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INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization

Tildelt: kr 0,15 mill.

Governments around the world are increasing their emphasis on all types of innovation. While the U.S. government has focused on the promotion of innovation and technology commercialization for more than three decades, European countries including Norway a re now following suit. Governments introduce innovation policies, and various public support mechanisms which are aimed directly at aiding innovative firms. The U.S. government and its agencies have a long history of stimulating innovation and commercia lization of new technologies, and have in effect created a culture for innovation and technology commercialization from which we have much to learn. It is however, not unimportant what part of the vast American economy we study. Doloreux (2003) diff erentiates between peripheral and central regions, arguing that the vast majority of innovation and commercialization studies have been performed using data from Silicon Valley, Route 128, and similar, high-profile regions, although ?lessons learned from these regions are seldom applicable elsewhere.? It would therefore be fruitful to build relationships with regions that at least share some important features with the Norwegian economy. - Overland Park in Kansas, U.S., with a population of 150.000 and a county population of 450.000 (University of Kansas). - Austin, Texas with about 650.000 people in the city and 1.2 million in the greater metropolitan area (University of Texas). Kansas is perhaps most similar to Norwegian regions in size and g rowth, and is a national leader in the production of bio-fuels and bio-mass related industries. Austin, on the other hand is recognized as an innovation and economically successful region, and is a leader in Information and Communication Technology indus tries in the U.S. There is thus a nice fit between the proposed regions, BILAT and NTNU. We will seek to establish long-term reciprocal agreements with these universities to facilitate researcher mobility.

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