GREATER COPENHAGEN Northern Europe's hub for science and innovation Knowledge-intensive With 14,000 researchers, 160,000 students, 10 university hospitals, 12 universities and 19 science parks & innovation incubators, Greater Copenhagen offers Scandinavia’s most knowledge-intensive research and business environment. Highly educated More than 30% of Greater Copenhagen’s workforce holds a bachelor’s degree or a higher level of education. € 6.5bn Most R&D personnel in business per capita in the EU (Denmark no. 1 Sweden no. 2) In total yearly research funds per year in business alone. - IMD Number one in Europe for ease of doing business - World Bank

UNIVERSITIES IN GREATER COPENHAGEN 2 14,000 researchers 160,000 students 10,000 PhD students

SCIENCE AND INNOVATION 3 Greater Copenhagen fosters and attracts leading companies, talent and ground-breaking research and development in growth industries such as: Life sciencesGreen industries ICT Food and food additives Creative industries Supply chain DONG Energy, NovoZymes, DHL, Rambøll and Haldor Topsøe and CLEAN, a leading cleantech cluster. Maersk, DFDS, DVS Transport, UPS, Kuehne + Nagel, DHL, Cobham Satcom and Scandlines. Microsoft, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Toshiba, Broadcom, Cisco, Intel, IBM and Nokia. Strong Danish brands from creative Greater Copenhagen include BIG Architects, designers such as Arne Jacobsen and the world’s best restaurant NOMA. Carlsberg, Nestlé, Danish Crown, Kelsen Group, Arla Foods, GEA Process Engineering, SPX Flow Technology and Alfa Laval. Novo Nordisk, AstraZeneca, Lundbeck, Leo Pharma, Ferring, Coloplast, Radiometer, Medtronic, B-K Medical, Oticon, GN ReSound and the world-class life science cluster Medicon Valley.

WORLD-LEADING SCIENCE AND INNOVATION SYSTEMS 4 The Greater Copenhagen region is home to some of the world’s best conditions for science and innovation. The German Innovation Indicator ranks Denmark 1 st and Sweden 4 th in the world on science innovation. This indicator measures countries on parameters such as: Technology transfer between industry and science Public expenditure on science Number of researchers Patent registration The level of knowledge and technology that companies can use as input for development and innovation. Source: Innovationsindikator 2015 bei Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (acatech), Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI), Fraunhofer- Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung (ISI) und Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW).