As part of the Nordic Nexus Network project led by Iceland Ocean Cluster and funded by Nordic Innovation, with our project partners we recently hosted a webinar exploring how the Nordic region can strengthen cross-border collaboration and build a more resilient innovation pipeline.
The webinar shared the results of the Nordic Nexus Network stage one project, followed by two focused discussion sessions. The first session explored the core challenges innovators face in developing, testing, and scaling solutions in food, energy, and water, and discussed what makes testbed and community collaborations successful within a connected Nordic network. The second session explored what roles testbeds and community nodes should prioritize to boost innovation in food, water, and energy to 2050, whether current testing infrastructure meets future demands, and what’s needed to connect Nordic testbeds for successful commercialization.
With diverse perspectives from participants of the webinar across the Nordics, from industry to academia, from testbed operators to technology providers, their insights provided essential information to understand what is needed for the users, connectors, and ecosystems that enable good ideas in water, energy, and food to happen.
With all the valuable insights gathered from the webinar and the rest of the project, we’re finalizing phase one, which will feed into a second-stage application of the Nordic Nexus Network project.
