KEY INDUSTRIES
The key industries within the Øresund Region are life sciences, ICT, cleantech, logistics and foodstuffs.The region's life science hub - Medicon Valley - is Europe's leading cluster within the life science area, and an attractive place to find business partners, locate your R&D centre or set up a Scandinavian headquarter. Medicon Valley offers unique dynamic business environments and inter-insitutional collaboration between hospitals, universities, public research institutions and the industry, offering rewarding opportunities to investors and businesses.
The Øresund Region is also a leading hub for innovative information and communications technologies. The region is a highly attractive place to do business within the IT sector, which was highlighted when Denmark received a top ranking in the World Economic Forum Global Information Technology Report 07/2008, closely followed by Sweden. The Øresund Region employs 100,000 people in the ICT industry alone, making it the largest IT cluster in Scandinavia.
