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INFRASTRUCTURE: Innovation District Copenhagen-partner Novo Nordisk Foundation has announced plans to establish a new 5,300 m² quantum chip fabrication facility in Copenhagen together with district-located... Read More

With operations based in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria, Denmark’s first innovation centre in Africa will create new opportunities for Danish research and innovation while... Read More

Women live on average longer than men yet spend approximately 25% more of their lives in poor health. International analyses estimate that a significant boost... Read More

For the first time, Innovation District Copenhagen (IDC) will participate in TechBBQ – one of the Nordic region’s largest technology and startup events. IDC’s presence... Read More

For the tenth year in a row, Denmark holds its place as one of Europe’s three so-called innovation leaders. The Scandinavian country takes second place... Read More

Copenhagen, the home of Innovation District Copenhagen, remains the world’s most liveable city in 2026. This, according to an annual analysis made by media house... Read More

Chairperson of the Innovation District Copenhagen board and Rector of the University of Copenhagen, David Dreyer Lassen, has been elected as the new Chair of... Read More

Two strong players in the Danish innovation ecosystem are now joining forces to attract technology investors to Copenhagen. TechBBQ, one of Scandinavia’s largest technology fairs,... Read More

Denmark has a strong digital infrastructure, but the implementation and commercialization of artificial intelligence in Danish companies is lagging behind. A new initiative, AI Lab,... Read More

Genetically Modified Organisms underpin the biotechnology that could give us greener chemistry, cleaner fuels, more powerful immunological tools and better medicine. Sadly, many biotech ideas... Read More

Jobs as lecturers, readers, and professors used to go only to excellent researchers and teachers at Innovation District Copenhagen- partner University of Copenhagen. This changed... Read More

Standard contracts for research-based companies are now being implemented across all Danish universities. This means that building, and scaling, a business based on university research... Read More

Today, 4th March 2026, the Innovation District Copenhagen association is delighted to announce the appointment of Annemarie Munk Riis as new CEO. Munk Riis’ background... Read More

Novel biobased solutions could be the next big business adventure for Denmark and for Europe. In agriculture, in food, in biochemicals and much more. In... Read More

The Copenhagen based venture capital company “Footprint Firm” recently launched a new impact fund focused on deep-tech solutions to sustainability issues. Their “Footprint Fund I”... Read More

A broad majority in the Danish Parliament has agreed on sweeping reforms designed to strengthen knowledge and technology transfer from universities to industry, in a... Read More

Five point five billion Danish Kroner or 736 million Euro. That was the size of a recent grant to INNOVATION DISTRICT COPENHAGEN -partner BioInnovation Institute... Read More

Innovation District Copenhagen aims to become an international powerhouse for innovation, bringing together researchers, clinicians, entrepreneurs, and businesses to develop more new solutions and companies... Read More

Attracting international stakeholders to Copenhagen is a central mission for the innovation district. Getting their attention across borders can be challenging. That is why the... Read More

November’s first week was busy in Danish tech. The months’ third and fourth days saw thinkers, doers and legislators in European AI assemble in the... Read More

A Danish governmental “Taskforce for Strengthened Knowledge and Technology Transfer” presented their recommendations on how to support research institutions as engines for innovation and knowledge-based... Read More

The government and a broad majority in the Folketing have reached agreements that strengthen research in security, health, and climate, while creating better conditions for... Read More

An un-beatable launchpad for startups could be the result of this merger. The two Innovation District Copenhagen-located incubator- and accelerator programmes BioInnovation Institute (BII) and... Read More

Today, Monday 9th September 2025, the Danish Government, the City of Copenhagen, the University of Copenhagen, and a broad consortium of partners present a comprehensive... Read More

The University of Copenhagen is now launching their new “Centre for Protein Design” (CPD) Thanks to a generous DKK 700 million grant from the Novo... Read More

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... Read More

Artificial Intelligence start-ups saw the largest rise in investments of any tech field in 2024. Now the Global Tech Ecosystem Index 2025 by investor-analysts Dealroom.co... Read More

Copenhagen is now the world’s most liveable city according to Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2025 global liveability index. With this result, the Danish capital moves up... Read More

45 percent of the world’s population now lives in cities. With so many urbanites, the cities better be good. Fortunately for Innovation District Copenhagen, the... Read More

On 1 July, Professor Eva Hoffmann from UCPH Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine joins senior management at Innovation District Copenhagen-partner University of Copenhagen  as... Read More

Denmark has some of the best health data in the world. Since the 1970’ies the Danish healthcare system has collected data covering the whole population... Read More

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... Read More