Aarhus has a strong research- and development environment. The many educational institutions of the city annually turns out a large number of competent and highly educated knowledge workers, who contribute to making the business community in Aarhus innovative and competitive, nationally as well as internationally. The University of Aarhus is ranked among the “TOP100” universities in the world, and in top 20 in Europe in several renowned international ranking lists. This provides the business community in Aarhus with quite unique opportunities for specialist recruitment and establishing high international-level research collaborations. With a pronounced current growth in the number of professorships and growing number of students at the University of Aarhus and the Engineering College of Aarhus the environment will be further stimulated. Simultaneously, Aarhus is attracting ever more international research- and development employees.
Development environments
It is natural to look at Aarhus, if your business wants to be part of an innovative development environment. The city has a number of development environments and –networks, in which market leading businesses such as Google, IBM, Vestas and Bang & Olufsen take part. Thus, it is easy to bring together competent individuals from diverse sectors.
“The department in Aarhus contributes to securing B&O – now and in the future. Our department in the ICT-house means that we can recruit competent employees from the environment and establish research collaborations in an informal manner. It’s pragmatic, quick and effective,” says Peter Petersen, Director of Technology, Bang & Olufsen.