Open innovation

Copenmind is a global event, founded and hosted in Copenhagen, Denmark. The value of COPENMIND
is the unique combination of academia and business; a cutting-edge
platform for partnerships creating the world’s first truly global
marketplace for university-industry interaction in relation to
technology transfer and research partnerships. COPENMIND
is an opportunity to gain insight on future research needs and learn
about the thinking and practices of some of the most important
knowledge resources from the scientific and commercial spheres.

COPENMIND serves three main objectives:

• An opportunity to discover unique technology transfer and join research opportunities.
• To promote participating companies, organizations, universities and research institutes.
• To develop partnering competence of attendants.

Get a look into the future

COPENMIND 2008 features an extensive programme of presentations, workshops
and seminars hosted and attended by universities, research institutes, organisations and
companies. The conference will follow six tracks:

1. Climate change & air pollution
2. Energy
3. Water
4. Waste & recycling
5. Agriculture & land
6. Partnership building

New partnerships, new technology, new business

COPENMIND takes technology transfer and economic match-making between science and
business to a whole new level. The aim is to establish research partnerships from which new
solutions and commercial opportunities will grow.

Full list of keynote
speakers (sample list below)

~ Masatami Takimoto, Executive VP, Technology Development, Toyota

~ Julia Hamm, Director of Solar Electric Power Association

~ Claude Fussler, Director for Caring for the Climate Program, UN Global Compact

Updated Conference Program

Updated Exhibitor List