Global Innovation Hot Spots - Expo Shanghai 2010 - Jørn Bang Andersen

Nordic Innovation Representations in China and Asia

Jørn Bang Andersen, senior advisor innovation

Expo 2010 Shanghai

Why Nordic innovation centres in Asiaʼs hot spots?

A new dawn

Nordic Demographics

Few Nordic students within hard sciences

The Nordic countries account for

% of global R&D produced

95% of worldʼs innovation outside Norden -Nordic countries have to come out of the woods

China is much more than

manufacturing...

increasingly innovation,

fashion, research...

Cleaner and smarter planet

Molecular farming

Sustainable housing!

Intelligentcities andtransportcooperation

Open innovation

Together Sweden, Denmark,

Norway,Finland and Iceland

On right track

Thank you for listening

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