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India and Denmark reviewed cooperation on MSME development, innovation and intellectual property at the fourth meeting of their Joint Working Group, held in Copenhagen from 24 to 28 August 2026.
The Indian side was led by Dr Rajneesh, Additional Secretary and Development Commissioner in the Ministry of MSME; the Danish side was represented by the Danish Patent and Trademark Office and the Royal Danish Embassy.
Discussions covered technology adoption, innovation, intellectual property, technology commercialisation, entrepreneurship and cluster-based MSME development.
The delegation also took part in the Nordic-India Startup Summit 2026 hosted at TechBBQ, a major Nordic startup event.
India-Denmark services trade stood at 4.25 billion dollars in 2025, and India exceeded its export target to Denmark by 6 per cent in 2025-26.
Provides the statutory definition and framework for micro, small and medium enterprises in India
Key: Classification rests jointly on investment in plant and machinery or equipment and on annual turnover, and an enterprise must satisfy both criteria
Widen the MSME net to reflect inflation and enterprise growth
Key: Notified on 21 March 2025; investment limits raised 2.5 times and turnover limits doubled
Define the three categories under the revised criteria
Key: Micro: Rs 2.5 crore investment and Rs 10 crore turnover; Small: Rs 25 crore and Rs 100 crore; Medium: Rs 125 crore and Rs 500 crore
Frame India-Denmark cooperation around green growth and technology
Key: Agreed at a virtual summit on 28 September 2020 and operationalised through a Joint Action Plan for 2021 to 2026
Denmark occupies the Jutland Peninsula projecting north from Germany, plus an archipelago of more than 443 islands, and it controls the straits where the Baltic Sea meets the North Sea through the Kattegat. Germany is its only land neighbour. Sweden lies across the Oresund from Copenhagen and Norway across the Skagerrak. Greenland and the Faroe Islands, both self-governing parts of the Kingdom of Denmark, sit far away in the North Atlantic, which is what gives a small European state an Arctic footprint.
Denmark was the first country with which India signed a partnership under this name, later followed by similar green-focused arrangements with other partners.
Through Greenland and the Faroe Islands, Denmark is an Arctic Council member state, while India is an Observer at the Council.
The Danish counterpart in this dialogue is a patent office, which links the discussion to India's own National IPR Policy and the office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.
Cluster-based development is a long-standing instrument of Indian MSME policy, which makes the Danish cluster experience directly transferable.
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With reference to the 'National Intellectual Property Rights Policy', consider the following statements: 1. It reiterates India's commitment to the Doha Development Agenda and the TRIPS Agreement. 2. Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion is the nodal agency for regulating intellectual property rights in India. Which of the above statements is/are correct?
Answer: Both 1 and 2
Consider the investments in the following assets: 1. Brand recognition 2. Inventory 3. Intellectual property 4. Mailing list of clients How many of the above are considered intangible investments?
Answer: Only three
A working-level bilateral mechanism that meets periodically to review and plan cooperation in a defined sector.
The Danish Patent and Trademark Office, India's counterpart institution in this MSME and intellectual property dialogue.
The India-Denmark framework agreed on 28 September 2020 covering political cooperation, green growth, renewable energy, water and intellectual property.
A policy approach that supports geographically concentrated groups of small enterprises through shared infrastructure, testing facilities and common services.