The Danish Board of Business Development has appointed MADE as the new national Cluster for Advanced Manufacturing. As a cluster, MADE will unite and strengthen the ecosystem of manufacturing Denmark. Both MADE Chairman and Managing Director are proud that MADE is entrusted to take on this great task.
Today, MADE operates as an innovation network and will now with this designation have the opportunity to continue the work to ensure world class production in Denmark.
We are proud that MADE is appointed the new national Cluster for Advanced Manufacturing, and will approach this great task that is entrusted us with a humble and productive mindset.
Morten Buhl Sørensen, Chairman of MADE and Senior Vice President Supply Chain in Danfoss Drives
”We are proud that MADE is appointed the new national Cluster for Advanced Manufacturing, and will approach this great task that is entrusted us with a humble and productive mindset. We want to ensure even stronger cooperation across the country through new partnerships with regional business hubs, enabling us to assist even more SME’s and develop world-class manufacturing all over in Denmark,” says MADE Chairman Morten Buhl Sørensen, who is Senior Vice President Supply Chain in Danfoss Drives.
As a cluster, it is MADE’s job to:
Support strengthened productivity through innovation, knowledge-sharing, and cooperation across sectors between manufacturing companies and educational institutions.
Take advantage of the possibilities that lie in the Industry 4.0 technology.
Strengthen digital production and use of new advanced materials through cooperation between manufacturing companies and the Danish research environments within material technology.
Support export readiness and international partnerships, especially in the subindustries with lower levels of internationalization.
“We want to ensure an even stronger cooperation across the country through new partnerships with the regional business hubs, enabling us to assist even more SME’s and develop world class manufacturing in Denmark,” says MADE Managing Director, Nigel Edmondson and continues:
“In partnership with the Regional Business Hubs, we have developed a new initiative called “kickstart” – which provides SME’s who are looking to digitalize or make the transition to sustainable production with access to specialists, who can identify and implement the first improvements within a week, and assist with establishing a roadmap for the long term transition. MADE is a national collaboration across industry, the Danish Universities and RTOs, and the new partnership with the Regional Business Hubs will further our ability to help the local SME’s who have not previously been active in the Danish Innovation system, which is a great development.”
One cluster for each position of strength
The cluster organizations play an important role by facilitating and promoting cooperation in the ecosystems of Denmark’s strongest and most promising business and technology fields.
The appointment is part of the strategy “Business Development in Denmark 2020-2023” (DK title: Erhvervsfremme i Danmark 2020-2023), in which the Danish Board of Business Development has chosen the business- and technology fields that the future publicly funded cluster efforts are to focus on. Within each field there will only be one publicly funded cluster effort.
About MADE
MADE – Manufacturing Academy of Denmark – is a non-profit national cluster for advanced production consisting of companies, universities, GTS institutes and educational institutions, with a total of 220 members.
The vision behind MADE is to create world-class production in Denmark, and we have a strong network rooted throughout the country, and with the new designation as a national cluster, our local footprint will increase.
MADE is thereby a new national Cluster for Advanced Manufacturing. Advanced manufacturing covers the value chain in manufacturing industry, manufacturing business and automation technology. An important subsegment is companies within the manufacturing industry.
