What Vive does

VIVE (The Danish Center for Social Science Research) is Denmark's national research and analysis center for welfare state policy. Established in 2017 and operating under the Danish Ministry of the Interior and Health (Indenrigs- og Sundhedsministeriet), it conducts applied social science research and analysis across eight knowledge areas: Labour Market; Children, Youth and Family; Daycare, School and Education; Management and Implementation; The Social Sector; Health; The Elderly; and Economy and Governance. The organization employs 101–250 staff across headquarters in Copenhagen and a secondary office in Aarhus, drawing on senior researchers, professors, and domain experts. Its methodological core combines quantitative approaches (population-level Danish register-based analyses, surveys, longitudinal cohort studies) with qualitative methods (interviews, ethnographic studies), enabling multi-decade tracking of welfare trajectories.

VIVE does not sell commercial software products or technology platforms; its offerings consist of commissioned research reports, expert consultations, publications, themed knowledge pages, and events/webinars. The customer base is exclusively the Danish public sector — national ministries (anchored by the Ministry of the Interior and Health), Denmark's 98 municipalities (kommuner), and the five Danish regions — with engagement delivered via direct government commissioning. Revenue mechanics are professional-services based: research contracts and project assignments awarded by public sector bodies rather than subscription or transactional pricing. Distribution is led through vive.dk (publications, expert profiles, weekly newsletter), webinars, annual conferences (e.g., VIVE-konference), and direct engagement with decision-makers in the public sector.

Operationally, VIVE maintains an academic collaboration with Aarhus University on governance and welfare research. Its intangible assets include an extensive publication portfolio (over 1,300 publications in labour market, 1,500+ in children/youth/family, 2,100+ in social sector, 930+ in health) and 48+ ongoing studies in labour market alone. The organization holds a formal national mandate as Denmark's designated welfare research center, and no private equity, venture, or individual ownership is present — it is fully state-owned and state-funded.

Name

Vive

Legal name

Det Nationale Forsknings- og Analysecenter for Velfærd

Website

https://vive.dk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

VIVE is Denmark's national welfare research center operating under the Ministry of the Interior and Health. It conducts register-based and longitudinal social science research across eight knowledge areas, serving Danish national ministries, 98 municipalities, and regions through commissioned research contracts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Copenhagen

HQ country

Denmark

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Government research contracts: Core funding from the Ministry of the Interior and Health for conducting research and analysis projects across all major welfare areas. Research assignments commissioned by government bodies, municipalities, and regions.

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Core offering

VIVE is an independent research and analysis center that conducts social science research on welfare and the welfare state across eight knowledge areas: Labour Market, Children Youth and Family, Daycare/School/Education, Management and Implementation, The Social Sector, Health, The Elderly, and Economy and Governance. It combines quantitative methods (register-based data, surveys) and qualitative methods (interviews, ethnographic studies) to deliver evidence-based research commissioned by the Danish government, municipalities, and regions.

Product overview

VIVE (The Danish Center for Social Science Research) is an independent research and analysis center operating under the Danish Ministry of the Interior and Health. It conducts research and analysis on welfare and welfare-state topics across eight knowledge areas: Labour Market, Children and Families, Daycare/School/Education, Management and Implementation, The Social Sector, Health, The Elderly, and Economy and Governance. VIVE's offerings include research publications, expert consultations, ongoing surveys, themed pages, and events/conferences. As a public-sector research institution, VIVE does not offer commercial software products or technology platforms.

