About Us". Innovation Centre of Denmark. Retrieved 2 March 2016.

External links

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