Jutland Goes Global (But Not Haywire): An Autobiographical View of Danish Business Culture

Authors

• Poul Houe

Keywords

entrepreneurship, Jutland, innovation

Abstract

This essay—or review article, if you will—continues where my presentation at the October 2013 DAHS Conference in Des Moines, Iowa, left off.1 Much like its precursor, the present text is about innovation originating from Thy (and other regions of Jutland), but unlike the earlier piece, which dealt with three innovators ranging from the early to late nineteenth century and from spiritual to material domains of culture, the following discussion will be about more recent achievements by one individual in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Moreover, the window on Danish culture at large—its spiritual dimension and Danishness not least—that this recent actor and his activities open up is framed by material means. That said, the historical dimension of my DAHS conference talk remains relevant, though instead of recording significant moments of the past, the present history presages its subject’s future.

Recommended Citation

Houe, Poul (2023) "Jutland Goes Global (But Not Haywire): An Autobiographical View of Danish Business Culture," The Bridge: Vol. 46: No. 2, Article 5.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thebridge/vol46/iss2/5