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Products and services

• Commissioned Welfare Research Projects Contract research projects commissioned by Danish ministries, municipalities, and regions covering all major welfare areas including labour market, children and families, education, social sector, health, elderly care, and governance. Each project is delivered as a scoped study combining quantitative and qualitative methods and culminating in a research report for the commissioning public sector body.
• Research Publications and Reports Evidence-based research publications, reports, and analyses published across VIVE's eight knowledge areas, made available to public sector decision-makers, practitioners, and the general public through the VIVE website. The portfolio includes 1,300+ publications in labour market, 1,500+ in children youth and families, 1,200+ in daycare/school/education, 2,100+ in social sector, and 930+ in health.
• Longitudinal and Cohort Studies Long-term cohort and longitudinal studies following the same groups of individuals over time to track welfare trajectories and life course outcomes. These studies leverage Danish administrative register data to provide population-level evidence on social, health, educational, and labour market outcomes.
• Conferences and Seminars Annual and topic-specific conferences and seminars, including the VIVE-konference on welfare challenges and subject-specific events such as senior workplace seminars, designed to disseminate research findings to public sector practitioners, policymakers, and stakeholders.
• Webinars and Virtual Events Online seminars presenting VIVE research findings to practitioners, policymakers, and stakeholders, such as webinars on children's digital lives and other current welfare topics.
• Themed Research Pages and Surveys Themed research pages and ongoing survey instruments maintained by VIVE to monitor welfare-related phenomena and provide updated evidence to public sector customers on a continuous basis.

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Aarhus Universitet (Aarhus University)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVIVE collaborates with Aarhus University on research projects, including studies on governance logics in state administration of welfare areas. The partnership combines academic research capabilities with VIVE's applied welfare research focus.

Scale indicators3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• NOVA – Norwegian Social Research: NOVA is Norway's national welfare and social research institute, organizationally adjacent to OsloMet. It is the closest Nordic structural analogue to VIVE: publicly funded, applied social-science research commissioned by government ministries, municipalities, and agencies, with mixed-methods studies on welfare, labor, education, and family policy.
• Fafo – Institute for Labour and Social Research (Norway): Fafo is Norway's applied social-science research institute covering labor, welfare, integration, and living conditions, funded by ministries, agencies, and the Norwegian Research Council. Closely comparable to VIVE's mix of commissioned applied research, public-sector client base, and broad welfare-domain coverage.
• IFAU – Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy: IFAU is a Swedish government agency under the Ministry of Employment, producing evaluations of labor-market and education policies using register data. Directly comparable to VIVE's labor-market and education knowledge areas, both as a national evaluator and a public commissioning beneficiary.
• SOFI – Stockholm University Centre for Social Research: SOFI is Sweden's leading academic welfare-state research center, focused on social stratification, labor market, education, and welfare outcomes using register-based and longitudinal methods. Highly comparable to VIVE in methodology (register data, cohort studies) and policy-relevant applied research orientation.

Regional players

• WIFO – Austrian Institute of Economic Research: WIFO is Austria's primary economic and policy research institute, producing cyclical and structural analysis for the Austrian federal government. Comparable to VIVE in its public-funder client structure and applied policy-research orientation, though more focused on macroeconomics rather than the full welfare-state agenda.
• Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER): LISER is a publicly funded Luxembourg-based research institute conducting social-science and policy-oriented research on employment, education, social policy, and urban development. Comparable in operating model (public funding, mixed-method applied research for government clients), though with a different geographic focus.

Others

• Danmarks Statistik – Statistics Denmark: Statistics Denmark is Denmark's central statistical authority, producing register-based statistics on population, welfare, labor, health, and education. Although it generates data rather than commissioned research, it is the principal data steward underpinning VIVE's register-based research and a structural peer in Denmark's evidence ecosystem.
• KORA – predecessor merged into VIVE: KORA (the Danish Institute for Municipal and Regional Service Research) was merged into VIVE in 2017. It is the direct institutional predecessor of the current VIVE entity and historically was the most comparable peer in topic (municipal welfare services), now subsumed.

Broad incumbents

• RAND Corporation: RAND is a large, U.S.-based policy research institution delivering evidence-based analysis across health, education, labor, and social policy for government clients. It is a broad incumbent analogue to VIVE in mission and operating model, though far larger in scale, geographic scope, and funding mix.
• Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS): IFS is a UK economic and social policy micro-research institute evaluating welfare, tax, labor-market, and public-service programs. It mirrors VIVE's evidence-for-policy role, with strong ties to government and a register-data-driven evaluation approach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

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