Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Denmark as a Start-Up Nation?
Greatly inspired by my recent visit to Israel, I’d like to jump into deep water and ask this question: Can Denmark become a Start-Up Nation? Why is this even controversial in the first place? Denmark is one of the three countries in the world spending the most (public) money per capita on start-ups. At the [...]
Travel and learn
‘To travel is to live’ said Hans Christian Andersen, the famous Danish fairy tale author. While that may be true ‘to travel is to learn’ may certainly also be. This was discovered by a group of Executive MBAs visiting Silicon Valley from Aarhus University. Innovation Centre Denmark had set up a two-day program of presentations [...]
Working across time zones
Today it is possible to work across great distances by use of modern communication technologies. This is a great advantage for us at Innovation Center Denmark as we are acting as a bridge between Denmark and Silicon Valley. Emails, calls and video conferences keep us in touch as we are not often able to be [...]
New ICDK interns fall 2012
Innovation Centre Denmark, Silicon Valley is happy to present our new group of interns. The three masters-level students will work with the rest of the team at ICDK for the next 6 months to achieve our team goals in 2012. The interns bring a great variety of skills and experience to the center. Research & [...]
An inspiring SCALEit event
On May 10th, I was privileged and honored to moderate a panel, co-hosted by Silicon Vikings and SCALEit, on “how to scale a technology company by moving to Silicon Valley”. Are you building a technology company? Do you want to scale it globally? Are you considering Silicon Valley? If so, this was the event for [...]
Why not SCALEit?
Are you an entrepreneur and in the process of building a company that has the potential of becoming a global company. If yes, then is Innovation Center Denmark now offering you a unique accelerator program. SCALEit gives your startup the opportunity of going on a 1-week inspiration tour in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is known [...]
Denmark in the top in the newly public Global Innovation Index
Measuring Innovation Capacity: The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation released a report last week which ranks Denmark in the top of more than 55 countries when it comes to innovation capacity. The report assesses these countries’ strength on 84 indicators across seven core innovation policy areas, and highlights many of the best innovation policies [...]
From downturn to recovery – 2011 Silicon Valley venture capital stats
SVForum quarterly venture overview: 2011 year review On Feb. 7 2012 SVForum gathered a group of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and the business community to report on 2011 venture statistics. Following the presentation of stats, SVForum invited partners from Norwest Venture Partners, Venrock and Hummer Winblad to a panel debate on the broader outlook of the [...]
New interns at ICDK
Innovation Center Denmark, Silicon Valley is happy to present the new group of interns. The three masters-level students will work together with the rest of the team at ICDK for the next 6 months to achieve our goals in 2012. The interns bring a great variety of skills and experiences to the center. From left: [...]
Grundfos Cuts the Ribbon to Innovative Water Technology Center
On September 20, Grundfos Chairman, Niels Due Jensen, unveiled Grundfos’ Water Technology Center in Fresno, California. The center will set the standard in water technology throughout the world as well as benefit the entire region, said Ashley Swearengin, Mayor of Fresno. The Water Technology Center will primarily focus on innovative product research in irrigation and [...]
Danish Entrepreneurship Award 2011
Sign up now for free and be part of the Danish Entrepreneurship Award 2011! People from all around the educational system will participate with one goal mind – create growth by being more creative, innovative and entrepreneurial. Everyone can participate in idea contests on different educational levels. Besides that there will also be interesting talks, [...]
US Military’s Green Push
MarketWatch’s Steve Gelsi just wrote an interesting article about how the US military has set very aggressive goals to reduce the use of fossil fuels. Last year, the US military spent as much as $13 billion on petroleum for its ships, planes, and combat vehicles alone! On top of that, energy dependence and supply reliability [...]
