News

• 24/10/2011Tourism needs to ride the innovation wave

  To remain competitive and vital on an increasingly competitive global arena, tourism companies need to implement an innovative thinking and create new value capture opportunities.

• 21/10/2011An overview of the projects in the Nordic marine innovation programme

  15 projects receives funding through the Nordic marine innovation programme. Here are short descriptions of all the projects.

• 24/10/2011Read about the winners of the cooking competition!

  Meet the winners of the cooking competition: Five young Nordic boys and girls ready to promote new Nordic food in Washington!

• 14/10/2011Nordic youth inspire American school students to healthy eating

  Swedish Magnus Westling and Norwegian Kristine Ildjarnstad are two of the five young Nordic food lovers who get to travel to Washington D.C. in October, and teach American school students about Nordic food culture.

• 14/10/2011Extensive Nordic pavilion at the Green Build expo - Toronto Canada 4-6 October 2011

  There was quite a bit of interest for the Nordic pavilion at the Green Build expo, at Toronto Canada 4-6 October 2011. The expo was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre that holds over 600.000 square feet of exhibit and meeting space.

• 14/10/2011A Nordic Innovation Fund could become a reality

  The Nordic Ministers for Business, Energy and Regional Policy have decided to continue discussions on the establishment of a Nordic Innovation Fund, together with the European Investment Fund (EIF), which will contribute with one third of the funding.

• 13/10/2011“Don’t try to the predict the future”

  Nordic companies must find the balance between investing in the present and the future, and they need to think businesses, not products.

• 12/10/2011Wanted: Collaborations, flexibility and tools

  A broader perception of the word innovation, an increased cooperation between companies and tools for managing and measuring innovation.

• 10/10/2011Innovation in Nordic companies explored and debated on the MMI mid-term conference

  Inspiring presentations, interesting results, good company, tasty food – and some fine jazz. These where some of the ingredients at the Nordic Measured and Managed Innovation (MMI) conference, where the first results from the MMI programme was presented.

• 20/09/2011Nordic tourism companies goes green(er)

  To be inspired and to receive useful tools for developing green innovation. These are some of the reasons why XXLofoten and Tivoli have chosen to participate in an innovation programme launched by Nordic Innovation and OECD.