For Corporate

One of CIEL’s core missions is to bridge the gap between university and industry and create a shared platform for collaboration. As a gateway to all entrepreneurship activities at the University of Copenhagen, the Technical University of Denmark and Copenhagen Business School, CIEL invites you to take part in shaping the ideas and organizations of tomorrow by collaborating with leading researchers, educators and students.

Why collaborate with CIEL?

Universities represent a significant source of new knowledge. As a central juncture between universities and the industry, CIEL offers your company access to the three strongest research environments in the Copenhagen area, and provides numerous opportunities for collaboration with university partners which can lead to increased innovation in your company.

What we offer

Collectively, the three partner universities represent Denmark’s broadest and deepest research-generated opportunity base. Working with CIEL will give you access to an impressive brain pool of 50,000 students, 4,000 researchers and more than 800 university and industry partners.

M atchmaking

We offer easy access to university researchers and students by providing you with an overview of prospective collaborations and matching you with the appropriate students, researchers and research environments.

Entrepreneurship Excellence

Entrepreneurship and innovation is our area of expertise. Our three partner universities collectively account for more than 50% of all entrepreneurship research in Denmark, covering all aspects of entrepreneurship from new product development over creativity to financing.

We work closely with student entrepreneurship organisations and initiatives, which gives us access to some of the brightest and most entrepreneurial students in the country.

Join our network

There are plenty of ways to collaborate with us. Industry and community partners are invited to play an active part in a variety of projects and activities –  as business partners in the Entrepreneurship Excellence Programs, as real life teaching cases or as mentors.
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