Medicon – northern Europe’s medical valley – meets RTP
As Medicon Valley‘s visitors introduced themselves to their Research Triangle Park hosts, members of the Scandinavian delegation took care to note whether they speak Danish, Swedish or both. Medicon Valley is the life sciences cluster in Northern Europe, encompassing eastern Denmark and southwest Sweden. The cluster, spanning the Oresund Strait, includes 4 million inhabitants; 10 universities; 14,000 univeristy researchers; 32 hospitals and 450 companies and seven science parks. But although Medicon Valley has firmly established itself as a European sciences hub, the region has always cast its eyes for opportunities beyond Europe. For two days, those eyes were set...
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