Lots of cluster guidance available abroad

09/06/2011

Lots of cluster guidance available abroad

Are you dreaming of getting access to the globally leading research and innovation environments in e.g. Silicon Valley, Shanghai or Munich? Then use the Danish innovation centres and the other representatives abroad – they will be happy to help you find the right collaborators. 
  

During this autumn another Innovation Center Denmark opens in Hong Kong, and as a new initiative, as per 1st of September 2011, a technology and research attaché was stationed at the Danish Consulate General in Sâo Paulo, Brazil.

There are a lot of Danish representatives in the world – just waiting to serve. If you are searching for knowledge of a foreign market, or if you need assistance in creating contact to potential foreign collaborators, you should contact the Danish representatives around the world and the Danish innovation centres located in Silicon Valley, Shanghai and Munich. They will help you with advice, inspiration and networking, e.g. if you are considering internationalising your cluster.

Innovation Center Denmark represents both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Science, Technlogy and Innovation, and the purpose of the centres are partly to strengthen research and innovation in Denmark, and partly to brand Denmark as a leading knowledge society. You are thus also in a position to help them by drawing attention to your cluster, so that they will remember it when they are marketing Denmark and our growth areas.

 

Fact finding tours, innovation camps and support to international network activities

It is possible for the SMEs in your cluster, which are ready to become international, to get financial support for participation in e.g. innovation camps with companies in globally leading innovation environments.

It is possible for the researches in your cluster to get support for network activities with researchers from the USA, China, Israel, India, Japan, South Corea and Brazil.

You will also find inspiration for your cluster in the activities that other clusters, companies and researchers have previously arranged. An example is the so-called ’fact finding tours’, where cluster people meet leading experts from the business and research environments and various projects in the respective countries. You can find information on former activities on the websites of the Danish innovation centres, and you can contact the centres for a non-committal conversation.