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Five Nordic partners agree to strengthen the role of universities in shaping the future of artificial intelligence.

/03 Mar 2025

Nordic partnership to boost AI in innovation district

Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Norway al have strong academic research organization within artificial intelligence. National academic AI centers in the five Nordic countries have...

Danish Governments' 2024 strategies for entrepreneurship and life science promisses support to improve Innovation District Copenhagen

/06 Feb 2025

Innovation district is central to government strategies for life science and entrepreneurship

The word “innovation” featured 67 times when the Danish Government launched its life science strategy on 31st October 2024. When the governmental strategy on entrepreneurship...

Innovation District Copenhagen is a two sqare kilometre area in the heart of the Danish capital.

/20 Jan 2025

All say aye to city plan promising innovation district development

The City of Copenhagen now has a plan outlining the Danish capitals’ development until 2036. The plan was adopted unanimously by Copenhagen’s governing body, the...

/08 Jan 2025

Innovative scalable nuclear power developing in Copenhagen

“Geopolitics” is not a word you routinely hear when interviewing deep-tech start-ups. Then again, Seaborg is not a routine start-up. Even by Innovation District Copenhagen-standards....

Qfactory co-founders Albert Schlisser and Eric Langman

/18 Dec 2024

New express-deal to pave way for more quantum-start-ups from University of Copenhagen

Quantum research is maturing to the point where inventions are now leaving university labs to enter the world of business. To ease the way for...

Immunordic Team discussing a new batch of tailored nanobodies

/27 Nov 2024

Start-up built deep-tech product in easy access labs

Biotechnology start-ups always need labs, but they can hardly ever afford them. In Copenhagen, one solution to this challenge is to get bench-space at the...

Niels Bohr Building inaugurated 29th October 2024. MikalSchlosser

/31 Oct 2024

New university building is crucial to innovation district ambitions

The Niels Bohr Building at Innovation District Copenhagen-partner University of Copenhagen is 52,000 square metres of state-of-the-art labs, offices and auditoria. It will house the...

TBBQ Panel debate 2024: Left to right: Mads Lacoppidan, Colleen Acosta, Mikkel Skovborg, Jes Andersen

/30 Oct 2024

Denmark is premium life science destination say expert panel

In Denmark, scientific excellence, business building know-how and availability of funding from seed to stock market is now at a point where international life science...

AI supercomputer Gefion was launched in attendance of L&R Jensen Huang, Nadia Carlsten, HRH King Frederik X

/29 Oct 2024

New supercomputer to boost Danish AI-research

The recently launched AI-supercomputer Gefion is Denmark’s first GPU-accelerated supercomputer. The aim of the powerful computing facility is to give a boost to the country’s...

In a project to avoid full Anaesthesia for children, researchers Melanie Ganz and Thurid Waagstein Madsen took a high tech approach, but may end up with a low tech solution. Photo: Jes Andersen, Innovation District Copenhagen.

/02 Oct 2024

Apps, cartoons and training reduces need to anesthetise kids

Children about to undergo medical imaging procedures are usually put to sleep with anaesthetics, so they won’t move in the scanner. This is not ideal....

TriptoBio is a deep-tech start-up with a vitally important ability to attract highly trained staff. From left to right: Scientist Andrea Siegl, Scientist Quinn Heck, CSO & Founder Johan Andersen-Ranberg and COO Kenneth Kongstad.

/17 Sep 2024

Non-toxic rat-control gives purpose to start-up-staff

Getting rid of rats without harming the environment is a meaningful first target for Danish biotech start-up TriptoBIO. The company is a spin-out from Innovation...

Shanghai Rankings 2024 show University of Copenhagen holding place despite fierce global competition

/04 Sep 2024

Innovation District partner still among greatest

Quick Quiz. What is: Number one in Scandinavia? Number two in the EU? Number seven in Europe? Number 32 in the world? The university ranking...

/02 Sep 2024

Innovation District professor sells AI start-up based on research excellence

In 2017 business analysts were saying that Artificial Intelligence would revolutionise… Everything. They expected the most immediate use case to be customer service, and this...

PUFIN-ID founder Thomas Just Sørensen and CEO Line Klit Olsen verifying an O-KEY unfakeable identification tag.

/28 Aug 2024

University spinout goes global with security solution allowing circularity

Fake products are poison. Sometimes literally as in counterfeit medicines. Sometimes figuratively when they ruin the reputation of quality companies. Even the green transition is...

Ceremedy is a sleep-disorder biotech company located in Innovation District Copenhagen

/08 Aug 2024

Growing focus on university innovation helps sleep-disorder start-up

Ceremedy is a company full of mystery. It is a spin-out from Innovation District Copenhagen-partner University of Copenhagen. In May 2023 it secured an investment...

Copenhagen is the Worlds (second) Most Liveable city for the third year in a row. Photo: Mellanie Gandø for Wonderful Copenhagen

/11 Jul 2024

Copenhagen is (almost) the worlds’ best city to live in… Again

For the third year running, Danish capital Copenhagen takes second place on the Global Liveability Index. As in previous years the index is published in...

