The Danish cluster program boosts SME innovation and competitiveness through business and knowledge environment collaboration. DFIR recommends maintaining the program with enhanced frameworks to strengthen ties between companies and knowledge institutions.
Danish municipalities face significant challenges in maintaining and developing high-quality welfare solutions. DFIR recommends strengthening the interaction between research and practice to create more sustainable and effective welfare solutions that benefit citizens.
Europe's investments in research and innovation are being outpaced by the U.S. and China, challenging the continent's global competitiveness. With the upcoming EU Presidency in 2025, Denmark has a unique opportunity to influence the future direction of Europe's research and innovation policy.
The financial stability of universities is challenged due to the shift in the balance between their basic funds and external research funds. With the 2025 research reserve, politicians can improve the framework for the universities' long-term employment policy and their fulfillment of core tasks.
EU's research programs enhance the quality of Danish research and innovation, but more can be done to strengthen incentives for Danish participation. This is the focal point of the conference to be held on April 19, 2024, at Christiansborg. DFiRbrief 46 is a contribution to the debate.
Artificial intelligence can revolutionize research and innovation and radically change the framework for Danish R&I. In 2024, the Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy has organized debates on the potentials, risks, and barriers for the development and application of Danish AI.
Research and innovation are crucial in addressing welfare challenges. Strengthening the link between research and municipal practice can be beneficial. Therefore, DFiR is launching a new project focused on research-informed welfare innovation in municipalities.
Danish universities and six private research-funding foundations have agreed to give university leadership greater financial management flexibility. This aims to strengthen democratic culture, researchers' academic freedom, and career guidance for Ph.D. students.
The number of private Danish companies investing in and engaging with research and development is decreasing, and R&D investments are becoming concentrated in fewer and larger companies. This brief summarizes DFiR's insights from an international workshop and examines trends in selected sectors.
Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize the way we conduct research and innovation and to radically change the framework for R&D. DFiR is inviting a series of debates on the potentials and risks of artificial intelligence for the Danish research and innovation ecosystem.
This brief summarizes key points from the series of debates on research and innovation in defense and security, which DFiR held in spring and summer 2023.
Since 2013, university colleges and business academies have had a legal mandate to conduct practice-oriented and applied research and development (R&D). In this brief, DFiR summarizes its analysis on how to better implement R&D in practice.
Universities' external relationships have strengthened, but democratic culture and academic freedom are challenged. Solutions include granting genuine autonomy, financial robustness, and enhancing leadership's focus on researchers' involvement, co-determination, security, and academic freedom.
In the last decade, the number of small and medium-sized enterprises investing in research and development has declined. This challenges the diversity in the growth layer of innovative companies. In a new analysis project, DFiR is examining the conditions for knowledge-based innovation in SMEs.
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