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• 21.2.2012Nordic countries lead the Innovation Union Scoreboard 2011

  Sweden, Finland and Denmark are together with Germany the innovation leaders in The Innovation Union's performance scoreboard for research and innovation in the 27 EU member states.

• 16.2.2012Minister Lidegaard: Den grønne udvikling udgør et kæmpe potentiale for Norden

  Interview med den danske klima-, energi-, og bygningsminister Martin Lidegaard om det nordiske samarbejde, grøn vækst og det danske EU-formandsskab.

• 15.2.2012Sustainability as a business advantage in the building sector

  Sustainable building should be about joint company and community value creation, said Tuuli Kaskinen from Demos Helsinki at the Nordic Green Building Councils conference in Oslo on 9-10 February.

• 14.2.2012The Nordic Innovation Fund could be a frontrunner

  If the Nordic Innovation Fund becomes a reality, the Nordic region will be a frontrunner when it comes to establishing a multinational fund of funds.

• 13.2.2012Nordic-European joint response to EU-regulations

  The Nordic-European Public Investor Initiative has responded to the European Commission’s consultation on the draft Structural Fund Regulations for the 2014-2020 Programming Period. A joint written memorandum has been delivered to DG Regio och DG Research & Innovation within the European Commission.

• 10.2.2012Mission: Making the marine sector more innovative

  Natural resources alone are not sufficient to secure competitiveness and economic prosperity, said the Norwegian State Secretary Kristine Gramstad when she opened the first Nordic Marine Innovation conference in Oslo.

• 2.2.2012Future goals for the Nordic building sector defined in Copenhagen

  A free zone for testing current building regulations and developing new solutions, a mandatory environmental declaration scheme for building materials, sharing of best practice cases across borders and financial advantages for investing in energy efficient solutions. These are some of the suggestions to what could accelerate the competitiveness of the Nordic building sector.

• 26.1.2012State Secretary's opening speech at the Nordic Marine conference

  The Norwegian State Secretary Kristine Gramstad opened the first Nordic Marine Innovation conference in Oslo 25th of January.

• 23.1.2012How can the public sector become more innovative?

  - A future success criteria for public sector organizations will not be how to increase their budget, but how to decrease it and in the same time be able to provide a professionel welfare service level, said Margrethe Vestager, Danish Minister for Economics and Internal Affairs at a conference on how to make the public sector more innovative.

• 20.1.2012Green Business Models: The future of eco-innovation

  The role of business models in green transformation was discussed at a workshop hosted by FORA and arranged by OECD, the European Commission and Nordic Innovation.