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SMEs and research – success story!

Kristine Kopperud TimberlidSenior EU adviser

Kristine.timberlid@innovasjonnorge.no

IN contribute to• Innovation in Norwegian trade

and industry

• Making Norwegian businesses competitive domestically and internationally

• Promotion of Norway as a tourist destination

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Making Europe more competitive – growth and jobs

• Helping SMEs becoming more competitive by making the most out of

the single market.

• Big unrealised growth potential in European SMEs: How to get

European economy back on track? Business + research!

• More and more a pre-requisit for European project financing

Examples: FP7 project where a research consortium needs to find a

company in another country dealing with a specific issue. Use EEN!

• One depends on the other, but different logics and culture• Business – short term, bottom line

• RnD – long term, openess

Key is to concentrate on content and not on organisation. How to facilitate?

• Financial crisis has led to changes (more preassure for cooperation) for both sides

Key: Awareness of the differences Skanska

Business + RnD = success ?

Report: «Brigde over troubled water», 2010. HIB, UiB, BTO, Innovation Norway.

• EU research program (FP7/8)• More and more demand for business

participation: Groth & jobs

• Enhances the link Research- SME

• Centres for research based innovation (CRI)• A long-term binding partnership

between research institutions and companies actively engaged in research with the companies in the driving seat

• TTOs• Need for assistance in taking research

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Thank you very much!

Kristine Kopperud Timberlidkristine.timberlid@innovationnorway.no

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