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• 2012-02-13Nordic-European joint response to EU-regulations

  The Nordic-European Public Investor Initiative has responded to the European Commission’s consultation on the draft Structural Fund Regulations for the 2014-2020 Programming Period. A joint written memorandum has been delivered to DG Regio och DG Research & Innovation within the European Commission.

• 2012-02-10Mission: Making the marine sector more innovative

  Natural resources alone are not sufficient to secure competitiveness and economic prosperity, said the Norwegian State Secretary Kristine Gramstad when she opened the first Nordic Marine Innovation conference in Oslo.

• 2012-02-02Future goals for the Nordic building sector defined in Copenhagen

  A free zone for testing current building regulations and developing new solutions, a mandatory environmental declaration scheme for building materials, sharing of best practice cases across borders and financial advantages for investing in energy efficient solutions. These are some of the suggestions to what could accelerate the competitiveness of the Nordic building sector.

• 2012-01-29Undersøkelse av vekstvilkår i akademikeres virksomheter

  Bedre muligheter for deltidsentreprenører er et av tiltak som foreslås på bakgrunn av et felles nordisk forskningsprosjekt om entreprenørskap blant akademikere.

• 2012-01-26State Secretary's opening speech at the Nordic Marine conference

  The Norwegian State Secretary Kristine Gramstad opened the first Nordic Marine Innovation conference in Oslo 25th of January.

• 2012-01-23How can the public sector become more innovative?

  - A future success criteria for public sector organizations will not be how to increase their budget, but how to decrease it and in the same time be able to provide a professionel welfare service level, said Margrethe Vestager, Danish Minister for Economics and Internal Affairs at a conference on how to make the public sector more innovative.

• 2012-01-20Green Business Models: The future of eco-innovation

  The role of business models in green transformation was discussed at a workshop hosted by FORA and arranged by OECD, the European Commission and Nordic Innovation.

• 2012-01-19How can the Nordic countries diagnose growth challenges and develop better entrepreneurship policy?

  How can we improve our analytical policy tools in order to achieve a deeper insight into how entrepreneurs contribute to job creation and growth as well as the barriers to growth? This topic was intensely discussed by Nordic and international policy makers and analysts in Copenhagen on 19-20 January.

• 2012-01-13Miljö och små företag i fokus hos Tekes

  Med ett nytt år och en ny, något stramare, budget tar den finländska innovationsaktören Tekes i bruk en ny strategi, som bland annat betyder större satsningar på små och medelstora företag. Hållbarhet är ett av nyckelorden.

• 2012-01-03Nordiccs fanger Nordens CO2

  Det nyetablerte nordiske kompetansesenter for CO2-fangst og -lagring (CCS), Nordiccs, skal berede grunnen for realiseringen av små og store CCS-anlegg i Norden.