The Knowledge Triangle will improve society

07.11.14 | News
How can education, research and innovation work together as effectively as possible to improve society? A few years ago the concept knowledge triangle was coined to explicitly define the collaboration between these three fields. However, the Knowledge Triangle is also an international research project initiated by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

The Nordic Council has funded the Knowledge Triangle project since 2011. The objective is to develop an active network collaboration between Nordic and Chinese universities and colleges, with the express aim of creating results which provide tangible benefits in society. Another goal has been to increase knowledge exchange in both commercialisation and innovation.

"Network development has been successful", says project co-ordinator Halina Gottlieb. "Our future goal is to find opportunities to sustainably extend the Nordic networks and initiate collaborations with other European organizations and worldwide organisations. In this way we hope that knowledge transfer and collaboration between the humanities and the field of technology will be even smoother".   

Two large network groups have emerged within the project, the Nordic group which comprises 4 inter-Nordic networks, and the Sino-Nordic group consisting of 6 networks which includes both Chinese and Nordic partners.

At a seminar in the EU Parliament on the 17 November, the concrete results of the networks' collaboration, both the methods and specific examples, will be presented by a number of experts from the two network groups and other invited guests.

The idea behind the seminar is to simplify and improve interactions at both micro and macro level between the research, educational and business expertise areas. At the same time, the seminar will aim to provide inspiration to innovative social thinking by combining ideas and knowledge generated in the fields of design, culture, welfare and entrepreneurship.

In the long term, the Knowledge Triangle aims to further expand the networks and create a broad and continuous worldwide innovative collaboration between education, research and industry.

The seminar is open for any interested parties.