How do you say ‘wet lab’ in Danish?

Boston’s biotech hub — and the tax revenue it brings — is an enviable engine for economic growth. Foreign governments have naturally taken notice, and a few have gone as far as embedding themselves in the Bay State with the goal of building skunkworks Kendall Squares back home.

As STAT’s Kate Sheridan reports, Denmark just opened an incubator in Cambridge with just that in mind. The Danes are following in the footsteps of Japan, Canada, and the Netherlands, each of which has set up shop in Kendall in hopes their homegrown startups can learn some replicable lessons about biotech entrepreneurship.

And Boston is an ideal model because it “has a venture capital and angel community that invests in life science companies at all stages of development, a well-funded research infrastructure, and a big focus on supporting the entrepreneurial ecosystem,” said Christine Sarkisian, Canada’s trade commissioner for life sciences business development in the area.

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