He has advised the EU Commissioner and watched companies raise billions – now he’s leading a new entrepreneurship initiative aiming to solve Europe’s biggest headache

Europe struggles to turn research into business. That’s the shared realization among both politicians and business leaders. At DTU, however, efforts are underway to build the companies that will drive tomorrow’s growth and prosperity – and so far, the results are promising. With Mikkel Sørensen as director, DTU is together with PSV Foundry, DTU SciencePark, DTU Entrepreneurship and DTU Skylab launching, through a subsidiary, a “factory” designed to guide entrepreneurial companies through a three-to-five-year process to reach the next stage — from startups to so-called scaleups. DTU SkyFactory, aims to help around 10 percent of newly founded DTU-based companies unlock their full scaling potential, as it’s described.