In 2006 the Danish Government decided to strengthen private-public collaboration between government, companies, knowledge institutions and venture capital.
The initiative aims at establishing partnerships for innovation, where companies and research institutions may work together on common visions and strategies to develop and demonstrate new tecnologies taking into account market and export potentiels.
The objective is to accelerate innovation of technologies that may help reducing environmental problems. Participants in partnerships should identify opportunities and needs and agree on common goals and financing of development projects. Activities must be concrete, mutually binding and implementable. Activities could include:
- Joint development of demonstration projects.
- Collaboration on strategic actions abroad.
- Targeting education.
- Improving the public guidelines in the specific field.
- Coordination of knowledge building within the existing companies and organisations.
- New forms of knowledge sharing between public knowledge institutions and private companies.
Experience has shown that innovation grows best when these competencies are exploited in a close interplay between enterprises themselves and between enterprises, researchers and public institutions. Therefore it is advantageous to bring different competencies together in binding strategic partnerships.
In the energy field the following partnerships are established:
- The Megawind Partnership
- Danish Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
- Danish Partnership for bio fuels
- Partnership to lower energy consumption in buildings