Startups and scale-ups are Europes most dynamic engines of innovation, jobs, and competitiveness. Yet, their potential is constrained by the legal fragmentation of the Single Market: 27 national company regimes create barriers to incorporation, investment, and cross-border growth.
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Danish Entrepreneurs
NGO · Denmark · EU Transparency Register 407172747899-09
6
positions filed
in the 326 files tracked
6
legislative files
of 326 tracked
6
with a full position paper
attached to a submission
Counts here are a floor, never a total: they cover the 326 consultation files tracked so far (29,503 submissions, mostly 2025–26), so an organization's real filing history is larger, not smaller.
Who they are
Among the 1205 trade and business associations on this site, they rank #266 by legislative files engaged — a count of participation, not a measure of influence.
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declared lobbying FTE
self-declared
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EP accreditations
as declared to the register
2022
in the register since
Declares membership of
- Allied for Startups (https://alliedforstartups.org/)
- Global Entrepreneurship Network (https://www.genglobal.org/)
- S9+ (s9plus.eu)
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 30 Aug 2026).
- Register category
- Trade and business associations
- Registered as
- Danske Iværksættere (DKIV)
- Head office
- København S, Denmark
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 30 Aug 2026); cost bands are floors, not audited totals. Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
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Their record over time
Danish Entrepreneurs filed 6 positions between 10 Jul 2025 and 11 Mar 2026, across 6 of the 326 legislative files tracked here, attaching a full position paper 6 times.
2025 · 3 filed2026 · 3 filed
What they argued
Public procurement is one of the European Unions largest and most powerful economic instruments. When designed and implemented well, it can accelerate innovation, strengthen competitiveness and support the scaling of new solutions across the Single Market. When it is not, it becomes a structural barrier that limits competition and entrenches incumbency.
Danish Entrepreneurs representing over 17,000 startups across Denmark strongly support the EUs ambition to modernize digital infrastructure through the Digital Networks Act (DNA). However, we caution that unless designed with innovation at its core, the DNA risks overregulation, reinforcing incumbents, and undermining Europes ability to lead in next-generation technologies such as AI, cloud, IoT, and quantum…
Europe has world-class research and entrepreneurial talent, but too often we see breakthrough ideas fail to become thriving companies or to deliver sustainable jobs in Europe. This is due to the fragmented rules, disproportionate compliance costs, weak procurement opportunities, uneven access to infrastructures, and barriers to attracting talent that startups and scaleups face.
The EU has adopted an extensive set of digital regulations in recent years, including the AI Act, Data Act, Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act and the NIS2 Directive. While these initiatives pursue legitimate goals such as user protection, fair competition and cybersecurity, their combined impact creates a growing regulatory burden for startups and scale-ups.
Danish Entrepreneurs is a national business organisation representing startups and growth companies in Denmark. We work to improve framework conditions for entrepreneurship and innovation at national and European level. Please find our contribution to the consultation on the review of the Digital Decade Policy Programme attached as a PDF.
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Turns up on the same files
Organizations that also filed on at least two of the same consultations. A shared interest in the same dossiers — not evidence of coordination, and we do not suggest any.
- DIGITALEUROPE · 5 files in common
- ACT | The App Association · 5 files in common
- Allied For Startups · 5 files in common
- IDEE ECONOMICHE www.idee-economiche.it · 4 files in common
- Bitkom e.V. · 4 files in common
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