Professor William D. Oliver, MIT, and Associate Professor Morten Kjaergaard, UCPH , ind the quantum lab in Copenhagen. Innovation District Copenhagen-partner University of Copenhagen enters collaboration agreement with MIT.

/04 Jul 2024

Innovation District Copenhagen-partner launches quantum partnership with global top university MIT

Quantum computers could change the world but making advanced versions of them requires scientific breakthroughs. Now, American university Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has signed...

/20 Jun 2024

Drinking water made safer for the poor by start-up in Innovation District Copenhagen

This morning, 200,000 Africans are beginning their day with a safe drink of water. They cleaned their water in a high-tech low-cost plastic container developed...

Copenhagen Science City becomes Innovation District Copenhagen

/14 Jun 2024

Danish entrepreneurship strategy aims for world class

A new entrepreneurship strategy from the Danish Government aims to make Denmark a world class country for start-ups and their founders. Less tax, less red...

Innovation District Copenhagen launched by Morten Bødskov Christina Egelund Sophie Hæstorp

/10 Jun 2024

Copenhagen Science City becomes Innovation District Copenhagen

INNOVATION DISTRICT COPENHAGEN is the name of a new Danish powerhouse for inventing and developing solutions to important societal challenges. The new innovation district will...

/30 May 2024

From Science City to the stars. Cancer start-up grows out of innovation district

The highly promising biotech start-up Adcendo is one of the first companies to move out of Copenhagen Science City and into ‘Science City-partner Symbions’ new...

Christian Grøndahl, CEO SNIPR BIOME with his team. Photo: SNIPR BIOME

/21 May 2024

Innovation District Copenhagen gives recruitment edge to biotech start-up

When the Danish CRISPR technology company SNIPR Biome goes looking for scientific talent, they are competing with companies in the hottest life science cities on...

2024 strategy at Copenhagen Science City-partner University College Copenhagen KP adds focus on societal impact and collaboration

/29 Apr 2024

Co-operation with society central to new strategy at Science City-partner

University College Copenhagen (KP) is a Copenhagen Science City-partner which offers educational programmes in health and care-subjects such as nursing and midwifery. KP recently launched...

Industry challenge at University College Copenhagen (KP). Bachelor students co-create with the biomarker company EgooHealth.

/23 Apr 2024

Company challenges teach health- and care students to be innovators

Technology will be crucial to meeting the needs of the future health- and care sector. In order to prepare students for this reality, Copenhagen Science...

Since 2016, the LINX Association has helped inventors get in touch with leading researchers in materials science.

/16 Apr 2024

Small Companies to Get Easier Access to Materials Research

Using the right materials may be crucial in developing new physical products. Unfortunately, material scientists are often out of reach for small and medium sized...

Danish people are second-most happy in world: AI-Photo by Dreamstudio. Prompted by Jes Andersen

/09 Apr 2024

Danes remain among happiest people

The 2024 United Nations World Happiness Report is out. Denmark is the second happiest country in the world. Narrowly beaten out of first place by...

Maybell Quantum is an innovation eco-system actor in Copenhagen Science City providing cooling as a service for quantum innovators. Photo: Maybell Quantum.

/04 Apr 2024

Cool start-up will break down barriers for quantum tech innovators

It takes a lot of money to start inventing quantum technology. Even the most basic equipment will set you back some one to two million...

Tobias Todsen and Joanna Bergström from Copenhagen Science City-partners Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen collaborated on the VR-project 360MedQuest. VR-model, Lisette Laursen.

/20 Mar 2024

Virtual reality matches real reality for med-student examination

INNOVATION DISTRICT COLLABORATION: Medical students can learn almost everything from books. Just not to recall their training in the chaos of a clinical situation. University...

Copenhagen Science City-located start-up Sparrow Quantum, CEO Kurt Stokbro in lab: Photo Sparrow Quantum

/13 Mar 2024

Walking distance to partners is crucial for quantum start-up in Innovation District Copenhagen

Lunchtime is important to the quantum hardware start-up Sparrow Quantum. The company headquarters are just across the street from scientific collaborators at University of Copenhagen’s...

Andreas Mogensen with the Virtual Reality headset used to provide Syncsenses' nature experiences during execersise on the International Space Station. Photo: ESA / NASA ISS-Video

/13 Mar 2024

Student start-up became supplier for Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen

Astronauts need hard exercise to avoid losing bone and muscle during spaceflights. On his 2023/24 Hugin mission to the International Space Station ISS, Danish astronaut...

Copenhagen Science City-partner Rigshospitalet now considers innovation crucial to the running of the hospital

/08 Mar 2024

Innovation becomes core business for University Hospital Rigshospitalet

Treating sick people is- and always will be- the most important task for a hospital. Innovation, however, plays an increasing role in this task for...

Morten Albrechtsen and Andreas Kjær CEO & Founder of the Copenhagen Science City-located start-up Fluoguide

/04 Mar 2024

Location is secret ingredient for start-up developing cancer detector

Cancer cells are hard to spot. Surgeons rely on sight, touch, and tissue analysis when they remove cancer tissue, and they don’t always get it...

