A winter test flight over Espoo Late afternoon light fades to cobalt over the pines. A hand‑launched quadrotor lifts from a snowy car park outside VTT’s campus, its payload a prototype...
“Innovation” is an interesting word that is derived from the Latin verb innovare, which means: to renew, to restore, or to make new again. Thus the original meaning was...
🇸🇪 SWEDEN 1. 🇸🇪 Volvo FH Aero Electric – Long-Range Heavy Electric Truck A new battery electric truck with up to ~600 km range and fast charging using MCS standard, designed for long...
The world’s heating systems (industrial kilns, district energy plants, large commercial buildings) sit at the centre of a stubborn climate challenge. Electrification through heat pumps will carry...
Your correspondent has just spent 7 days in Kenya and Zambia looking at many innovations in agriculture, farming & forestry that are supported by Nordic investors. In general, without...
SUBMERSE’s audacious plan to turn the world’s seabed cables into a shared instrument, while governments race to keep their secrets hidden In the deep oceans, where visibility fades into...
As 2026 begins, the Nordic life science landscape is undergoing one of its most significant regulatory shake‑ups in a decade. Denmark, Sweden, and Finland — usually aligned in health ...
Denmark has just reshaped the global obesity‑treatment landscape again. On January 5, Novo Nordisk announced the broad U.S. availability of the Wegovy® oral pill, the first and only oral GLP‑1...
The world’s first dynamic green‑ammonia plant is officially in operation, and it isn’t in Germany, China, or the United States. It’s in Denmark. In late December and entering global...
Over the last month, the Nordic region acted like a coordinated innovation engine, with each country advancing distinct, but strategically interlocking, technologies. Finland delivered the month’s...
Across the Nordic region, a powerful innovation trend is reshaping residential construction: industrialized wood‑based building systems combined with next‑generation low‑carbon materials and...
Over the past 3 months there has been a huge amount of activity in this sector which many of you may have missed because of the holiday season - here is a quick summary off the top 15 announcements....
By Editor in Chief, Nicholas Anderson The second Trump administration has accelerated a structural shift in the global innovation landscape—one that Europe, and especially the Nordic region, must...
Stay up to date with a few recent Nordic industrial and research innovations performed with partners in Europe, North America, and in Asia‑Pacific Region with a summarized comparison table giving...
Here are our 18 recent Nordic innovations (announced within the last six weeks) from leading research institutes, universities and industry sources — grouped by country and numbered; each entry is...
Editor’s Note: This is a long read about seeking out Rare Earth Materials - but it is useful to pick topics of interest… Early academic demonstrations around 2019–2020 showed drones...
The Nordic region's strength in innovation is increasingly demonstrated through powerful collaborations, both within the region and with international partners. Since the start of 2025, a wave of...
🇫🇮 Finland VTT's Carbon-Recycled Plastic for Automotive PartsFinnish state-owned research body VTT announced a new method to create high-strength polymers from captured CO2 and biomass. The...
Nordic innovation has long thrived on a foundation of rule-based governance, international cooperation, scientific integrity, and predictable regulatory environments. Yet the emerging direction of...
(Coverage: roughly 23 October – 20 November 2025) 🇫🇮 FINLAND 🇫🇮 Finland’s VTT–Millog partnership accelerates defence-innovation transfer VTT and Millog signed a new cooperation...
🇫🇮 Finland – Nanoform Finland Plc:The Helsinki-based nanoparticle medicine company announced a partnership with Revio Therapeutics on a nano-formulated hydrogel drug (GLIORA)...
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with poorly understood etiology. In a landmark genome-wide association meta-analysis (GWAS) involving 4,814 HS cases and over 1.2...
A Hidden Driver of Ocean ProductivityAs the Arctic Ocean warms and sea ice retreats, scientists are uncovering surprising biological processes that could reshape our understanding of marine...
Fermentation has long been a cornerstone of human food culture, with yogurt representing one of its most iconic products. While industrial fermentation relies on standardized bacterial strains,...
🇫🇮 Finland 1) Wärtsilä → Australia’s largest DC-coupled hybridDelivers a DC-coupled solar+BESS architecture to the NEM.Hybrid layout aims to boost round-trip efficiency/revenues.Showcase...
Genmab, headquartered in Copenhagen, has built a strong royalty-driven foundation via approved medicines such as DARZALEX® (daratumumab) and TEP‑KINLY® (epcoritamab) while shifting into...
🇫🇮 FINLAND 1) University of Helsinki (FI)• Breakthrough on tumor immune evasion mechanisms (checkpoint regulation) announced Oct 2025.• Potential new targets for immunotherapies.•...
1) UCPH: AI predicts diseases 20 years ahead• Public health AI model forecasts multicomorbidity risk.• Validated with Danish registry data.• Could aid prevention/triage planning.•...
🇩🇰 Denmark DEN-1. Systematic adds new AI features to SitaWare Insight (1 Sep).AI chatbot for mission support; BYO models; deployable at edge.Enhances intelligence mgt. and...
forumNordic is Back with a Stronger, Sharper, & More Focused on Global Impact forumNordic.com has relaunched in a streamlined, powerful format designed for one purpose: to give Nordic...
As summer approaches readers will know that the Nordics go off to enjoy sunshine, forests, sea, mountains, and lakes. The annual trek has already started - brains and bodies will be rested because...
All Innovative Nordic companies and scientific bodies want and need international visibility – exports are essential but getting the innovations out into the markets is increasingly challenging....
During the COVID‑19 pandemic, Nordic countries exhibited relatively low mortality despite divergent policies. Denmark, Finland, and Norway recorded minimal excess deaths compared to reference...
In today’s energy‑constrained world, data centres are far from innovations—they are colossal consumers of electricity. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), “there is no AI...
By Nicholas Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, forumNordic In an increasingly interconnected world, the stability of the United States—economically, politically, and morally—has long served as a...
As of 2025, the Nordic countries have made steady progress in developing quantum computing capabilities. While Finland leads the charge with a mature ecosystem, other countries like Sweden, Denmark,...
In the latest edition of forumNordic News, nine press releases highlight groundbreaking scientific achievements from Nordic institutions including SINTEF, VTT, Aalto, DTU, Chalmers, and KTH....
