Petter Hartman of the Medicon Valley Alliance, a non-profit membership organisation spanning the Danish-Swedish life science cluster Medicon Valley, introduces the progress of the Alliance from a networking body to today facilitating concrete collaborations between its 300+ members. Hartmann also touches on the MVA’s key focus areas, talent hiring and retention challenges, and the benefits of even greater levels of research collaboration between Sweden and Denmark.
In the last couple of years, the Scandinavian life science industry has rapidly opened up and is now very willing to engage with society more broadly. Big, open innovation platforms have been established as private companies have begun to understand the importance of interaction with the research community and public healthcare systems
