Knowledge Sharing and Virtual Networks
North Denmark is - more than other regions - a network society. The experience already made by enterprises of North Denmark in cooperation and mutually benefiting from each others strengths, is utilized and further developed in connection with several projects under the Digital North Denmark. Here technology is not the goal – but a means in product development and acquiring larger market shares and better positioning on the market.
Much has been said and told about the mobile phone adventure of North Denmark. But the fact is that the big developing boom in GSM based mobile phones would never have happened, had the small and medium-sized enterprises not been capable of collaboration and knowledge sharing. Enterprises that have branched off from each other - and normally in competition - were collaborating on tasks in which they had a shared interest. And this still happens in the industry.
But apart from the telecommunication industry many small and medium-sized enterprises have only little or no experience in collaborating and knowledge sharing. Several projects under the umbrella of the Digital North Denmark are addressing the SMEs offering a qualificational lift and competitive enhancement in a collaboration with other related enterprises. This sounds a far sight easier than is the case in real life - to many enterprises this means having to collaborate with the competition and overthrowing fundamental attitudes in the corporate culture and ingrown images of the market.
To entrepreneurs the thought of networking and sharing of experience is far less remote, and in the so-called entrepreurial hotbeds newly established companies have the opportunity of drawing on other enterprises. The Vækstcenter Nord of Hjørring is an example of an IT-hotbed that has made its contribution to create growth in an area not traditionally known for its IT-technology based enterprises.
New Networks for Farmers
Agriculture has great potential for cross-disciplinary collaboration – and sharing of knowledge. This is the scope of a DDN project. Several other projects are directed towards the collaboration between the farmer, the consultant and adviser. The farmer will often turn to his agricultural adviser with any professional question he might have – and the adviser will need to be go there to assess the problem. But if the monitoring and the consultant work could be digitized, each farmer would receive quicker –and hence maybe more efficient – assistance.
Several projects are committed to networking and knowledge sharing. Read more about each project – see the overview below.
AgroVidenNet
The Digital Chamber of Commerce
E-Business in the Aalborg Region - Electronic E-Business Developing Project for Enterprises
Agricultural Net/Landbonet
Knowledge Building Using Virtual Visualisation
VUR-IKON (IT, Competence and Network)
Vækstcenter Nord - An IT Hot-bed and Innovative Environment
www.agriworld.dk
 Printerfriendly version |
