university–enterprise cooperation

• NOVI Innovation provides:
1. A fruitful and attractive environment for entrepreneurs, their
ideas and projects;
2. Critical mass concerning competence;
3. Necessary capital development and scaling.
The science park is the daily workplace for 750 people and the
home of NOVI Innovation A/S, which handles NOVI’s function as
an innovation environment under the Danish Ministry of Science,
Technology and Development.
For a number of years, Aalborg University has supported initiatives
at the University which promote entrepreneurship amongst the
University’s students. The SEA office (Supporting Entrepreneurship
at Alborg University) is the hub where functions related to
entrepreneurship and innovation at and around Aalborg University
are promoted and managed. Intiatives, which SEA takes part in:
• Kickstart - entrepreneurial training and events;
• International Danish Entrepreneur Academy, IDEA - entrepreneurship,
innovation and creativity;
• First Step - meeting place for knowledge entrepreneurs in
Northern Jutland;
• Venture Cup - Denmark’s largest businessplan competition;
• Incubator - start up own business during studies or just after graduating;
• Counselling - for students and candidates who wishes to start
up their own business;
• Events for entrepreneurs.
Aalborg University’s Matchmakings purpose is to offer regional
key persons within education and trade and industry cooperation
between the university and trade and industry.
Aalborg University continuously works at expanding and improving
its cooperation with other universities and international research
institutions and already has a large network at different levels. The
university is e.g. a member of The European Consortium of Innovative
Universities (ECIU).
E) Aalborg University Liaison Council is established with the
purpose of conducting the contact to the surrounding community.
The duties of the council are to exchange information and points
of view between public and private parties and the University and
to advice the University’s management on issues concerning central
university political affairs.
Aalborg University feels a special responsibility for the regions in
which the university is located and moreover accepts a commitment
to the development in Denmark as a whole, in which context, too,
it is open to cooperation with other national and international
institutions of tertiary education, including universities in the third
world. Aalborg University participates in a number of different types
of university network collaboration at various organisational levels.
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