Posted on 17 December 2011.
Nordic Innovation is a free, online magazine showcasing all areas of innovation in the Nordic region. The third issue of the magazine has just been released and its over-60 pages are filled with useful and interesting information. Read the full story
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Posted on 28 July 2011.
A team from an Icelandic university has been awarded at the Formula Student international design competition at the famous Silverstone race track in Britain. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 February 2011.
Denmark’s flat landscape will no longer prevent people from enjoying downhill skiing after plans were revealed to turn a power plant into an artificial slope. Read the full story
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Posted on 16 October 2010.
A new Icelandic company plans to use British investment to launch a new premium vodka from Icelandic glacier water all over the world. Read the full story
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Posted on 28 March 2010.
Icelandic company Nox Medical this week received the annual innovation award supported by The Icelandic Centre for Research, The Icelandic Innovation Centre and the Trade Council of Iceland. Read the full story
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Posted on 04 March 2010.
A new report released yesterday ranks Iceland as the world’s innovation hotspot, stealing the crown from the USA. Read the full story
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Posted on 14 November 2009.
(UPDATED 16 November) A group of 1,200 Icelanders considered statistically representative of the population was brought together Saturday for the first time in an attempt to “harvest the wisdom of the crowd”. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 November 2009.
Steingrimur J. Sigfusson, Icelandic Minister of Finance says he has submitted new bills on innovation to the Althingi parliament. If the Minister gets his way, innovation companies will be able to benefit from tax breaks and investors will be able to subtract shares in innovation businesses from their taxable income. The total package could be worth as much as ISK 1.5 billion to innovation companies each year. Read the full story
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Posted on 24 September 2009.
The Asbru Innovation Centre – the knowledge and entrepreneurial community being formed at the old NATO airbase next to Iceland’s Keflavik International Airport – will host a new international health services centre. That is the goal of a new Term Sheet jointly signed recently by the Keflavik Airport Development Corporation (Kadeco) and Iceland Health. Read the full story
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Posted on 05 March 2009.
Around 300 people attended the yearly open meeting of the Icelandic Innovation Centre, held this week at Reykjavik’s Hilton Hotel. Discussion at the meeting focused on the Centre’s actions since the banking collapse last October. A press release from the organisation explains that the Innovation Centre’s quick reaction to the financial crisis garnered a lot of foreign media attention, leading to several stories on “the Icelandic way out of the crisis”, mbl.is reports. Read the full story
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No Motörhead wine for Icelanders, branding too negative
Reykjavík Winter Lights Festival begins today
Multiple shooting in Greenland hamlet
IMF refutes claim it tried to shut Icelandic national theatre and museum
Iceland central bank holds rates, predicts ongoing economic growth
Continued Malmö violence embarrasses police
Currency exchange privacy case thrown out of Icelandic court
Sauli Niinistö wins Finland presidential race
Iceland historic French village restoration finance secured
Murder in Hafnarfjörður
