Column - March 12, 2023
Column: Shift Happens!
Medicon Valley, the coalition of the willing and a renaissance for Nordic collaboration? When tectonic plates shift, landscapes changes and mountain and valleys are created. Politically the tectonic plates in the Nordics are shifting dramatically with Finland and Sweden opting for NATO-membership as a direct consequence of the war in Ukraine and the fear of […]
Column - November 7, 2022
Medicon Valley – From good to great and beyond
This year the Swedish-Danish life science cluster organisation, Medicon Valley Alliance, is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary. Our organization, which has Lund University and University of Copenhagen as its founding fathers, and the bi-national region we embrace, has come a long way since the humble beginnings in the late 1990s when the Øresund Bridge was still […]
Column - September 27, 2022
Swedish and Danish life science is built on strong foundations
Denmark and Sweden are the two leading life science nations of the Nordics, and both countries rank in the top-10 of most innovative countries in the world1. Coming together in the Medicon Valley region around Øresund they have created the largest, most vibrant, and most attractive life science cluster in the European Union. Although this […]
Column - June 7, 2022
And the future looks even brighter!
Life science is booming in the Nordics, and although Denmark and Sweden are by far the leading life science nations of the region, the biotech sector in both Finland and Norway are accelerating and contributing to the idea of the Nordics as a life science powerhouse. All the Nordic countries are among the top-20 over-all […]
