Business article - April 6, 2020
Engineers to entrepreneurs
Ideas from a California university inspire research and training in commercialization. It’s been a year since the launch of the Centre for Technology Entrepreneurship at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The university creates an average of 115 new companies a year, based on a 2018 analysis, and DTU Entrepreneurship plans to build on that […]
Uncategorized - March 25, 2020
Aarhus University and the pharma industry collaborate on open innovation
The basic idea behind the Open Discovery Innovation Network (ODIN), a pilot project that will be a free space for the next three years, is to improve Denmark’s ability to convert research results into new products and solutions. Without the restrictive framework of patents, ODIN will boost and use the collective thinking and creativity of […]
Financing - March 3, 2020
Scandion Oncology receives DKK 5 million
Scandion Oncology A/S has obtained DKK 5 million from Innovation Fund Denmark for the clinical development of SCO-101 in metastatic pancreatic cancer. The grant of DKK 5 million from Innovation Fund Denmark is earmarked for the clinical phase II development of SCO-101 in metastatic pancreatic cancer. “We are very pleased to receive this soft money […]
Financing - January 18, 2020
“We are looking for great science and great people”
Christian Elling is Managing Partner at Lundbeckfonden Emerge, the early stage investment unit of Lundbeckfonden that has a range of investments in early stage Danish biotech companies. What kind of companies are you and your colleagues focusing your investments on? And what stages? “We seek to identify and initiate development of scientific opportunities that could […]
In a new job - January 16, 2020
She is the new CEO of Novozymes
On 1 February 2020, Ester Baiget will take up the position as President & CEO of Novozymes. Baiget joins from a position as Business President for Dow’s Industrial Solutions and is a member of the executive leadership team. She is an experienced international leader with a strong track-record, states the company. She will succeed Peder […]
Uncategorized - November 4, 2019
New report: The state of Medicon Valley’s life science industry
The Medicon Valley region’s life science industry is still expanding and the life science sector has grown more important for both the Danish and the Swedish national economies. These are some of the conclusion in the 2019 edition of the “State of Medicon Valley analysis”, published Monday November 4th 2019 and presented at the Medicon […]
