Nordic Innovators is an innovation and grant consultancy company with offices in Denmark, Spain, France and Norway. We assist SMEs, large companies and public sector clients throughout Europe in obtaining European or national grant funding for their innovation and research projects.

At Væksthuset I was responsible for several projects and with coaching entrepreneurs and SMEs on growth strategies – in particular on soft funding for R&D projects, the possibilities of establishing international partnerships and on the possibilities of engaging in public-private innovation in the healthcare market. Larger projects included:2015-2017: Nordic Business & Living Lab Alliance (www.livinglaballiance.org)I was the head of the Nordic Business & Living Lab Aliance from its start in 2015. The project focused on identifying, developing and dissemination best practices on how Nordic municipalities test and co-create together with companies within independent living. The project partner group was: City of Oslo, Helsinki, Reykjavik, Copenhagen and Västerås supported by Forum Virium Helsinki and the Icelandic Federation of Industries. 2015-2017: Enterprise Europe Network (EEN)Through EEN I assisted Danish companies in finding and engaging in international collaboration. Examples included assisting companies in contracting with international distributors or suppliers as well as finding international R&D partners2014-2015: Offentlige-Private Alliancer (OPALL - www.opall.dk) OPALL created numerous PPI partnerships between municipalities, companies and research and educational institutions within welfare technologies. OPALL was funded by EU and regional funding with a total budget of circa 23 mill. DKK. From 2014 to the end of OPALL in 2015 I was the overall project manager of OPALL. I managed the budget, deliveries, reporting etc. and coordinated the partner group of DI, Dansk Erhverv, KORA, DTU and Professionshøjskolen Metropol2013-2014: TekBoost TekBoost matched DK companies with a panels of experts and researchers that provided input on R&D challenges. I managed the project with a budget of 8 mio. DKK and a partner group consisting of the Danish Technical University, University of South Denmark, Aarhus University and Copenhagen University

I worked as a senior consultant for a Danish consultancy firm with services focused on acquiring funding for technology based innovation projects. My work was focused on sales and delivery of projects. I advising my customers (primarily Danish SMEs and LEs) on obtaining and using external funding both strategically and for specific innovation projects. I was responsible for sales and closing of contracts as well as delivery of projects. This entailed entering projects at an early stage where I assisted customers with conceptualizing and defining project ideas. I also established contact to potential project partners in order to ensure a clear value-chain in the projects e.g. partners with R&D competencies, partners with production capabilities and partners with market access.

Working as a project manager at Innovayt managing proposals and doing contract negotiations for EU's 7. Framework Programme, EUREKA's Eurostars programme and the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation.

I worked for the Capacent Innovation department assisting my customers with: - The EU 7. Framework programme targeting small- and medium-sized firms with specific focus on the forging and robotics industry. - The EU 7. Framework programme, large scale integrating collaborative project for nano-structured polymer-matrix composites.- Grant negotiations on a +5 mill € project- Application for the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (Højteknologifonden) on a +50 mill DKK project. My tasks consisted of doing market analysis, project and budgetary planning, finding and coordinating project partners from across Europe, doing technology assessment and preparing business cases.

Working as a consultant on research projects at Copenhagen Business School. The research projects were looking at connections and effects of mental and visuel stimuli on creativity and design thinking. I assisted the research group with analysis, data-collection and planning.