Technology transfer news

Progress in the collaboration between public research and industries

It takes two to tango: Public Danish research institutions want a closer collaboration with the business community.

Summer school supports company innovation

Innovation is at the school timetable for 36 elite students and six companies for five weeks.

Private trust out to attract Danish researchers

The Lundbeck foundation plans to spend a quarter of a billion Danish crones on helping Danish researcher stay and research in Denmark.

200.000 Euro for entrepreneurship education and training

Øresund Entrepreneurship Academy aims to be a world leader among entrepreneurship academies.

Investor pave the way for growth in research based company

Research from University of Aalborg is backing the company Structural Vibrations Solutions Ltd.

Opening of new Danish innovation centre in Munich

Munich has been chosen for its leading research and innovation environments as well as for its waste commercial markets.

Creative Nation – collaboration for a more sustainable future

Creative Nation is internationally promoting the competencies, dynamism, and strong tradition of innovation of Danish enterprises.

TECH TRANS south is launched

Odense University Hospital opens new office for technology transfer (TECH TRANS), which supports many different types of public-private co-operation.

Public Research Commercialisation Survey – Denmark 2006

A new statistical survey on public reserch commercialisation in Denmark is now available in English from The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation.

Pan-European technological co-operation

The Danish National Network for Technology Transfer joins forces with the European IRC Network.

Number 8 in Europe

University of Copenhagen is the only Danish university, ranked on the top 100 European universities.

Danish venture capital fond invests millions in nanotechnology

So far the venture capital fond Via Venture Partners has invested in 4 Danish and 2 Finnish companies, as well as 1 Swedish and 1 Norwegian company.

Nordic Technology Transfer Network - an e-based knowledge pool network

The Nordic Technology Transfer Network is officially launched with the aim of creating a network of small and big businesses, science parks and universities in the Nordic Region.

CTIF-India inaugurated

The new branch of CTIF was established at the premises of the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

Red Dot Design Award

Center for Interactive Spaces received the "red dot: best of the best award" for the Wisdom Well design concept, in the red dot design museum, Singapore.

2007 Student Paper Award 1st Place

Phd student Cecilia Cappellin received the "2007 Student Paper Award 1st Place" for her scientific paper "Application of the SWE-to-PWE Antenna Diagnostics Technique to an Offset Reflector Antenna" at the AMTA 2007 symposium recently.

The hunt for top 10 of Denmark’s fast-growing companies

GazelleGrowth has established a world-class foundation for internationalizing Danish gazelle companies thanks to the support of the Danish Ministry for Science, Technology, and Innovation.

Øresund Entrepreneurship Academy finances entrepreneurship education

Øresund Entrepreneurship Academy awards DKK 500.000 to help the universities in the Øresund Region become world leading in the field of Entrepreneurship.

Public research is its money worth

Danish technology transfer is now showing substantial commercial results from public research institutions. This is primarily seen as an effect of a mental and cultural transformation among public researchers and institutions during the latest 6-7 years.

350 million for elite researchers at University of Copenhagen

The University of Copenhagen gives out DKK 350 million to 20 of the most talented researchers. The funds come from the University’s Programme of Excellence.

Entrepreneur Day 2008

The yearly Entrepreneur Day is directed at everyone with an interest in the processes of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship – from entrepreneurs, company owners, advisors, researchers, public servants and politicians in Denmark.

Significant rise in the interest for business-PhD

The Danish business-PhD arrangement is gaining serious popularity. The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation has thus received 174 applications in 2007 – an increase of 34 percent compared to 2006.

Denmark looks to turn a common seaweed into biofuel

Energinet.dk puts DKK 8.5m of funding into a project designed to assess the potential of producing bioethanol from sea lettuce.

Sustainable energy research gets state funding

The Danish Council for Strategic Research grants DKK 30m to the new Center for Energy Materials.

Impressive international honour to Danish professor in computer science

Professor Christian S. Jensen at Aalborg University (AAU), one of Denmark’s leading researchers of computer science, has been appointed IEEE Fellow by his international colleagues. Only six active researchers in Denmark have received this honour.

North Jutland region leading the hydrogen front

A research report from the consultant agency Rambøll Management recommends, that the knowledge of hydrogen and fuel cell technology is collected in the North Jutland region of Denmark, where University of Aalborg and Hydrogen Valley in the city of Hobro are leading the field of hydrogen research.

The opening ceremony of Nordic Patent Institute

After many years of preparations and effort put into the project, the Nordic Patent Institute finally became a reality. The 10 January 2008, the Institute was officially launched at the Danish Patent and Trademark Office, where the Institute will reside.

Chinese Area studies

Studies of International Affairs at Aalborg University have added a new integral part of the existing masters programs with its Chinese Area studies, reflecting the scale of China’s current and expected impact on the world economy and international relations.

Elite education programme in jeopardy

A conflict between the European Union's rules and Denmark's education laws has put the prestigious Erasmus Mundus programme in jeopardy at Danish universities.

Nano membrane for clean water production

DTU Nanotech at The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) coordinates a project, which will result in the upscaling of a membrane to be 20 x 20 cm. By the end of the project the membrane will be marketed.

Telescopes for finding life in the universe – and studying the life of the universe

With a grant of DKK 10 million (approximately EUR 1.3 million) from a private foundation, Danish researchers can possibly find an answer to the important questions people have been asking at all times.

Denmark among the most innovative countries in the world

The EU-Commission place Denmark as the fifth most innovative country among the worlds leading countries: Sweden, Finland, Germany, Israel, Japan and Switzerland. This is the conclusion in the newly published report: "European Innovation Scoreboard 2007".

Danish researchers in the top league

The renowned journal Nature has published a list of the most important articles from Nature in 2007. This list includes two articles from Danish researchers, who also achieved the honour of having their work featured on the front page of Nature.

Denmark leads in environmental patents

A recent report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows, that during the last 25 years Denmark is the western country with the highest growing amount of patents on renewable energy - compared to country size.

Strategy for Knowledge Based Collaboration between Denmark and China

The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation's strategy for knowledge-based collaboration between Denmark and China provides priorities and launches new initiatives to strengthen collaboration with China in the fields of research, innovation and university education.

An inner market for knowledge in EU

The Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen comments in a debate column, that his vision is a European knowledge space where ideas, students, researchers and teachers can move freely across borders.

Biofuel: a cheaper alternative to coal

Two of Denmark's largest coal consumers, Dong Energy and Vattenfall, are now seriously considering speeding up the process of replacing fossil fuels with biofuel to produce 'green' electricity.

PhD-success at Aarhus University

Aarhus University shows a remarkable success by attracting 40 percent more PhD-students in 2007 than in 2006.

DONG Energy is new corporate partner at Copenhagen Business School

The largest energy company in Denmark to meet Copenhagen Business School's students.

Lundbeck boss quits

CEO Claus Bræstrup of pharmaceutical giant Lundbeck has stepped down just one day after Lundbeck posted its highest profits ever.

Thai school excels in Copenhagen Business School's competition

Thammasat University bested 11 of the world's top business schools to win Copenhagen Business School's 2008 Case Competition.

Inside Service Innovation - Challenging Policy

The growth of the Danish service economy has triggered an enormous interest among academics and policy makers around the importance of the service economy.

New alliance with top league American university

Danish public research joins one of the worlds leading alliances for research and development by entering into a partnership deal with the research network CITRIS (Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society).

Green energy exports growing

An increasing focus on efficiency helped propel exports of energy technology to an 8-percent growth rate in 2007, according to new statistics from the Climate and Energy Ministry. The growth rate was four times the overall export growth rate, and helped the value of energy exports to pass DKK 50 billion for the first time ever.

Biotechnology on the school curriculum

In partnership with the Technical University of Denmark, Novozymes is providing a million-kroner sponsorship that will open up the possibility for the country's upper- secondary school pupils to really get to grips with biotechnology.

European University Alliance between DTU, TUM and TU Eindhoven

The ‘European University Alliance in Science and Technology’ was established by TUM and DTU summer 2006 and now the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven is included as a partner university.

Girls' invention outwits pin-code thieves

Four business students have won an international competition for their invention of a nearly foolproof way to stop the practice of thieves being able to figure out pin-codes of people withdrawing money from ATMs.

Students make project to build sustainable cities in China

Students from the Department of Economics won the The Grundfos Challenge – a competition arranged by the Danish company Grundfos.

Opening for Denmark: Co-hosting European Research Facility

”Competition is afoot for being the host region for a planned European research facility known as ESS. Denmark has a clear interest in the facility being placed in the Øresund region, both in terms of research and business potential. So the Government will now make an active effort to support Sweden for that purpose”, says Helge Sander, Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation.

Major interest in establishing elite degree programmes

Helge Sander, Danish Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, has granted accreditation to 12 new degree programmes targeting elite students.

