IT develops so fast that the companies’ traditional solo run in connection with product development, development and innovation no longer suffice. Today they need to focus on knowledge sharing.

Cooperation is an advantage and may in some cases be necessary. It is all about coopetition, a network financial term, which means that cooperation and competition – especially in the IT branch – ought to exist side by side.

Several companies have already moved their development departments to Katrinebjerg to be closer to the innovative research environment, e.g. Danfysik, B&O, Google, Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Danske Telecom, it-forum Midtjylland etc.

Read about the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University’s many years of experience in cooperating with the business world on these pages.