The Innovation Fund Denmark has been tasked by the Minister for Higher Education and Science to evaluate nominations for the ‘Into Innovation Award 2025’, which has been established on the Minister’s initiative and is awarded by the Minister. The purpose is to recognize a researcher, entrepreneur, or group of collaborators for their role in either founding start-ups based on research or for having played a significant role in enabling others to do so.

The nominations are assessed by experienced evaluators with solid knowledge of the Innovation Fund’s purpose and activities. Collectively, the evaluators must represent different academic domains as well as experience with the commercialization of knowledge-based innovation and/or research results. Therefore, the chairs of each of the ten permanent expert panels are involved in the evaluation task

The committee is:

Chairperson Claus Hviid Christensen CEO, Nexus

Deputy Chairperson Thea Larsen Board Member and independent advisor

Karina Rothoff Country Manager, Firi

Christian Møller Dahl Professor of Economics, SDU

Mads Kivi Jensen CEO, Made About Consulting

Tine Bruce Thygesen Board Member, Klimaskovfonden & Director, Quercia Capital

Poul Georg Moses CTO, Power-2-X, Topsoe A/S

Natasha Friis Saxberg CEO, The Danish ICT Industry Association

Peter Herskind VP, Product Design & Engineering, Coloplast

Peter Kristensen Consultant, PKristensen Consulting