As Medicon Valley‘s visitors introduced themselves to their Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 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 that encompasses eastern Denmark and southwest Sweden. The cluster, spanning the Oresund Strait, includes 4 million inhabitants, 10 universities, 14,000 university researchers, 32 hospitals, 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 on North Carolina as a group of 30 Medicon Valley representatives toured North Carolina’s Research Triangle. The visit was capped by a Tuesday night gathering at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center that brought scientists and companies from Scandinavia together with their counterparts in North Carolina. Their common language was nanotechnology.
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