Building Nordic Strength Through More Open R&D Funding – Study 3

OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy: Norway 2008

“…To the extent that countries operate with a narrow "innovation system map" focused on science and technology and the formal R&D system, they are likely to be guided into making policy choices that optimise the formal part of the system at the expense of the whole. During the current decade, a broader perspective on innovation systems is underpinning attempts by governments to develop holistic innovation and research policies, as has certainly been attempted in the Nordic countries (Arnold et al, 2006) and strongly advocated in the UK (NESTA, 2006).…”