Promoting Start-Ups and Scale-Ups in Denmark's Sector Strongholds and Emerging Industries
Start-ups and scale-ups often make outsized contributions to innovation and job creation. This report examines the entrepreneurial ecosystems of three of Denmark's sector strongholds, sectors where future growth is likely to be generated - advanced production, energy technology and food and bio...
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Paris :
Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development
2022.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | OECD studies on SMEs and entrepreneurship.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009704932306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Executive summary
- Sector-specific policy recommendations
- Advanced production
- Energy technology
- Food and bio resources
- Cross-sector policy recommendations
- 1. Study background, objectives and approach
- Study background
- Study objectives
- Study approach
- Conceptual framework
- Method
- Report structure
- 2. Start-ups and scale-ups in Denmark's sector strongholds and emerging industries
- Introduction
- Key barriers to the success of start-ups and scale-ups
- Access to finance
- Entrepreneurship skills and capabilities gaps
- Access to international markets
- Access to networks
- Cultural attitudes
- Summary
- Policy measures in Denmark
- Access to finance
- Grants
- The Danish Board of Business Development
- Innovation Fund Denmark
- Technology Development and Demonstration Programmes
- European Innovation Council
- Loans and equity investments
- Danish Growth Fund
- Danish Green Investment Fund
- Entrepreneurship skills and capabilities gaps
- Advice, coaching and mentoring
- Danish Business Hubs
- Virksomhedsguiden
- Incubators and accelerators
- Beyond Beta
- Innofounder
- Incubators and accelerators at research institutions
- Other publicly-funded incubators and accelerators
- Access to research and technology
- Open Entrepreneurship
- GTS Institutes
- Technology Transfer Offices
- Access to international markets
- Trade Council
- Innovation Centre Denmark
- Investment Fund for Developing Countries
- EKF (Export Credit Agency)
- EKF Green Accelerator
- Guarantees
- Access to networks
- National cluster organisations
- Regional networks
- Cultural attitudes
- Summary
- Introduction to the national cluster organisations
- Manufacturing Academy of Denmark
- Energy Cluster Denmark
- Food &
- Bio Cluster Denmark.
- International comparisons of Denmark's start-up and scale-up performance
- Start-ups in Denmark
- Scale-ups in Denmark
- Summary
- Start-ups and scale-ups in Denmark's sector strongholds and emerging industries
- Scale of sector strongholds and emerging industries
- Start-ups within sector strongholds and emerging industries
- Economic footprint of start-ups
- Characteristics of start-ups
- Export activity of start-ups
- Summary
- Scale-ups within sector strongholds and emerging industries.
- Economic footprint of scale-ups
- Characteristics of scale-ups
- Summary
- Growth of sector strongholds and emerging industries
- All businesses
- Start-ups
- Scale-ups
- Summary
- References
- Notes
- 3. Advanced production
- Introduction
- Barriers to start-ups and scale-ups
- Difficulties in entering the supply chain
- The structure of MADE
- The role of large firms
- The role of regional clusters and regional entrepreneurial ecosystems
- Long development timescales
- Access to finance
- Branding, incubation and acceleration
- Talent shortages
- The role of universities
- Public procurement and testing and regulation
- Lack of diversity
- International policy experiences
- Austria - Plattform Industrie 4.0
- Overview
- Issue 1: Working groups with a focus on support for start-ups and scale-ups
- Issue 2: Qualifications and competences for Industry 4.0
- Issue 3: Co-operation between Plattform Industrie 4.0 and the mechatronics cluster to roll-out the Austrian Industry Maturity Model
- Issue 4: Sources of funding
- Issue 5: Added value of the platform
- Lessons for Denmark
- Recommendations for Denmark based on the Austrian case
- Sweden - Robotdalen (Robot Valley) and Automation Region
- Overview
- Robotdalen
- Issue 1: Longstanding commitment to start-ups and scale-ups
- Issue 2: Role of large firms.
