Letter from the President and CEO and Chairman of the Board

Technology for a better and more resilient future

"Trust is the new currency" was the main theme at the World Economic Forum's summit in Davos 2025, where the Danish Technological Institute was invited as a speaker and contributor. Europe is facing significant and complex challenges – technologically, competitively, and in terms of security – and collaboration and trust across borders, sectors, and stakeholders are essential.

In 2024, the Danish Technological Institute hosted new types of partnerships across value and supply chains, focusing on rapidly maturing technologies and new forms of collaboration. This aligns precisely with the role pointed out at Davos as essential and is a contemporary realization of the Institute's more than 100-year-old vision of positioning itself "where you sense that the Institute's help will be needed."

We succeed when businesses succeed

In 2024, the Institute assisted over 11,000 companies with new solutions to specific challenges that they lacked the resources or knowledge to solve on their own. The Institute steps in where the market cannot address the challenge independently, taking risks for businesses by investing in equipment and the development of new knowledge. Through concrete technological solutions, knowledge, and laboratories, we help businesses and society navigate significant transitions.

Once again in 2024, the Danish Technological Institute was awarded Performance Contracts for 2025-2028 by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science. These contracts enable the development of high-risk competencies and capacities to the benefit of Danish companies. When businesses, both through words and actions, underscore our relevance and value – then the Institute has succeeded.

An indispensable part of the Danish innovation system

Denmark's growth and prosperity are built on competitive companies with strong positions in global value chains. The Institute transforms ideas into business and creates robust ecosystems around key technologies. By supporting companies' digital and green transitions, we contribute step by step to addressing major global agendas.

Impact for society, business, and individuals

The Institute's 1,100 employees are driven by strong values and a desire to act. Every day, they embody the role of an Approved Technological Service Institute with high integrity and a societal focus, ensuring results through their integrity and result-oriented behavior.

As an advisor to the European Commission ahead of Denmark's EU Presidency in 2025, the Institute is helping to secure Europe's position in a geopolitically challenging time. Particularly, so-called dual-use technologies, which serve both civilian and defense purposes, are in focus. This means that resilience is added to competitiveness, green transition, and digital transformation as part of the impacts that the Danish Technological Institute strives to create for society, businesses, and individuals in the coming years.

• Juan Farré
  President and CEO
• Mikael Bay Hansen
  Chairman