Date: 28th September 2010 - Understanding Nordic Innovation Excellence

Knowledge Exchange Wales is delighted to return after our summer break with details of the first of our autumn series of seminars.

Our next event is on Tuesday 28th September and is entitled ‘Understanding Nordic Innovation Excellence’. As usual this is a breakfast seminar in the Village Hotel, Swansea starting at 08:30 until 10:30. This event is focused on learning about successful innovation techniques and real business examples from the leading Nordic countries.

Within the European context, Scandinavia is considered the benchmark as the leading region in respect to R&D and innovation. The European Innovation Scoreboard developed by the European Commission, which provides a comparative assessment of the innovation performance of the EU27 member states, rates Denmark, Finland, Germany and Sweden as the innovation leaders, all with innovation performance well above the European average and all other countries. Attend our event to learn some of the secrets to this regions success!

Speakers for the event will include:



Mr Henrik Brorsen – Director - Connect Denmark
We are delighted to welcome one of our partner Global Connect Networks to Wales, to showcase the successful innovation ecosystem of Denmark and their fellow Scandinavian countries. CONNECT Denmark offers high-growth entrepreneurs and start-ups advice and access to a unique nationwide network of sponsors and members. This network represents the best competencies within the Danish business community, universities and organisations.



Filippa Kull - Director of Business Development -Stockholm Science City
We are delighted to have a representative from the Stockholm Science City Foundation to talk to talk to us about how universities, business and the community can work together to drive regional growth and innovation. The mission of Stockholm Science City Foundation is to attract academia and business within the Life Sciences sector to Stockholm Life, a dedicated Life Science area in Stockholm.

We also aim to secure a speaker from a successful Scandinavian business to tell their story about success through innovation; this will be confirmed nearer to the event.


We hope you will be able to join us for what promises to be a very interesting insight in to some of the most innovative and successful countries in Europe. We hope to give you the opportunity to develop links for your businesses to these countries through networking with these organisations.

Register now, or find out more by contacting us on 01792 606060 or emailing researchandinnovation@swansea.ac.uk.