This book would not have been possible without the assistance of a broad range of enthusiastic and dedicated team members, contributors, sponsors and informal advisors.
      The authors owe particular thanks to Lundbeckfonden, Nordea Bank Fond, Hempel Fonden and Kontrapunkt for extremely generous sponsorship.

Members of the team that followed the production process of the book through all its various stages each made valuable contributions towards bringing the project to fruition: Eva Beim Wind of Invest in Denmark, Kim B. Lundberg of Copenhagen Capacity, Steen Jakobsen of Wonderful Copenhagen and Nicolai Rottbøll Sederberg-Olsen and Thomas Bustrup of Dansk Industri all were rich sources of ideas, great collectors of background material and incisive commentators on the work in progress. Jakob Lumholtz of KPMG deserves special mention for organising logistics and agendas and chasing up contributions. Copenhagen Capacity and Wonderful Copenhagen generously provided meeting facilities.

Our contributors took to the task with great skill and verve. For so generously sharing their knowledge and acuity, we are profoundly grateful to: HRH Prince Joachim, Henning Dyremose, Professor John Donaldson, Tine Aurvig-Huggenberger, Mikael R. Lindholm, Hans Skov Christensen, Jens Olesen, Jørgen Mads Clausen, Larry Culp, Søren Milner, Björn Savén, Martin Lindstrøm, Tina Donnerborg, Erik Sørensen, Klaus Bustrup, Jakob Lyngsø, Niels Due Jensen, Tom Kähler, Jan Erlund, Christian Scherfig, Lars Kolind and Professor Ove Kaj Pedersen.

The companies covered in this book were unfailingly generous with their time as well as information and illustrations.
      We also drew on the advice of many other people, whose contributions, both large and small, were much appreciated: Finn Junge-Jensen, Ole Wiberg, Finn L. Meyer, Søren Krejler, O. Rolf Larsson, Lars Bernhard Jørgensen, Peter J. Hansen, Elisabeth Manford, Jens Bigum and Charlotte Boysen Schmidt.

Finally, our heartfelt thanks to our designers and to our publishers: Kontrapunkt’s Bo Linnemann very generously allowed us to use his award winning Kontrapunkt font and designed the book’s and the website’s stunning visual identity together with his colleague designer Allan Tonning. Ulrik Hvilshøj and Henrik Sebro of Gads Forlag, who were invited on board at a very late stage, worked miracles in producing such a fine product in record time.

Waldemar Schmidt and Clare MacCarthy,
Copenhagen, June 2006.

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