Forskere: Aase-Kristine Aasen Lundberg, Kjersti Granås Bardal, Arild Gjertsen, Vegard Gundersen, Ole Kristian Fauchald, Odd Inge Vistad, Gunn Elin Fedreheim
Forskere: Marianne Karlsson, Grete Kaare Hovelsrud
Forskere: Evgueni Vinogradov, Birgit Leick, Bjørnar Karlsen Kivedal, Mehtap Eklund
A successful innovation in industrial development policy.
The report evaluates Nordland County Council's innovation strategy (2014-2020), the first regional strategy for industrial development in Norway following the EU scheme for smart specialisation. The strategy differs from earlier industry development by focusing innovation as the prominent driver of growth, using place-based strengths, targeting a more diversified industrial structure, increasing companies' research interactions, and cooperating broadly in order to discover, facilitate, and release innovation initiatives with great potential for growth. The most important measures have been to develop, diffuse, and anchor a new body of thought among policy and public support actors, to co-ordinate instruments towards the strategy, to improve relations between the county council and trade and industry, to increase the region's capacity for relevant research and education offerings (modern localisation conditions for companies), to use innovation system hubs to drive company collaboration in innovation and relevant research, and to direct cluster projects towards the latter. The strategy work has i.a. resulted in strengthening a sustainable experience economy in tourism and increasing company-initiated R&D in industry, and exciting side effects like a broad initiative towards algaculture and advanced plans for a giga-factory for electrical car batteries in Helgeland. The organisation of further work should adapt to new constraints following the recent regional reform.
Forskere: Håkon Finne, Åge Mariussen, Jarle Løvland
Forskere: Cecilie Høj Anvik, Trond Bliksvær, Esben Søndergaard Bruun Olesen
Forskere: Suyash Jolly, Teis Hansen
Forskere: Julia Olsen, Marina Nenasheva, Grete Kaare Hovelsrud, Gjermund Wollan
Forskere: Indra Øverland, Anatoli Bourmistrov, Brigt Dale, Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox, Javlon Juraev, Eduard Podgaiskii, Florian Stammler, Stella Tsani, Roman Vakulchuk, Emma C. Wilson
Forskere: Dag Leonardsen, Therese Marie Andrews
Forskere: Arild Gjertsen, Ingrid Agathe Bay-Larsen, Hilde Bjørkhaug, Bjørn Vidar Vangelsten
Forskere: Evgueni Vinogradov, Abbas Strømmen-Bakhtiar, Marit Kristin Kvarum,, Kristian Rydland Antonsen
Forskere: Evgueni Vinogradov, Bjørnar Karlsen Kivedal, Birgit Leick
Forskere: Leticia Antunes Nogueira, Aase-Kristine Aasen Lundberg, Thoralf Fagertun, Maiken Bjørkan, Jan Dietz
Forskere: Karin Marie Antonsen
Forskere: Amsale Kassahun Temesgen
Forskere: Brigt Dale, Maiken Bjørkan, Keno Ferter
Forskere: Håkan Torleif Sandersen, Julia Olsen, Grete Kaare Hovelsrud, Arild Gjertsen
Forskere: Brigt Dale, Sarah W Cooley, Johnatan C. Rayn, Laurence C. Smith, Chris Horvat, Brodie Pearson, Amanda H. Lynch
Forskere: Kjersti Granås Bardal
Forskere: Halvor Dannevig, Grete Kaare Hovelsrud, Erlend Andre T. Hermansen, Marianne Karlsson