Innovation

DIREC fosters research-based innovation by facilitating research and innovation projects between academia, industry, and the public sector. We contribute to the development of responsible digital solutions that promote Denmark’s growth and welfare. Our research and innovation projects are crucial in developing solutions to some of the most urgent challenges facing society today.


Get an overview of our research and innovation projects, the impact areas we focus on, and how we train and equip researchers to create innovative spinouts based on the latest digital research. 

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Workstream manager

Mark Bernhard Riis

Head of Innovation

Technical University of Denmark
Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
E: mberi@dtu.dk
T: +45 61 39 63 54​

Contributing persons

Aalborg University
Department of Computer Science

Anders Pall Skött

Head of Business and Innovation

University of Copenhagen
Department of Computer Science

Kasper Hallenborg

Head of Department

University of Southern Denmark
The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute

Jørgen Villadsen

Associate Professor

Technical University of Denmark
DTU Compute

Peter Ibsen

Senior Business Unit Manager

IT University of Copenhagen
Open Entrepreneurship

Søren Poulsen

Special Consultant

Aarhus University
Department of Computer Science

Helle Zinner Henriksen

Head of Department

Copenhagen Business School
Department of Digitalization

Martin Møller

Chief Scientific Officer

The Alexandra Institute