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Health 2050 – Four scenarios for human-driven health and freedom of choice

This scenario report examines how hidden resources in people and communities can be better utilized to tackle the toughest challenges of health and healthcare.


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Briefing: Successful Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Digitalisation is no longer about computers; people and physical things are becoming hyperconnected with cheap, abundant sensors resulting in the merging of digital and physical realities. To meet these challenges, Nordic societies look for new ways to prosper in the era of hyperconnectivity while upholding the traditional Nordic values of trust, equality and human-centrism.


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Funding platform for piloting and experimenting

The funding platform for piloting and experimenting is an attempt to combine the strengths of small-scale experiments and RCT’s by encouraging parties engaged in experiments to learn from each other, by providing support measures, and by bringing different stakeholders and actors together to implement and fund experiments and pilots through a digital platform.


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The Future as Told Through the Garden and the Streets

In the future, the new technologies will
emerge that combine physical and digital
realms. This doesn’t mean that the Internet
will be everywhere. It means that the physical and the virtual world will collide, come together, and exchange qualities.


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Nordic Cities Beyond Digital Disruption

The stories of places like Songdo in South Korea or Masdar city in Abu Dhabi fit the classic Smart City mold: technologically highly advanced, newly built cities, planned in a top-down manner by leading architects and technology companies. This, however, is not the reality in which most of us urban-dwellers live.


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Trailer of Nordic Cities beyond Digital Distruption

Urban development is not the same as it used to be. In many cities in the Western world, urbanisation continues, while compromising on a building stock in dire need of renovation. Radical changes in structures of economy and work, our need to drastically cut our greenhouse gas
emissions, the emergence of the sharing economy, and many other strong drivers are changing the way we live, faster than ever before.


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