"This isn't just to be a city with startups, it's a living lab where universities, research institutions, hospitals, and businesses work side by side. This triple-helix model, which tightly integrates academia, industry, and government, has propelled this region to become the second most innovative regions in the EU. With over 1000 startups and a dense network of over 20 cluster organizations, Copenhagen creates a fertile ground for cooperation. The University of Copenhagen, for example, doesn't just produce groundbreaking research, it actively bridges the gap between science and entrepreneurship, ensuring that innovations move from lab to market."
""Clusters are where scientists and businesses meet. Not in theory, but every single day." said Giovanni Emma He made clear that Europe's scale-up challenges: fragmented markets, slow validation, and uneven regulatory capacity, cannot be solved by institutions alone. This ecosystem doesn't just support startups, it accelerates them, providing the infrastructure, networks, and resources needed to scale quickly."
Copenhagen and the Øresund Region operate a tightly integrated triple-helix innovation ecosystem linking universities, research institutions, hospitals, businesses, and government. The region hosts over 1000 startups and more than 20 cluster organizations, creating dense networks and infrastructure that accelerate commercialization. The University of Copenhagen actively bridges research and entrepreneurship to move innovations from lab to market. European Commission representation emphasized that clusters enable daily collaboration between scientists and businesses and that scale-up barriers—fragmented markets, slow validation, and uneven regulatory capacity—require coordinated ecosystem responses rather than isolated institutional action. Cross-border collaboration underpins the region's scaling potential.
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