Lighthouse Launch-funding for student start-ups include access to University of Copenhagen innovation centre KU-Lighthouse

/28 Feb 2024

The University of Copenhagen secures investments in students’ start-ups

Students at universities want to start companies that make a difference in society. Now the Copenhagen Science City-partner, University of Copenhagen is launching the “Lighthouse...

Copenhagen Science City is home to one of the most vibrant quantum research and innovation communities in the world.

/23 Feb 2024

International centre for medical quantum sensing to locate in Copenhagen Science City

Quantum sensing could improve diagnosis and prevention of many diseases. Now, The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded a grant of DKK 150 million to establish...

/21 Feb 2024

Copenhagen Start-up wants to detox your clothes, colour by colour

That pretty, pink shirt of yours is harmful to the planet. So is the blue, green and purple ones in your closet. Now the Copenhagen...

Denmark announced worlds' least corrupt 2024

/16 Feb 2024

Denmark world’s least corrupt for third year running

Corrupt acts like bribery and abuse of power make it harder to start a business. The company may have to pay bribes for permits and...

Copenhagen Science City is possibly the best place in Europe to launch or scale your innovation based company.

/17 Jan 2024

Spinout from Copenhagen Science City-partner raises state investment

SOLID Therapeutics is an early-stage start-up developing novel treatment for cancer. In January 2024 the Danish states’ Export and Investment Fund EIFO invested 670,000 Euro...

House of Practice & Innovation is a test- and education facility for health and care-products and procedures run by Københavns Professionshøjskole in Copenhagen Science City.

/01 Jan 2024

New leader for Science City-partner

University College Copenhagen – Københavns Professionshøjskole – welcomed a new Rector on January 1st, 2024. Rector Anne Vang Rasmussen comes from a position as a...

/21 Dec 2023

14 reasons to launch your tech- start-up in Copenhagen Science City in 2024

In a globalised world, your talent for tech and your tech start-up is welcomed almost everywhere in the world. So why should you choose Copenhagen...

Novo Nordisk Foundation will establish the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Vaccines and Immunity (NCVI) at the University of Copenhagen. Novo Nordisk Foundation will establish the company Novo Nordisk Foundation Vaccine Accelerator (NVAC) Together the two initiatives are called Novo Nordisk Foundation Initiative for Vaccines and Immunity (NIVI)

/19 Dec 2023

Vaccine initiative comes to Copenhagen Science City

In order to bring new, improved vaccines to market, The Novo Nordisk Foundation is now committing up to DKK 1.8 billion (248 mio EUR) to...

The methane removal invention is currently being developed at University of Copenhagen labs in collaboration with the start-up Ambient Carbon. Left to right: CEO Matthew Johnson, R&D scientific researcher Morten Krogsbøll, COO & Chair, David Miller. Photo, Jes Andersen.

/19 Dec 2023

Climate entrepreneur in Copenhagen Science City chases capital after research breakthrough

Anyone with an understanding of climate change knows that methane gas is a major climate offender. Anyone with an understanding of gas chemistry knows that...

Operation Room Black Box is an AI-powered video monitoring tool for the health sector. Students at University of Copenhagen have analysed implementation at university hospital Rigshospitalet. Visualisation: AI Dream Studio prompted by Jes Andersen.

/07 Dec 2023

Communication transforms surveillance into quality control

INNOVATION DISTRICT COLLABORATION: Surgery could be safer if surgical theatres were monitored as systematically as other high-risk industries. Hospital staff do want to improve for...

Former metalworks at Raadmandsgade 55 to be transformed into youth residencies. Visualisation by Holscher Nordberg Architects.

/04 Dec 2023

Industrial site to be transformed into youth residences

A former metal goods factory in the Copenhagen Science City-street Rådmandsgade is now on track to be transformed into 159 apartments for students and other...

CPHLabs Food is a new easy access shared lab space for early stage start-ups in the alimentary sector. Left, Aleksandra Marczak from Algenious Foods. Right, Ava Shayan from Plheese. Photo: Jes Andersen, Copenhagen Science City.

/30 Nov 2023

Science City-partners launch labs to boost food start-ups

New ingredients, processes, and foodstuffs is a rich field for start-ups, but to develop anything for the food industry, you need more than mom’s kitchen....

Ferdinand Kuemmeth Rikke Lütge Jan Oeschle Karen Laigaard Niels Bohr Institute QDevil Technology Transfer Copenhagen

/22 Nov 2023

Technology Transfer prize goes to Copenhagen Science City partner and spinout

INNOVATION: The international “Technology Transfer Prize” is issued by the German Physical Society, which is one of the oldest and largest in the world. This...

DENMARK IS BEST IN WORLD FOR WOMEN Photo: Jacob Lisbygd for Wonderful Copenhagen

/06 Nov 2023

Denmark ranked as worlds’ best country for women

Women are safer, more equal and have better access to justice in Denmark than in any other country in the world. This according to the...

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