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SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Culturally grounded tourism and local food in rural development

Cultural activities and heritage, rural tourism and small-scale food production (CULTOURFOOD) are three fragmented sectors or industries with many actors and little coordination. In spite of increasing economic and social importance and political awarenes s, those industries have separate sector ...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

DualPET-MR

The main objective for this project is to develop dual-modality PET-MR for molecular biology and medicine which will allow for the combined and simultaneous use of positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance (MR). In such a combined machine the PET provides information from molecula...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Integrated Semantic Access in Situated Operations

The IS_A project deals with complex mobile operations in the construction and petroleum industries. With the growing availability of wireless networks and sophisticated mobile devices, it is now possible to provide online access to vast amounts of informa tion independently of location and time. ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Proposal for a National consortium in Fish Genomics - FishGen

The present proposal describes the establishment of a National Consortium in fish genomics (FishGen). The main partners in the FishGen are; Institute of Marine Research (IMR), University of Bergen (UoB), National institute of nutrition and seafood researc h (NIFES), University of Tromsø (UiTø), N...

Awarded: NOK 14.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Barriers to entry, internationalisation and technology (BITE)

According to technology-based perspectives, innovation and technology flows are the fundamental determinants of development and growth. According to new trade theory and the economic geography approach, however, industrial development is to a larger exten t shaped by market forces. The point of d...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Interna.trade regulating organisations and Sout-East Asian regionalisation of trade agreements. Implications for Norwegian seafood industry

The study focuses on two overall questions: 1) What are the main trends of development of the WTO and regional trade organisations? and 2) What are the consequences for the Norwegian seafood industry? The region of South-East Asia is of strategic interes t to the Norwegian seafood industry, both...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Agriculture and Fisheries Policies between International Regimes on Trade and the Environment

This project examines how international obligations emanating from environmental and trade regimes, and the interaction between them, affect selected aspects of Norwegian domestic and foreign policy making on agriculture and fisheries and Norwegian positi ons in WTO negotiations in those two sect...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Saging av tynnere solcellewafer med tynnere tråd

REC ScanWafer er verdens største og ledende produsent av trådsagede solcellewafere. Dagens wafere produseres ved å sage opp blokker av solcellesilisium i 200 µm tynne skiver (wafer). Sageprosessen gjennomføres i en trådsag som bruker 160 µm tynn ståltråd kombinert med en sagevæske (slurry). T...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Energy-effective production of mechanical pulp by targeted treatment of extractives and selective fibre wall weakening

The basic idea of this project is to develop and support mill scale implementation of technology for achieving minimum 10% reduction in energy consumption for production of mechanical pulp while maintaining pulp quality and avoiding negative environmental impacts. A 10% reduction in energy consu...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Contracts as a tool for improving efficiency in the forestry-wood chain

We have divided the research task into two Work Packages (WPs). In WP1 we conduct surveys in order to describe instruments used, and in WP2 we combine theory with information obtained from WP1 and with experience from comparable markets, in order to come up with improved instruments. Co-ordinatio...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Spectrum Efficient Communication for Future Aeronautical Services

This project is motivated by the fact that by 2025, the air traffic in Europe is expected to be 2.4 times larger in volume than today (with important local variations). Diversity in types of airspace users (e.g., low-cost airlines, general and business av iation, and unmanned aerial vehicles) is ...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

USE OF SNP-CHIPS AND SELECTIVE DNA POOLING FOR IDENTIFYING DISEASE RESISTANCE MARKERS IN ATLANTIC SALMON

The main objective of this project is to find molecular markers that can be implemented in a marker assisted selection program (MAS) to increase genetic resistance to infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) in the Norwegian Atlantic salmon breeding program. MAS h as a great potential to increase the rate...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Property, Possession and Conflict in Re/Building Settlement

In a world in which there is an increasing need for re/settle people torn apart by conflict, it is critical to create the basis for durable development, by providing a sustainable physical settlements and a socially and economically viable community. The challenges involved with this situation ...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2017

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

New bath smelting process for production of silicomanganese alloys using waste materials

The bearing idea of the proposed project is to develop a new bath smelting process for production of SiMn alloy, which will significantly utilise and reduce post-plant deposited waste materials, in addition to reducing energy consumption and in-plant mate rials handling and storage. The project...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Dataassistert verktøy for bærekraftig produktinformasjon (Data assisted tool for sustainability product information)

Produksjonsbedrifter som opererer i et globalt marked blir stilt overfor stadig økende krav til dokumentasjon av prestasjoner og prosesser knyttet til produkter. Det finnes i dag relativt gode og standardiserte verktøy knyttet til ytre miljø (LCA og EPI), men tilsvarende er langt dårligere utvik...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Møre og Romsdal

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Remelting and inclusion refining of aluminium

Remelting and Inclusion Refining of Aluminium Remelting of post-consumed and process aluminium scrap reveals new challenges both on the environmental, metal yield and metal quality side. This topic has become very relevant due to the continuously increas ing energy prices in Europe. The proposed...

