Creative Denmark is your gateway to innovative and creative competencies, solutions, products, and processes.

Who we are

Creative Denmark is a not-for-profit, public-private initiative aiming to create awareness about the potential of Danish creativity as a driver for sustainability and quality of life.

We work to match the enormous potential of the ambitious creative industries with international demand for value-driven design and creative innovation.

Creative Denmark is funded by a strong group of public and private partners that count the Ministry of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Ministry of Culture, the Confederation of Danish Industry, the Danish Chamber of Commerce, and Realdania.

We engage with and welcome international stakeholders and decision-makers to Denmark to share inspiration and best practices that drive sustainability and quality of life around the world.

Creative Denmark is located in the BLOX building in Copenhagen and is part of the BLOX ecosystem together with Danish Design Centre, Danish Architecture Centre, and BLOXHUB. As a national and international epicenter, BLOX engages people in sustainable design, architecture, and urban planning. An engagement driven through collaborations, cross-sector learning, events, exhibitions, and business development.

Our vision

We envision a world where people and the planet thrive – and where creative thinking and solutions support ways of life that are both sustainable and enjoyable.

To succeed in the sustainable transition, we must rethink the way resources are used and make product lifecycles longer by designing a society based on circularity. To achieve this, we need creative solutions that are desirable and irresistible.

We believe creativity can push global agendas and that Danish creative solutions have the potential to drive sustainability and quality of life, creating value for people, businesses, and society, while respecting the planetary boundaries.

What we do

We assist and support international stakeholders and decision-makers in matchmaking, fact-finding, and collecting inspiration from the best cases within and across the creative industries. Through Creative Denmark, Danish innovators, designers, developers, pioneers, artisans, producers, creators, and disrupters are right at your fingertips.

Creativity can be a lot of things, but even across such diverse industries as

architecture, interior design, communication design, fashion, industrial & strategic design, digital games & XR, music & sound, film, TV & animation,  shared values defined by durable functionality, accessible quality, high aesthetics, and sensemaking pragmatism characterise a certain human-centred approach to solving real challenges for individuals, civilisations, and generations. You will see great examples of this when browsing the best creative cases or the House of Creative Denmark visitor centre.

The creative potential

Due to increasing international demand for innovative and responsive problem-solving across sectors, professions, and cultures Danish creatives have doubled their export since 2008.

Denmark is a credible, responsible, and playful testbed for ambitious technologies and innovative processes – and is home to a plethora of powerful strongholds, all tied together by a distinctive human approach accumulated through societal trust, equality in social structures, an incessant encouragement to improve established practices, and a methodology that insists on respecting the human perspective and experience.

Danish creatives collaborate across sectors and contribute to meaningful partnerships. Their creative solutions, products, and approaches has the potential to drive sustainability and quality of life and create value for people, businesses, and the planet.

Board of directors
Mette Kynne Frandsen
Chairwoman of the board, CEO, Henning Larsen Architects
Anders Thusgaard
Director of Business Policy, Ministry of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs
Sigrid Dahlerup
Head of Department, Ministry of Culture
Nina Kovsted Helk
Chief Philantrophy Officer, Realdania
Casper Klynge
Vice President, The Danish Chamber of Commerce
David Schjerlund
Global Director - Export, Innovation & Global Public Affairs - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Henriette Søltoft
Senior director, Confederation of Danish Industry
Torsten Andersen
Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Culture
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