The document discusses Denmark's efforts to promote collaboration and partnerships between biotech companies through Biopeople, Denmark's Innovation Network for Health & Life Sciences. Biopeople helps small and medium biotech companies establish national and international collaborations through activities like partnering missions and networking events. Several Danish political leaders have stated that biotechnology is a success story and growth area for Denmark where the country is a global leader, and Biopeople plays a key role in providing small biotech companies access to international partnerships. The document also briefly mentions Denmark's national innovation and cluster strategies that aim to promote international partnerships between clusters.

1. Collaboration &
Matchmaking of the Top
Medtech and Healthcare
Regions
Copenhagen, 5 May 2013
/Per Spindler, Sophie Labrosse

2. Denmark's Innovation Network for Health & Life Sciences
DENMARK - LAND OF SOLUTIONS
Pharma - Biotech - Medtech - Food & Health

3. “Biotechnology is a success story!
Biotechnology is a promising growth area in
which Denmark is a global leader. Biopeople
helps the many small and medium sized
biotech companies to establish national and
international collaborations. Among
activities, Biopeople organises international
partnering missions and networking activities
relevant for the needs of SMEs and thus
provide the assess of Danish SMEs to the
international Biotech environment and
partnerships.”
Statement in the Danish media by several
Danish ministers and political heads of regions
(Politiken, 30 April 2013)

4. • Biopeople - Innovation Across Disciplines™
• Public-Private Partnerships with inclusion smaller
companies
• Internationalisation

5. • National Innovation Strategy – Denmark a nation of
solutions
• National Cluster Policy & Strategy
• More international clusters
• More professional cluster organisations
• Forum for the Danish cluster and network policy
• European Cluster Strategy

7. Welcome &
thank you!

8. References
• National Innovation Strategy ”Denmark – a nation of solutions”:
http://fivu.dk/en/newsroom/issues/innovation-strategy/innovation-strategy
• Strategy for Denmark’s Cluster Policy: http://fivu.dk/en/publications/2013/files-
2013/cluster-policy.pdf
• www.biopeople.dk
Per Spindler
Director, Biopeople
pesp@biopeople.ku.dk
Sophie Labrosse
Deputy Director, Biopeople
sophie@biopeople.ku.dk