Copenhagen Cleantech Cluster Nørregade 7B DK-1165 Copenhagen K Tel: +45 33 22 02 22 www.copcap.com
Denmark’s largest cluster initiative up and running Denmark’s largest cluster initiative has been launched by a number of the country’s leading companies, organisations and public research institutions within cleantech to create a worldclass cleantech cluster. The cluster is granted by the EU, the Growth Forum for the Zealand Region and the Growth Forum for the Capital Region of Denmark, as well as by the stakeholders themselves. The objective of Copenhagen Cleantech Cluster – CCC – is to become the unifying and co-ordinating point of entry to the Danish cleantech sector, whether you are a businessman or researcher, CEO or managing director, entrepreneur or interested in cleantech. In CCC you can seek advice and guidance about the possibilities of entrepreneurship, business partners, research, technologies, patents, events, conferences and networks. In short, CCC gathers and manages all the information which is somehow related to cleantech in Denmark. As part of the project, CCC is obligated to fulfil a number of objectives. After the five years have passed, the cluster must, amongst other things, have created 1,000 new jobs, attracted 25 foreign companies to Denmark, established 8-10 public-private partnerships and formed six new industry-specific networks within cleantech.
One point of entry to Danish cleantech Furthermore, CCC is divided into five main activities. The first activity is the actual facilitation of CCC. It consists of a secretariat which operates the cluster and co-ordinates projects and activities amongst the cluster’s actors. Moreover, a number of initiatives are undertaken such as a Knowledge and Information Centre – a one stop-shop – which will ensure targeted information, advice and access to activities and relevant material to businesses, research institutions and organisations. Public and private partnerships will also be highlighted, which by mapping and visualisation of public actors’ needs, will develop new solutions and technologies. At the website energymap.dk country-specific campaign modules, development of an investor forum and Danish research and education competencies are made visible.
exhibition of Danish cleantech technologies in full-scale. The third activity, matchmaking, stimulates industry-specific networks that will strengthen companies' international competitiveness through increased knowledge sharing, formation of new consortiums, new collaborations on testing and demonstration, new development projects between the network’s actors and consequently innovation. The fourth activity is innovation and entrepreneurship. Here, entrepreneurs can get targeted information on how to find and attract the right customers, develop their product, shorten time to market and reduce development costs. In addition, help is provided to build basic facilities that cover the companies’ joint needs and benefit cleantech companies in all of Denmark, just as the technological knowledge transfer from universities to companies is to be strengthened – among other things by the establishment of a gap funding pool and completion of cleantech PhD studies.
Transparency: a strengthening factor Finally, CCC is characterised by an international outlook, and as such CCC collaborates with 10 to 15 of the world's leading cleantech clusters. This way we ensure that CCC and the Danish actors in the cluster are linked to foreign knowledge, networking and business opportunities for the benefit of all actors within the clusters. The international cluster co-operation will be a platform for knowledge sharing, identification of relationships and potential market opportunities across the clusters’ companies. Only by knowledge sharing and learning from others can all the actors within the cleantech sector improve themselves, and ‘inclusion’ is an important guideline for CCC’s work. The entire cluster way of thinking is based on collaboration between actors and the new ideas and products that are created, just as assistance to small entrepreneurs and financing of the valuable inventions all benefit the entire value chain within the cluster – whether you are public or private, large or small, new or experienced.
Increased collaboration across the industry, test and demonstration is the second activity, and here companies, in close co-operation with the research community, configure and test technologies, while the city Frederikssund in northern Zealand, which is experienced in new forms of finance, will serve as a world
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