The Øresund Model is a unique model for growth based on knowledge  in a crossborder region.

By combining the forces of regional research and innovation platforms and  twelve universities in collaboration with the public sector and industry  across a national border has created a growth engine that is beginning to work after a couple of years of building.

Some of the unique features are
• cooperation between a large number of actors across many types of borderlines
• four research and innovation platforms united under one umbrella
• uniting within the triple helix system the main regional actors into innovation systems
• the base is multi: biotech, food IT, logistics etc. It is not a one crop region
• projects and initiatives across borders, i. e. food-health
• including an entrepreneurial academy into the concept
• the size of it: 12 universities – 6 science parks – 2000 companies
• the ownership and financing is very manifold. There is not one dominating actor even though the universities play a very important role

The Øresund model was in 2006 evaluated by the OECD and received very generous comments.