Archive for the ‘Research’ Category
With biosamples as currency and research potential as return
Over the years the Danish society has invested huge sums in building up a range of national registers containing information about all residents in Denmark. In the same way the Danish health system has routinely collected biological material from a large number of individuals. This combination has resulted in Denmark developing one of the biggest [...]
The future of diagnostics and health care technologies
Imaging that you are sitting in your office and are suddenly interrupted by a beeping noise. You look around to find out where the alarming sound originates only to discover it is your cell-phone indicating that your level of blood sugar is starting to go below the level needed for optimal concentration. Too Sci-fi?! Nonetheless [...]
Danish-American Partnership Promotes Melanoma Pain Research
With the help from Innovation Center Denmark, Silicon Valley a new colaboration between Danish and Californian Universities and Hospitals has been established. The area concerns melanoma research and the pain resulting from the treatment of melanoma. “We welcome the collaboration and look forward to receive gifted students and researchers from Denmark,” says Karin Lottrup Petersen, [...]
New exchange program between UC Berkeley and The Technical University of Denmark
As a result of the 3rd Annual Workshop on Photonics an exchange program between Berkeley and DTU has been established. This will in the future secure knowledge transfer across the Atlantic. In this way Berkeley and DTU Fotonik will keep their position as leading researchers in the area of photonics. Hopefully the details of the [...]
3rd Annual Workshop on Photonics has successfully been conducted
3rd Annual Workshop on Photonics The 30th and 31th of January the 3rd Annual Workshop on Photonics was hosted. With over 100 attendees the workshop was once again a success with the introduction of exciting new technologies on the areas of communication and biophotonics. Inspiring speakers With speakers from all over the world the stage [...]
What will the future internet look like and is it possible to build micro systems on the surface of an eye?
Monday January 30th, 2012 the 3rd Annual Workshop on Photonic Technologies and Applications will launch at UC Berkeley, CITRIS. Danish and US experts within research and industry will join forces in an attempt to advance the development of Photonic Technologies for Communications and Biophotonics. Together with Stanford University, UC Berkeley, The Technical University of Denmark and Aalborg University we have put together [...]
Universities Generate More Startups
One fact is for sure, the world economy looks rather complicated these days. Another true fact is that more research and entrepreneurship create jobs and growth. The good news is universities are ramping up their efforts to commercialize their research. Universities filed more patents, created more startups, and licensed more technologies in fiscal year 2010 [...]
Reality Hits a Virtual Wall
Our latest workshop at Stanford University, Explosions of Virtuality, evolved around our daily interactions with each other in a social and virtual world. How can and should we reflect on the growing pattern of communication in the virtual evolution we are going through? This workshop was another product of the collaboration between the H-STAR Institute [...]
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 [...]
Want to Bridge Danish and the American Research and Innovation Environments?
Science and Technology Attaché – Position as good networker with research and innovation policy insights is open at Innovation Center Denmark in Silicon Valley, USA. Would you like to work in one of the world’s most knowledge intensive and innovative areas and bridge Danish and U.S. research and innovation environments? The position open from January 1 2012. Application deadline October 17 2011. Read more about the position here
October workshop at Stanford University – Explosions of Virtuality
Our engagement with the world is a constant interplay of the actual and the virtual. New spaces, acts, performances, organizations and movements are becoming possible. Creating innovation is being able to actualize these potential and infinitive worlds here and now in the actual world. Do explosions of virtuality provide us with hope of new spaces [...]
Visiting scholarships in Silicon Valley
Are you a researcher or a PhD student? Now you have the amazing opportunity to apply for a visiting scholarship at Stanford University or UC Berkeley – some of the leading universities in the world. Deadline for applications is October 5th 2011. The scholarships are part of a partnership between the Ministry of Science, [...]