Awarded: NOK 15.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Fotokjemisk internalisering for cellegiftterapi av kreft

PCI Biotech AS utvikler en patentert teknologi for levering av legemidler, kalt fotokjemisk internalisering (forkortet PCI). Sentralt i denne teknologien står en patentert kjemisk forbindelse, kalt TPCS2a, som PCI Biotech utvikler for utprøving i pasiente r i innledende kliniske studier i kombina...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Demanding Polyolefin Applications

Polyolefines (POs) is the most used group of polymers and will continue to be so for many decades, because of their versatility, low price, good processability, and ease of recycling. Norway has a strong domestic market pull for new innovative PO products within demanding areas, such as the oil ...

Awarded: NOK 16.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

MObile Fixed COnvergence in Multiaccess Environment

The main goal is to provide unified user management and service continuity for an IP Multimedia System deployed on a fixed mobile convergent multi access environment. In the effort to realize the vision of fixed mobile convergence, the telecom operators f ound very compelling to extend the usage ...

Awarded: NOK 13.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Mobilizing social capital in ICT-based global organizations

The MOSCITO project will generate new empirical insights and accumulate evidence in the form of practical organizational knowledge as to how organizations operating on an international scene can use specific communication technologies to develop, maintain , combine and exploit social capital. The...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Integrated IP-based Services for smart Home environment (IS-Home)

The project is a collaboration between Lyse Tele, the Italian company Telsey and the University of Stavanger. The main goal of the consortium is, as a pioneer in the market, to build a business infrastructure using an innovative autonomic computing middle ware platform for easy installation, conf...

Awarded: NOK 11.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Rogaland

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Massive multi-type 3D datasets in parallel Environments

Most existing software for handling of 3D data-sets is based on historic levels of computer performance, and programmed according to a sequential paradigm. Low cost parallel processing hardware is now available due to the recent introduction of multi-core CPUs and programmable graphics cards. Th...

Awarded: NOK 10.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

National resources for genomics, functional genomics and health research in Atlantic salmon and Atlantic cod. WP 3 (tidl del av177030)

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Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Detection, characterization and differentiation of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) strains in farmed Atlantic salmon

IPN outbreaks are seen both in the freshwater and seawater phase of the production, resulting in severe annual losses, and has emerged as a severe threat to the economy of the fish-farming industry. According to recent estimates, the yearly losses due to IPN in Norway are NOK 1 billion. This pro...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Møre og Romsdal

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Styring av forurensninger i metallurgisk framstilt solcelle silisium

For et solcellemarked i ekstrem vekst, utvikler Elkem Solar AS en metallurgisk prosess for framstilling av Si feedstock materialer. Mens Elkems materialer allerede har vist seg å være av tilstrekkelig kvalitet for å tilfredsstile dagens krav, forventes st rengere krav i framtiden. Elkems material...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Agder

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Emerging patterns of East - West migration in Europe: New patterns of mobility in a changing political landscape

Prosjektet har resultert i tre doktorgrader. Jon Horgen Friberg forsvarte sin doktorgrad i 2013. Han tar for seg arbeidsmigrasjon mellom Polen og Norge, med fokus på drivkreftene for migrasjon og ulike mekanismer som bidrar til inkorporering og/eller nye former for sosial ulikhet og marginaliser...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2015

Location: Oslo

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Innovation in small scale rural tourism: How to organise and co-operate for improvement and expansion?

The main objective of this project is to amend knowledge about how small scale rural tourism can expand through innovation and improved organisation. Research questions: 1: Identify how innovation is understood and interpreted among small scale rural tourism firms? What kind of innovation occ...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Recreational consumption as a market for farm based food and tourism businesses

Increasing leisure time increases the importance of leisure related consumption as compared to everyday consumption. Recreational consumption may therefore represent a potentially important market for developing small scale farm-based rural businesses. Lo cal attachment through relatives or secon...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Teknologi for spesialtilpasset videoovervåkning

Bruken av overvåkningsteknologi er økende i vårt samfunn, for å beskytte og sikre offentlige og privat bygninger, arbeidsplasser (buss, bensinstasjon, taxi), anlegg (tunneler, maskiner) og gjenstander mot ulykker, skadeverk, kriminalitet og terrorhandling er. Ved å utvikle mer intelligente videoo...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Akershus

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Slankere støpte komponenter til fremtidens vindmøller

Vindenergi er en av de hurtigst voksende energisektorer i verden og en av de viktigste utfordringene for vindmølleprodusenter er å utvikle større og mer effektive vindmøller. Støpegods brukes i dag til sentrale deler av en vindmøllekonstruksjon, f.eks det enorme navet som typisk kan veie 25 tonn...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland