Since 1971, Denmark has embedded PhD students inside private companies for three-year, university-supervised research projects. A 2012 government register study of 676 …
Copenhagen, Denmark
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 27%76/100
Denmark's 2006 law obliging firms to report gender-disaggregated wage statistics narrowed the gender pay gap by about 2 percentage points (13%), mainly …
Denmark's seven GTS institutes are non-profit bodies under multi-year government performance contracts to diffuse applied technological knowledge to Danish firms; in 2024 …
Copenhagen, Denmark
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 39%71/100
DTU's university-run innovation hub has produced roughly 850 new businesses since 2013 (about 80 a year); by 2024, DTU-founded startups had attracted …
Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 45%67/100
Denmark's national digitalisation-voucher and advisory scheme has backed over 7,000 SME projects since 2018 through the country's regional business hubs; a March …
Denmark's data-protection and digitalisation agencies jointly run a regulatory sandbox giving organisations free, project-specific guidance on GDPR and EU AI Act risk …
Active since 1997, Medicon Valley Alliance is the cross-border cluster for the Øresund life-science region (Eastern Denmark, Southern Sweden) — 400+ companies, …
Denmark's Ministry of Education issued seven AI-in-schools recommendations in June 2025, complemented by Datatilsynet's 2023 GDPR guidance, forming a dual-layer framework covering …
Copenhagen, Denmark
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 46%60/100
Since 2014 Denmark’s Skattestyrelsen has run a real-time ML system flagging suspicious VAT refund claims; it reports ~70% accuracy, is now integrated …
Copenhagen, Denmark
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 68%56/100
Parliament-mandated fund (2020) pays landowners to convert drained farmland to forests/wetlands, financed by certified CO₂ credits. By 2022: 24 forests, 230 ha, …
Copenhagen, Denmark
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 82%52/100
Danish startup Tiimo replaces text-heavy calendars with visual timers and gamified task breakdowns for people with ADHD, autism, dyslexia and dyspraxia, reaching …