Innoversity

INNOVERSITY FEATURED IN DANISH RADIO PROGRAMME

December 2002 - Susanne Justesen appeared in the Danish National DR Radio programme 'Frekvens' on P1, in which she describes what it means to build your business as an entreprenuer based on an idea, i.e. the idea of innoversity. Other profiles in the programme are the Danish writer Tor Nørretranders and Innovation researcher Henrik Herlau.

INNOVERSITY OPENS NEW OFFICES IN NEW YORK

October 2002 - By mid December, Susanne Justesen will be moving to New York to be able to kick off the first projects in New York in the new year. So from January 2003, Susanne will be doing projects, talks and consulting in both New York and Copenhagen. If you want to know more, please don't hesitate to contact Susanne at susanne@innoversity.org

NEW COLUMN AT INNOVERSITY NETWORK

October 2002 - You can now find an innoversity column here at the Innoversity Network Space, where Susanne Justesen will write about new ideas, insights and learnings. This month you can read about how to use mentorship to spice up innovation.

FIRST REAL INNOVERSITY NETWORK MEETING

October 2002 - We are proud the present the first 'after-work-meeting' in Copenhagen on November 26th, which will feature an interesting talk about innovation at VELUX by Søren Søgaard from VELCAP. The meeting will take place at 17:00 - 18:30 at United Spaces, Nicolai Eigtvedsgade 26, 1402 Copenhagen, Denmark. Please join us for the meeting! Sign up...

REDUCED CONFERENCE FEE FOR INNOVERSITY NETWORK

September 2002 - Members of the Innoversity Network are granted a discount when signing up with the 'Innovation & Creation' conference in Aarhus, Denmark on September 18-19th. Read more...

INNOVERSITY IN NEW YORK IN SEPTEMBER

September 2002 - Susanne Justesen, Innoversity.dk was in New York once more in the attempt to build a business case for innoversity in the New York area. Most of the stay focused on further developing the business plan with a new NY partner.

EVALUATION OF INNOVERSITY WORKSHOP

July 2002 - A dissertation is currently being worked on based on the participation in and the evaluation of a workshop held by Innoversity.dk - together with actress Roxana Kia - in June in Copenhagen. We look very much forward to learning from the work done by Camilla Mortensen on the workshop.

INNOVERSITY REPRESENTED AT CONFERENCE IN PORTUGAL

June 2002 - Susanne Justesen from Innoversity.dk partipated in a 5 day long Dialogue with experts in the field of Communities of Practice in Setúbal, Portugal. After the Dialogue days, a Round Table was held where Susanne presented a paper to a wider audience.

DIVERSITY IS NOT DANGEROUS, MERELY INSPIRING (IN DANISH)

April 2002 BizReport - This article by Susanne Justesen from Innoversity.dk exhibits a warning against similarity and closure in Danish Business life. Recruiting for executive boards, top management positions and employees alike seems to focus too much on similarity and too little on diversity. And we need a major shift in Denmark in this regard if we do not want to fall behind when it comes to innovation and new thinking. 'Cause if we all look alike - who do we expect to come up with new ideas??

NEW ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY SUSANNE JUSTESEN

April 2002 - The article has been published by Leading Capacity, which is a web-based management tool for management and organisational development in Denmark. The article is in Danish and describes how to work strategicly with diversity as a means for organisational innovation. You need to be a subscriber to Leading Capacity to read the article

INNOVATION & INNOVERSITY CONFERENCE CANCELLED

April 2002 - It was with great regret and sorrow that we have had to cancel the very first Innovation & Innoversity Conference to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark in April 2002. We simply had too few participants - But Innoversity.dk hopes to be able to realaunch another conference next year.

INNOVERSITY PARTNERING ON ON DIVERSITY CONFERENCE

March 2002 - Innoversity.dk participated and co-arranged a large conference in Denmark on March 18th with approximately 1000 participants. Innoversity.dk did a workshop aswell as being present in the exibition area with material, posters and inspiration. The Innoversity.dk team did a very good job in spreading the innoversity virus. Read more and see pictures from the event by clicking above

WHY INNOVATION IS A BETTER INCENTIVE (IN DANISH)

March 2002 in Information (a Danish Newspaper): This article describes the conference about diversity which was co-organised by innoversity.dk. In the article Susanne Justesen, Innoversity.dk explains why assimilation may be the result of a too narrowminded social responsibility strategy, and how innovation as a motivation for diversity seems to offer better incentives for a better overall integration.

INNOVERSITY MOVES INTO UNITED SPACES COPENHAGEN

March 2002 - Innoversity.dk is now a member of United Spaces Copenhagen, which is a flexible and efficient office solution based upon networking, knowledge sharing and creativity - - a network office. We are currently 45 different companies and 90 entrepreneurs in United Spaces Copenhagen - and the decision to move into the office has proved to be a very good one. A range of good and inspring conversations with fellow-enthusiasts have so far stirred up a lot of new ideas for use by both Innoversity.dk and Innoversity Network. Please follow the link to learn more about United Spaces

LAUNCH OF NEW DANISH PORTAL: JOBSAMTALEN.DK (IN DANISH)

March 2002 - The portal which was launched on March 4 was the result of an almost one-year long project directed by Susanne Justesen, Innoversity.dk. The project focused on getting diversity into the workplace by focusing on the job interview as a door opener. The information presented at Jobsamtalen.dk is based on app. 30 interviews with both recruiters and applicants, who shared their experiences about barriers and pitfalls in the job interview and give their advide as to how these barriers can be minimised, thereby allowing for an increased diversity in Danish organisations. At the launch reception, which was held togther with the jobportal: omarjob.nu on March 4 , almost 200 people showed, including two Danish Ministers. It was a happy and none the least important day to Innoversity.dk

INNOVERSITY.DK CONSIDERS OPENING OFFICES IN NEW YORK

January 2002 - A lot of networking and searching is currently taking place in order to examine the possibilities of Innoversity.dk venturing into the New York Area. Nothing has yet been decided upon, but the ambition is to be able to launch the first Innoversity initiatives in New York by the end of 2002. If you would be interested in working with Innoversity.dk in New York or if you know of anyone who could be interested - please contact Susanne Justesen at susanne@innoversity.dk