When you surf the internet, different companies gather your data in the form of so-called cookies, which are used to, for example, tailor advertising. Now, the Danish ISP Waoo has developed a new plugin that allows you to…
The InnoFrugal Conference acts as a forum for best practices, policy analysis, sharing the latest thinking and highlighting success in frugal innovation . The second annual InnoFrugal event was held last week at Heureka , the Finnish Science…
Reshopper helps families to recycle items such as clothes through their platform, which joins local buyers and sellers. Now, former AirBnB manager Aja Guldhammer Henderson has joined Reshopper to help them flourish abroad. For last four years, 31-year-old…
Startup Refugees , set up by Finnish journalists and entrepreneurs Riku Rantala and Tunna Milonoff , gives refugees the skills to enter the workforce and set up businesses. Rantala and Milonoff got the idea for the project while…
Startup Tourism , a new 10-week accelerator program held in Iceland from February 1st, 2016, is now in full swing. As the number of tourists in Iceland increases exponentially, startups rush to fill the challenges that arise. Oddur…
Sjálfsbjörg, the Icelandic federation of physically disabled people, has recently opened up a new entity within the organization called Frumbjörg , an Innovation Center with the aim of supporting innovation s for the disabled. It has been obvious…
Every year, over 100,000 children of jaundice, mainly because of lack of access to diagnostic equipment in the poorest parts of the world. A new Norwegian app aims to reverse this statistic. The treatment of jaundice is both…
After a test period in Scandinavia, Plane is ready to launch its icebreaker app globally . The launch will occur in connection with the LAUNCH Festival in San Francisco . The founders of plane are CEO and co-founder,…
Creathio is a platform that “bridges specialized students with cases posted by companies that have a problem to solve, or simply want to improve an area of their business”. The goal of the company is to match students…
Sustainable Brands is a global business community dedicated to helping shift the world to a sustainable economy. In anticipation of their Copenhagen conference in 2016, founder KoAnn Skrzyniarz outlines 7 sustainable, global business trends. KoAnn Skrzyniarz travels around…
Iceland’s Frumbjörg , started by Brandur Karlsson in cooperation with Sjálfsbjörg , the Icelandic national federation of the disabled, is an Innovation Center for Mobility. The initiative’s goal is to provide the disabled with the opportunities for employment…
A Danish start-up company called Unfair Fashion is taking on the challenge of changing the mindset in the fashion industry . Innovation and creative thinking often rely on a flexible market environment, willingness to change, and the potential…