NOVI offers flexible premises for knowledge based companies – premises which can be changed along with the growth and development of the company. In addition, NOVI offers to handle practical functions such as accounts, payments, inventory, office supplies, canteen, etc. so the tenants can focus on the essential task – making their business grow.

 

NOVI is also one of Denmark’s 6 government appointed innovation environments, whose purpose is to transform ideas, inventions or research results into commercial businesses.

 

The innovation company - NOVI Innovation A/S - was set up in 1998. Since then NOVI Innovation has evaluated more than 1,000 new business ideas. About 10% of these ideas went all the way and resulted in the establishment of a business. In 2008 the environment has 39 living companies in its portfolio.

 

NOVI Innovation A/S offers the entrepreneur a package of services to ease the transformation of the idea into a business:

• Counselling, sparring and follow up

• Access to accounting assistance, IT and marketing support

• Access to laboratories and other technical facilities, office space, and inventory at NOVI Science Park

• Risk capital and private venture capital

• Networking with knowledge institutions, industrial partners and investors.

 

How can you design car seats focusing on both safety and comfort? Or office chairs that will fit any body? How do repetitive strain injuries occur? And can we prevent them? The company AnyBody Technology A/S can answer these questions with scientific substantiation.

 

Established in 2001 with NOVI Innovation as a shareholder, the company develops and sells the software system AnyBody Modelling System. The systems can simulate human movement. It can calculate muscle forces, joint reactions and efficiency for any given movement. The system is therefore applicable within many areas and branches and the company has both commercial customers - Adidas, DePuy (orthopaedic devices), Ford Motor Company – and scientific partners. The company has been developing and growing steadily since its establishment and is a perfect example of the importance of commercialising new knowledge and research – making innovative ideas accessible to society.

 

For further information visit the company’s web page www.anybodytech.com

 

Have you ever tried to pick up a teddy bear with a gripper arm at a funfair? Then imagine designing a bin picker robot that can pick up items for a production line! Scape Technologies A/S has done exactly that. The company develops and sells bin picking systems and has developed an advanced 3D vision technology, which is an integrated camera in the robot that is able to locate the position of an item in a bin, and then pick it up. Scape has developed and improved the system in close cooperation with Grundfos (Denmark) and AH Automation AB (Sweden).

 

The system is already in use at Grundfos. Another important partner is the world known Swedish robot manufacturer KUKA, who has integrated Scape’s bin picking system in their robot solutions. It started out as a university project, which later found its way to NOVI Innovation A/S. In 2004 the establishment of Scape Technologies A/S was a reality and the company has grown steadily ever since. In 2008 the company won the KUKA Robots Application Award and its future is promising.