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Meeting with the CONNECT team “Expertise, infrast
ructure, and support offered by the OCC Incubator help to professionalize the company development early on. Collaboration and exchange among cluster members, the national and international network developed over many years, increasingly international management teams, and local investors with a successful track record of company creation, such as Radforsk, are also important ingredients for success,” summarizes Jutta. To strengthen the Nordic region as a whole, Jutta believes it is important to further strengthen existing initiatives and collaborations, acknowledge the different and often complementary strengths, and to be open to share and learn from best-practice and the increasing number of success stories that each country has. 40 “It is important to leverage our joint innovation pipeline and critical mass on a global level to increase visibility and to attract international partners and investment,” she continues. “For example, we are involved in partnerships for NLSDays and we are participating in a consortium for the Nordic Pavilion at Bio International Convention.” Jutta also states that it is important to exploit European funding opportunities, including the European Cancer Mission, Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan and Horizon Europe, to create novel Nordic and International Consortia. “Areas of common interesta are e.g. precision medicine innovation and implementation, cell therapy, immunotherapy, health data, real world evidence and AI,” she says. NLS PHOTO FARTEIN RUDJORD/OSLO CANCER CLUSTER