In Reykjavik last Thursday 25 health and welfare companies and public stakeholders from Iceland participated in a workshop hosted by Nordic Innovation. The goal of the day was to inspire Icelandic companies and share knowledge about Nordic possibilities within health and welfare.
Through the Nordic Scale-up Lab, the Nordic Scalers companies learn how to succeed. During 10 weeks, the scale-ups went through 10 modules with different content in the Nordic Scale-up Lab.
The Nordic countries are integrated in an otherwise fragmented world. In a global context, the Nordic countries are small, and the Nordic region as a whole is economically strong, representing a significant, technologically advanced market.
Nordic Innovation gathered representatives from several sectors, public and private, for a Nordic Circular Get-Together at the World Circular Economy Forum taking place in Yokohama, Japan, this week.
Competing Nordic pelagic producers have joined forces to optimize the processing of mackerel. “This is extremely useful to us and gives us an international advantage,” Alexander Krokedal Rønnevik from Pelagia says.
The Nordics generate about 10 million tons of food waste every year, and the majority comes from households. The Nordic Council of Minister has carried out several studies and written several reports on how we can best utilize waste in our region.
