Archive for the ‘Life Science’ Category
Denmark: a BioTech frontrunner
The Danish Consulate General hosted an Executive Roundtable on ‘Drug Development in Denmark’ at the BIO convention in Chicago to promote the Danish biotechnology cluster as an area of business excellence of Denmark. Danish representatives of Novo Nordisk, AbbVie and Eli Lilly presented case studies to the key stakeholders of the industry. As the European [...]
New Addition to our team in Silicon Valley: New Director of Health IT
Henrik Bennetsen has joined Innovation Centre Denmark, Silicon Valley, in March 2013. Henrik will be responsible for bringing talented Health IT start-up’s to ICDK, Silicon Valley, SCALEit accelerator program. Henrik has an entrepreneurial background, and comes with expertise in early stage development, and a unique skill in managing products and teams, customer/business development and event [...]
Agilent’s acquisition of Dako creates growth and jobs in Denmark
Dako is better positioned for organic growth following Agilent’s acquisition of the company in 2012. According to former president and CEO of Dako Lars Holmkvist, the acquisition secures and creates jobs in Denmark. In 2012 the American company Agilent Technologies acquired the Danish cancer diagnostics company Dako from the Sweden-based private equity group EQT for [...]
What happens when Danes and Americans meet and discuss senior care?
A great delegation of Danes representing start-ups, established organisations and public organisations visited Silicon Valley to gain insights on health care in the US. Health CareVan 2.0 aimed at exploring how health technology can help patients and stakeholders support and smoothen the health journey, and provide better quality-of-life, whether this be in the formalized hospital [...]
Denmark again comes out in a top position within biotechnology innovation
Denmark performs as the second best country for biotechnology innovation in this year’s Scientific American Worldview Scorecard survey of 50 countries. Denmark has a strong record sitting near the top of the index with a 3rd place in 2009, a 5th place in 2010 and 2nd place in both 2011 and 2012. The scorecard has [...]
Healthcare Innovation Management
Twenty one Danish executives from The Capital Region (public) and their partners from the private sector have already been though a training program at the Danish Technical University DTU before they arrive to Silicon Valley next Sunday evening. In Denmark they have been through the exercise of pinning down what exactly is their burning platform [...]
Invest in Denmark at the Health 2.0 Conference
The Health 2.0 Conference, which is known to be the leading showcase of cutting-edge innovation within health IT, is coming up. Invest in Denmark will be attending to learn more about future health IT solutions and to connect to potential partners that could benefit from the Danish health IT sector. The Health [...]
New interns at Innovation Center Denmark
We are happy to present four new interns at Innovation Center Denmark. Through a hard selection process, these four Danish Master’s students made it through the narrow gap – welcome guys! Magnus, Henriette, Philip and Lasse Lasse, Information and Communications Technology My name is Lasse Chor, and I will be part of the ICT team, [...]
