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3 X MVA 1. How will you work towards positioning
Medicon Valley as the most competitive and attractive life science region in Northern Europe? “By zooming in on the strongholds of our region – especially the areas where we already have established or budding complementary strongholds – like diabetes, fertility, cancer, microbiome and stem cell research, etc. The strongholds are identified through our triple helix; public (hospitals), private life science companies and academia members.” 2. What are Medicon Valley’s greatest strengths? “We have world-class research going on at our universities and companies. Moreover, we already have a strong and growing cluster of both public, private and academic life science talent and companies. We are good at public-private cooperation compared to our competitors and are attractive countries and locations to live in for talent – a fact that’s extremely important in this “war on talent” and the lack of talent.” 3. What are Medicon Valley’s greatest challenges? “We need to align our cross-border challenges so people have incentives to work and live on different sides of Øresund. Furthermore, we need to find a way to access and use the valuable healthcare data that exists in both our countries in crossborder collaboration projects.”