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Innovation Centre Denmark in Shanghai has helped master’s students engage with real-world challenges. Students in the Master's program in Innovation Management at the Sino-Danish Center near Beijing have, for the second time, had the opportunity to bridge the gap between academia and reality through the Real World Innovation Challenge.

ICDK Silicon Valley has been actively engaged in the climate agenda for several years and, in the fall of 2023, hosted its first Climate Tech Accelerator. The accelerator program was a tremendous success, fostering connections between the Californian ecosystem and several participating Danish startups.

In 2023, ICDK Silicon Valley held its first Climate Tech Accelerator, where Danish climate tech startups were presented with a week-long program filled with tailored sparring from ICDK. Here, they also had the opportunity to establish connections with investors and potential business partners in California, which is the leading climate state in the USA.

Meet Hao Yin, the founder and CEO of TEGnology. His mission? To revolutionize the power supply for industrial sensors. 

Global research collaborations are essential for innovation that improves human health. That is why ICDK Shanghai and Danish bioscience company Chr. Hansen have worked together to support Sino-Danish research within the food and ingredient industry.

China’s education market has undergone some drastic changes in recent years. Danish company, KUBO Robotics, has partnered up with ICDK Shanghai to find an innovative approach to the dynamic Chinese market.

The Danish company Miiskin developed a skin health platform for healthcare and clinical research that includes an app for patients and a web portal for clinicians. The solution empowers doctors and researchers to digitally collect patient-reported data and high-resolution photos of patients' skin conditions to provide treatment and conduct clinical studies with patients in remote locations.

MedTrace is a Danish company dedicated to becoming a global leader in perfusion imaging. Their goal is to innovate PET diagnostic imaging by transforming blood flow quantification by making 15O-water PET practically available in clinical settings.

In November 2022, Innovation Centre Denmark (ICDK) in Silicon Valley hosted a 6-day academic masterclass – The ITU Explorer Program – in collaboration with the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). On this trip, 35 post-graduate managers and directors, studying Master in IT Management at ITU, got first hand-experience of the pace of digitalisation in Silicon Valley.

By attending ICDK Seoul's Metaverse Innovation Camp, Kanda, a Danish software company specialising in virtual reality training, gained valuable insights and connections within the metaverse industry in South Korea. As a result of the camp, Kanda was able to establish a strong network and gained a deeper understanding of the South Korean metaverse ecosystem, which is recognised as one of the leading nations in the metaverse field.

After a successful establishment in the US and Europe, Danish research and design company Deep Nordic was keen on launching the brand Deeprio in India. However, launching a new product in the cluttered Indian market for smart wearables required the perfect platform to get the right kind of visibility for the Danish startup.

In 2022 and 2023, over the course of four Fridays in November and December, Innovation Centre Denmark (ICDK) in Silicon Valley together with its colleagues in Shanghai, Bangalore and Tel Aviv, and its partner in Denmark, IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), travelled virtually to four cutting-edge tech ecosystems. Here, the students met inspirational tech leaders, founders, experts and investors from India, China, Israel and USA. During the four days, the students explored how digitalisation is applied across the value chain in various industries and different regions of the world.