New fund to breathe life into cleantech

The commercial potential in cleantech is huge, but the necessary venture capital investments sidestep Denmark. Vækstfonden, the Danish government backed investment fund, now work to establish a fund, dedicated to cleantech investments.

Novo Nordisk donates its chemical library

Pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk has donated its medicinal library to a research university in China and to the WHO.

Festival of Research 2008

Festival of Research is an annual national event intended to arouse public interest in and enhance public understanding of the methods, processes, and outcome of research and science.

Climate researcher receives Vega medal

Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Center for Ice and Climate at University of Copenhagen, has been awarded the Swedish Vega medal – an honour she shares with polar explorers such as Scott, Nansen, Amundsen and Shackleton.

Good research dissemination

Professor Ove K. Pederson received the annual research dissemination award from Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.

Denmark continues to lead in globalisation

Denmark continues to move forward as a leader in globalisation, ranking at the top of several categories in two recently conducted analyses.

Record-breaking year at Aalborg University: Public research making money

Aalborg University is for the first time showing a surplus in its commercial activities. The 2007 surplus is DKK 3 million, and the positive result is gained after just a few years with a focused performance in the commercialisation of research results.

The Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation well on its way

Since its start in 2005 the Advanced Technology Foundation has invested Euro 87m in the development of 51 new advanced technologies. With the funding coming from the participating parties the 51 projects have a total budget of Euro 179m.

New International Center for Innovation

The new International Center for Innovation (ICI), recently established in the northern part of Denmark, will be a strong platform and framework for innovation of global business models. The center will be located at Aalborg University at the Center for Industrial Production (CIP) - rooted in the international research environment.

Sino-Danish bilateral cooperation

The Danish members of the Sino-Danish Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation invite Danish and Chinese scientists to submit project proposals to be accepted on the list of Sino-Danish bilateral cooperation.

New technologies are to halve the production time for wind turbine blades

Risø DTU is participating in a cooperation with LM Glasfiber, Aalborg University and Comfil Aps that is going to revolutionise the production of wind turbine blades. The project has received DKK 35 million from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation. Risø DTU contributes with knowledge about fibre composites and process technology.

Scientists petition for less ministry involvement

A group of researchers at the University of Copenhagen are gathering signatures aimed at a law change that would keep the science ministry out of their affairs.

The business community gains free access to ASB’s research

Aarhus School of Business (ASB) launches two new digital knowledge portals, offering access to more than 11,000 research findings from Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus.

Knowledge on climate gather in Copenhagen

In March 2009, when the University of Copenhagen hosts the international scientific conference on climate change, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, will be one of the keynote speakers.

NERI-scientist named "rising star" based on citations

Senior scientist, Paul Henning Krogh, National Environmental Research Institute (NERI) at University of Aarhus, has been highlighted as a "Rising Star" within the field of Environnment & Ecology in a citation analysis.

World-class research

Six areas of research will help to raise the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) onto the international arena. Over the next five years, the selected research areas will receive grants from some of the globalisation funds that have been allocated to CBS.

Patent tax gets political attention

A more gentle taxation on patents is about to be renegotiated in the Danish Parliament (Folketinget) and both the political government and the opposition are biased towards a modification of the patent taxation.

Coupons to ambitious companies

The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation now offers small and medium-size Danish businesses coupons with financial discounts for when they buy new research and knowledge from public universities.

Molecular medicine: 16 years of research in the immune system now pay off

Since 1992, a research team from the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Aarhus headed by Associate Professors Lars Sottrup-Jensen and Gregers Rom Andersen has determined the three-dimensional structure of proteins participating in the immune defense system. The researchers have now succeeded in describing the structure of a key protein from the human immune system, and these results pave the way for new strategies for preventing for instance the rejection of transplanted organs.

Public Research Commercialisation Survey – Denmark 2007

The 2007 Commercialisation Survey reveals a slowdown in public research commercialisation compared to the remarkable growth rates in resent years.

Two elite students win Venture Cup

Two MSc students from Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus have just won the distinguished Venture Cup for all universities in Denmark. The team has previously won several international competitions, and they are now looking forward to a six-month study stay and internship period in the USA.

Risø celebrates its 50th anniversary

Risø’s 50th anniversary is celebrated with the release of an anniversary book and a number of speeches which are broadcasted live from Risø’s website and to be watched later on demand.

Study aims to improve cancer treatment

A Danish-led research team has found a genetic marker that can affect the effectiveness of common cancer treatment.