About the Danish Industry Foundation
The Danish Industry Foundation’s mission is to promote the competitiveness of Danish businesses. Competitiveness as a concept should be interpreted broadly. The foundation is particularly concerned with strengthening companies’ ability to add value and create employment, thereby benefitting Denmark as a whole.
Competitiveness is crucial to the future success of Danish companies. The industry and business communities are key elements to growth, prosperity and job creation. In collaboration with the scientific and educational institutions, these key elements can create, market and export innovative business concepts and technologies, which will lead to a sustainable growth – economically as well as environmentally.
Target Groups
The Foundation’s target group covers all Danish companies, but SMEs and entrepreneurs with the potential to create growth and jobs are an area of special interest.
The Foundation may support projects intended for only a few companies, but the emphasis is always on making the new knowledge available to the business community and society at large and ensuring that the companies’ participation in the Foundation’s projects make an active contribution towards spreading knowledge, competences and innovation for the benefit of all.
Additionally, the Foundation focuses on projects that will in general contribute towards increasing growth and competitiveness for the Danish industry.
Focus areas
The Danish Industry Foundation has identified four thematic areas, which we deem essential for the Danish business sector’s competitiveness.
- Sustainable production whilst simultaneously creating growth
- Cybersecurity from a commercial angle
- New technologies and how to adopt them
- International mindset that permeates all aspects of the business
About the foundation
What we do
The Foundation supports projects that generate application-oriented knowledge, new competences and innovation, benefiting the industry. Through inspiration and project development, the Foundation’s means must help bridge cooperation between science and business. As well as supporting application-based projects, the Foundation also develops its own strategic initiatives within areas that can contribute to an overall strengthening of the industry and business communities.
Each year, the Foundation aims at funding projects for up to 30 Million Euros. All projects must be open-sourced, and consistent with our mission and strategy. Thus, the Foundation’s secretariat is actively engaged in all projects, and emphasizes communicating and sharing the findings and outcomes for the benefit of the applicants, companies, scientific community and other stakeholders.
Established in 1898, the Danish Industry Foundation is a registered business foundation and reports its annual accounts to the Danish Business Authority. In cooperation with the secretariat, a board of directors governs the Foundation’s equity of approximately 650 Million Euros.