LATEST INNOVERSITY NEWS

INNOVATION HAS TO HURT (in Danish)
November 2009: Susanne Justesen was interviewed for this article in the Danish business magazine Mandag Morgen, about the role of collaboration in innovation. In the interview Susanne elaborates on the fact that Danish companies seem very good at instigating cross-organisational collaboration, but not very good at benefitting from such collaboration due to too much consensus-seeking.
JUSTESEN PART OF AER INNOVATION AWARD JURY
October 2009
- Association of European Regions (AER) has again this year invited Susanne Justesen to be part of the AER Innovation Award Jury. The jury just met in Brussels on October 9th to decide which European region should be awarded the annual AER innovation award. The award will be presented in Basel on October 27th 2009. Besides Susanne Justesen, the jury consists of Professor Peter Heydebrick (Inno-group, DE), Secretary General Klaus Klipp (AER), and Dr. Joachim Hafkesbrink (InnoWise, DE).
JUSTESEN NOMINATED EXPERT FOR EESC STUDY GROUP
April 2009 - Susanne Justesen has been nominated as an expert for an EESC study group in Brussels, working on an opion paper to be presented to the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament later this year. The group is working on recommendations regarding how to strengthen the role of European Universities in improving overall research and higher education in Europe.
MINI-BOOK ABOUT HOW TO INNOVATE WITH DIVERSITY
January 2009 - Susanne Justesen and Trine Bang are right now working on a new book from INNOVERSITY Research. The book is a case-based aiming to help innovation leaders leverage diversity for innovation, by learning from the unique experiences from studying the innovation of the 1st generation of bioethanol at Novozymes. We expect the book to be available in the early summer of 2009