Innovation and entrepreneurship website: www.ku.dk/innovation

The University of Copenhagen has been the university in Denmark for 450 years. Others have been established over the years, but the University of Copenhagen has maintained its position as the country’s largest research and learning institution with a wide array of degree programmes – Denmark’s national and international university all in one.

The University of Copenhagen’s goal is to undertake research of the highest quality, offer research-based education at the highest academic level, and to transmit new and traditional knowledge to the scientific community and society as a whole. 

The University of Copenhagen, which was "Denmark's Entrepreneurship University of the Year" in 2005, has united all its activities under one and directly accessible web portal. With a starting point in the working group concerned with innovation and entrepreneurship, the University of Copenhagen is working to establish several broader options in this field for both students and researchers alike. When it comes to the line of study, the Master’s elective courses in Business Humanities has been especially involved in entrepreneurship, including science shops and internship exchange markets offered by the individual faculties. The Tech Trans Unit offers assistance and consulting related to the exchange of technology between the university and the business community in the areas of patenting, establishing cooperation agreements with companies, etc.

 The University of Copenhagen also collaborates with CAT-Symbion Innovation and Symbion. The university is naturally also a participant in the Venture Cup. Based on the development contract, the university appointed a working group in 2004 whose tasks were to chart activities in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of Copenhagen, and to provide recommendations for further work. It has been decided that the working group will continue as a more permanent committee for setting up and coordinating initiatives and new offers at the university. To date, the University of Copenhagen has a wide range of activities in the field. One part is locally based in specific professional milieus.