University of Southern Denmark in prestigious collaboration with Harvard Business School

01/10/2012

University of Southern Denmark in prestigious collaboration with Harvard Business School

The University of Southern Denmark is now approved as a partner in an exclusive collaboration with Harvard Business School, The Microeconomics of Competitiveness Affiliate Network. This means that the University of Southern Denmark is now able to offer teaching to the university’s candidates in the latest methods within e.g. business development and competitiveness.

by Allan Emiliussen

: Torben Damgaard, professor og leder af Institut for Entreprenørskab og Relationsledelse. Foto: Syddansk Universitet

As the first Danish university, the University of Southern Denmark is participating in the prestigious study programme, The Microeconomics of Competitiveness Affiliate Network (MOC), which is led by Professor Michael Porter at Harvard University – the man, who created the cluster concept.

Already in December 2011, Associate Professor and Head of Department of Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management, Torben Damgaard, and PhD student at the same department, Mads Bruun Ingstrup, participated in an introduction workshop at the world famous university in Boston.

The workshop was about how to strengthen the competitiveness and financial development by means of a completely new micro economical bottom-up method; and innovative methods within micro economics and cluster collaboration is exactly what Michael Porter is known for.

The focus of the MOC programme is on the way in which the sources of national and regional productivity is anchored in the strategies of the local companies, and through a close collaboration with the University of Southern Denmark, REG X will benefit from the know how obtained from the programme.

: Mads Bruun Ingstrup, ph.d.-studerende ved Institut for Entreprenørskab og Relationsledelse. Foto: REG X

PhD student Mads Bruun Ingstrup on his participation in MOC:

”It is a huge possibility as a cluster researcher to be participating in the Harvard study programme by Professor Michael Porter. I’m looking forward to exciting presentations, cluster cases and discussions to contribute to the elaboration on the underlying mechanisms required to foster clusters. I’m also excited to be meeting cluster researchers from other countries and learning from their experiences”.

According to Mads Bruun Ingstrup, the study programme at Harvard University will strengthen the work of both REG X and the University of Southern Denmark with boosting competitiveness and the business climate in general by cluster collaboration.