STRATINC Interreg III C: Murcia

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STRATINC Interreg III C Murcia
The Oslo Experience

• Knut Halvorsen
• Managing director
• Oslo Teknopol IKS
• 13 th October 2005

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Oslo Teknopol - organisation

• Owned by Oslo and County of Akershus
• 14 employees (social sciences)
• Budget of 2 mill. Euros
• Theoretical approach Clusters
• Strategy Technopole
• Methodology Governance

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Clusters, interfaces and facilitators
Energy environmental technology
Maritime
Information communication technology
Culture
Life science
TTO Innovation companies Innovation
networks Reasearch Parks incubators
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Life Science in the Oslo region key players
Symbols Universities/higher education
insitutions 3 University hospitals 5
Resarch instiutions including Centres of
Excellence 10 Science Parks 2 Commercial
inst 3 Companies 1 157 Regional networks 3
Norwegian Bioindustry Association
Medcoast Scandinavia Oslo/Göteborg
Medicon Valley Stockholm/Copenhagen
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Cluster governance in Oslo (Life Science)

• Challenges
• Fragmented,
• Lack of common vision,
• Lack of seed capital,
• Lack of cooperation,
• Lack of trust,
• Information overload,
• Zero sum game situations
• Strategy
• PSIP (www.scandinavianlifescience.org),
• Forsight (Through 04/05 With Research Council),
  
• OT approach (making omelet).