The Enterprise Ireland Copenhagen office identified the following areas of opportunity:

Engineering & Electronic Sector
Biotechnology
Life Sciences & Pharmaceutical Sector
Timber-Wood Pulp Sector
Environmental Engineering Sector
Optoelectronics & Nanotechnology Sector
Oil & Gas Sector
Automotive/Aircraft Parts Maintenance
Pollution Control Equipment
Solid Waste Recycling Equipment

Engineering & Electronic Sector

Key growth segments in this sector include telecommunications and process control, instrumentation and medical devices.

Biotechnology

Biotechnology is an important and growing sector in Denmark and Finland. The biotechnology industry is one of the most promising high-technology sectors. The areas of greatest strength are pharmaceuticals, biomaterials, diagnostics and industrial enzymes.

Life Sciences & Pharmaceutical Sector

Medicon Valley located in the Øresund region, encompasses Copenhagen on the Danish side and Skåne on the Swedish side.  It is one of the largest medical and biotechnological growth centres in Europe and home to more than 60% of Scandinavia's pharmaceutical industry. Medicon Valley has a large concentration of medico and bio-tech companies. On a per capita basis, Denmark is No.1 in medical device production, No. 2 when it comes to R&D spending in the pharmaceutical industry and Europe's No. 3 in pharmaceutical product exports.

Timber-Wood Pulp Sector

Current markets for Irish timber are the construction industry, panel board manufacture, pallet production and fencing. Finland has the biggest saw-mill industry in Europe, they are the third largest pulp and paper exporter in the world.

Environmental Engineering Sector

Demand for new and sophisticated high tech products and services continues to grow in Denmark and Finland. These countries are leaders in environmental technology. This offers considerable scope for Irish companies with their own expertise in this area.

Optoelectronics & Nanotechnology Sector

There is a tremedous advantage in working with new technologies in Finland and Denmark they are focused on R&D on future growth areas.  The current emphasis is on high-value, technology-intense exports.  Denmark and Finland can offer highly skilled research teams at universities and research institutes, and in particular companies can benefit from industrial partners of the highest standard.

Oil & Gas Sector

This is an attractive market for Irish companies. The nature and structure of business in the global oil and gas market place is changing. Industry is looking for innovative products and solutions that will add value.

Automotive/Aircraft Parts Maintenance

Production is diversified, but can be subdivided into finished products and components for auto manufactures. Thus there are oppotunites for clients who can supply friction parts and brakes as these are the largest product categories.

Pollution Control Equipment

The Nordic countries are among the world's largest per capita spenders on environmental protection.

Solid Waste Recycling Equipment

Solid waste recycling is booming in Finland due to the waste laws that were introduced in 1994, 1997, and the Finnish National Waste Plan 2005. Equipment for material recovery includes curshers, sieves, material sorting equipment, metal separators etc.

Further areas of opportunity:

• Agriculture Sector 
• Telecommunications

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