- Issue 3: Funding and infrastructure
- Automation Region
- Issue 1: Practical support for start-ups and scale-ups
- Issue 2: Support from national government for infrastructure
- Issue 3: The role of Ignite Sweden
- Lessons for Denmark
- Recommendations for Denmark based on the Swedish case
- Advanced Manufacturing Supercluster, Canada
- Overview
- Issue 1: Gaps in the ecosystem
- Issue 2: Building consortiums involving large and small firms
- Issue 3: The role of Innovation Solutions Canada - public procurement of innovation and governmental challenges
- Issue 4: Evaluation
- Issue 5: Larger firms' concerns about working with small firms
- Issue 6: Skills shortages
- Issue 7: Supporting inclusive entrepreneurship objectives
- Lessons for Denmark
- Recommendations for Denmark based on the Canadian case
- References
- Notes
- 4. Energy technology
- Introduction
- Barriers for start-ups and scale-ups
- Difficulty bringing radical innovations to market
- Industry structure
- Incubators and accelerators
- The role of large firms in the cluster
- Access to finance
- Talent shortages
- The role of universities
- Public procurement, testing and regulation
- International policy experiences
- Norway - Three energy clusters and two catapult centres
- Overview
- Issue 1: The role of catapult centres for innovative start-ups and scale-ups
- Issue 2: Financial support for start-ups and scale-ups
- Issue 3: Tax incentives for R&
- D investments that are accessible to start-ups and scale-ups
- Lessons for Denmark
- Recommendations for Denmark based on the Norwegian case
- United States - Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Programme in Energy
- Overview
- Issue 1: Concerns over intellectual property rights (IPR) and regulation
- Issue 2: Entrepreneurial skills
- Issue 3: Areas covered
- Issue 4: Evaluation.
- Issue 5: Success factors
- Issue 6: Contribution of the policy to inclusive entrepreneurship objectives
- Lessons for Denmark
- Recommendations for Denmark based on the US case
- United Kingdom - Energy Systems Catapult
- Overview
- Issue 1: How the Energy Launchpad works with start-ups and scale-ups
- Issue 2: Infrastructure, pilots and testing
- Issue 3: Ownership of IP
- Issue 4: Involving start-ups and scale-ups in regulation design
- Issue 5: Diversity
- Lessons for Denmark
- Recommendations for Denmark based on the United Kingdom case
- References
- Notes
- 5. Food and bio resources
- Introduction
- Barriers for start-ups and scale-ups
- Access to international markets
- Limited firm-level innovation capabilities
- High levels of start-up failure rates
- Limited testing and piloting infrastructures
- Slow and burdensome regulation
- Lack of entrepreneurial finance
- Skills development
- University mindsets
- Lack of innovation engagement of large firms in the cluster
- Lack of diversity
- International policy experiences
- Netherlands - Foodvalley NL
- Overview
- Issue 1: Shared facilities
- Issue 2: Accelerator support for start-ups
- Issue 3: Working with corporates in start-up and scale-up programmes
- Issue 4: Research and entrepreneurship training with universities
- Issue 5: Policy on inclusive entrepreneurship objectives
- Lessons for Denmark
- Recommendations for Denmark based on the Netherlands case
- Ireland - Science Foundation Ireland Research Institutes (BioOrbic and Vista Milk)
- Overview
- Issue 1: Overcoming fragmentation
- Issue 2: Working with different kinds of start-ups
- Issue 3: Testing infrastructure and help with regulatory compliance
- Issue 4: Regulation and food standards
- Issue 5: Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
- Issue 6: Policy for inclusive entrepreneurship.
- Lessons for Denmark
- Recommendations for Denmark based on the Irish case
- Finland - Public Procurement for Innovation : KEINO
- Overview
- Public procurement for innovation
- KEINO
- Issue 1: Legal hurdles to supporting start-ups and scale-ups
- Issue 2: Climate-friendly procurement of milk and dairy products - Case City of Helsinki
- Issue 3: Using sustainability criteria in competitive bidding for food procurement - Case City of Salo
- Lessons for Denmark
- Recommendations for Denmark based on the Finnish case
- References
- Notes
- 6. Conclusions and proposals for Denmark
- Conclusions
- Cross-sector policy recommendations
- 1) Develop patient capital
- 2) Build collaborations between large firms and start-ups and scale-ups
- 3) Develop public procurement for innovation
- 4) Build university-industry collaboration
- 5) Provide long-term, freer cluster funding on a competitive bidding basis
- 6) Build linkages between national cluster organisations and regional entrepreneurial ecosystem actors
- 7) Promote diversity in the populations of start-up and scale-up entrepreneurs
- Timescales
- Annex A. Evaluation of cluster organisations in the three case study sectors
- The assessment framework
- Summary of cluster organisation assessment
- Collaborative capacity within clusters
- Network membership
- The role of large companies as support for start-ups and scale-ups
- Funding
- Absorptive capacity
- Intra-cluster knowledge system
- Extra-cluster knowledge system
- References.
