Innovation for businesses, organisations and authorities

Boosting your innovative development with research and innovation from UCPH

A collaboration with UCPH is built on knowledge sharing and joint value creation that contribute to reliable solutions.

A strong collaboration requires that UCPH can match you with relevant researchers with academic weight and time. From you, it requires time, data and often financial resources.

At collaboration.ku.dk, you can get an overview of how a collaboration with UCPH works and how it can be valuable for you.
Collaboration – University of Copenhagen

Businesses, NGOs, organisations, authorities – we can work with everyone

When a business, an organisation or an authority contacts UCPH with a request or a need that we are able to meet, we want to collaborate.

In a collaboration, you will contribute with practical knowledge about your field, market, target groups and needs, while UCPH will contribute with specialised research environments and solid interdisciplinary competencies.

The combination of your insights and our research can create research-based and practice-oriented solutions with real impact.

Use UCPH’s knowledge – and get new perspectives on your challenges

A good collaboration often starts with bringing existing knowledge into play. It provides insight and a qualified basis for making decisions. 

Some of our collaboration tools are:

• Dialogue meetings and events where businesses and researchers at UCPH explore needs, trends and possible interfaces.
• Collaboration with students who work with realistic cases and contribute with the latest methods, data and perspectives.
• Interdisciplinary sparring where your experiences meet research-based knowledge from multiple disciplines.

With these tools, you can get in-depth academic knowledge when you need expert advice and academic breadth when challenges require a complex, interdisciplinary perspective.

Get the knowledge you need – in collaboration with UCPH’s researchers

If areas of the collaboration are lacking data, insights or evidence, we can take the next step: Research collaboration.

New knowledge can help you to:

• Identify new opportunities
• Test hypotheses
• Create documented evidence

Develop new technologies, methods or practices.

Access to state-of-the-art facilities and equipment

Through collaboration, businesses gain access to the University’s laboratories and technical environments, including:

• Biological, chemical and technical laboratories
• Test facilities and specialised measuring equipment
• Data infrastructure
• Makerspaces and development workshops.

These facilities give you the opportunity to test, develop, measure and and work with prototyping faster without having to invest in equipment yourself. At the same time, your practical challenges enhance our research and education.

What do businesses and organisations typically want to know?

We can help answer questions such as:

• How can UCPH specifically help us with our challenge?
• How soon can we start – and what will it require?
• How much does it cost and what funding opportunities are available?
• How do we ensure that the collaboration creates real value?

We want to make it easy for you to get started and establish a partnership that will make a difference for your business and society.