Member States Board on Digital
Entrepreneurship
Panel 1: Digital Entrepreneurship Monitor
Digital Entrepreneurship: Focus on Denmark
Kristine Pontoppidan
Danish Business Authority
Listen to the private sector
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The Danish Government established a team of key
players within the private ICT sector to come up with a
number of recommendations on how to boost the Danish
ICT-sector, including digital entrepreneurship.
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On the area of digital entrepreneurs, they recommended
that the government helped ensuring a better
ecosystem.
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Message: Kick down the barriers and get out of our
way!
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What is a digital entrepreneur?
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Big differences on barriers for hardware and app
producers
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7 different archetypes ranging from the digital
shopkeeper through the software producer, the app
inventor and to the wiki-creator.
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Next step is to identify barriers for each of the
archetypes
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What will we do and what are we already
doing?
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Specific growth plan for the ICT-sector in second half of
2014
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New strategy on digitalization in the public sector in
2015
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The MFA provides assistance through Innovation Center
Denmark to Digital Entrepreneurs that wants to go global
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Focus on new areas of business: crowdfunding,
crowdsourcing etc.
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