Year: 2000
Type: preprint
Abstract: Innovation performance in the capital region of Norway.Potentials for improvement.The paper presents an analysis of the Oslo-region, which is the capital area of Norway, with respect to innovation activity and the networking of firms in the innovation process.The Oslo-region is the most knowledge-intensive industrial area of Norway.The business activities are marked by relatively high expenditures on research and development (R&D), the employees are the highest educated in the country and companies collaborate more with universities, research groups and foreign partners than companies in other parts of the country.The main question in the paper is to what extent an innovation system can be found in the Oslo-region.By mapping the existing interactions between business activities and the research and technology environment in the region, and relate these to processes of innovation, one are able to look into the operative innovation system of the region.To further explore this issue, we carried out five qualitative industry studies in the Osloregion.Our findings showed that the innovation demand of firms differed between industries and between firms of different size.Nevertheless, a general problem was related to collaboration between firms and the scientific community in the region.The problem was rooted in both a competence mismatch and a "cultural" mismatch.In the paper we discuss further findings that could give insight into the ways in which innovation performance of a region could be improved.
Author: Heidi Wiig Aslesen
Language: English
Subfield: Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1571089596