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Developing an Innovation Park at
University of Nordland Campus
- Senior Adviser Per Gaute Pettersen: +47 97724555 / [email protected]
- Senior Adviser Lotte Grepp Knutsen: +47 90768540 / [email protected]
Mission and objectives
• Mission: To contribute to knowledge based value creation and business
development.
• Objective: The realisation of an Innovation Park on Campus, consisting of:
– Innovation activity, carried out by a company dedicated to create clusters –
both within and around the Innovation park, carry out innovation and
commercialization activities, project initiation, -development and
administration within the affiliated area of the university.
– Building/premises on campus that enables collocation of research/outreach
activities at the university, with business and public players that benefit from
working close with research and education.
– The premises itself will be used to create clusters of related activity, as well as
hosting new enterprises (both spin-offs/-outs and existing business from other
regions).
Expectations and potential
• Increased expectations to (and measuring of) universities’ contribution to
regional (and overall) innovation and business development
• Need for more “cross boarder” activity between education, research and
business:
– Acceptance => encouragement => expectation/requirement
– Educating a new generation of researchers who understand both business and
research challenges
• Joint projects and consortiums between research and business
• Joint projects are often based on running clusters/relations, which are also
a source for new ideas, experience, market channels and financing.
• Both linear and systemic innovations
• Former spin-offs/spin-outs become new partners
• Both development and attraction of new business
Support in overall strategies
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High North Strategy - Nordområdemeldingen – “Bodø as
centre for knowledge development regarding business
development and possibilities in the high north”
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Both regional (Nordland fylkeskommune) an local (Bodø
kommune) government’s ambitions for the university’s
role in development and prosperity – increased R&D
and innovation.
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Priority in the university’s strategy. Important for
developing both the university’s and affiliated
institutions’ project portfolio.
The roles of an Innovation Park
• Arena for generating joint projects
– Cluster development
– Connecting arena for researchers, business and public
sector
– Active linkage of project possibilities
– Management/secretariat for large projects
• Collocation of contract research and outreach
activities.
– Science park / project hotel
– Cross faculty centres or priorities
• Precubation, incubation, “greenhouse” and
commercialisation (TTO)
• Meeting-, classrooms and conference centre
• Joint support and infrastructure
• Joint marketing and public relation, credibility
«The innovation machine»
From The Bio Value Report («Bioverdirapporten»)
The Innovation company
• Project development
– Mobilize, generate and facilitate R&D projects or consortiums
with business, research, education and public partners
• Cluster development
– Develop prioritised fields both within and outside the premises.
Attract new partners to campus.
• Commercialization
– Identify and develop knowledge based business ideas and
helping them through to realisation
• Joint service and support
• Dialogue with Kunnskapsparken Bodø about their possible
role as the main player.
The university’s research profile as a
base
• Welfare
• Innovation and entrepreneurship
• Blue growth
The profile: Four priorities
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Maritime/petro-maritime sector
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Marine sector/bio economy
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Innovation centre for aquaculture and bio economy
Host for national and international R&D
R&D/innovation on support activities or adjacent fields
(health, feed, other species, equipment)
Public/government stakeholders
Technology/ICT
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Bodø Maritime Campus
Centre for simulation, safety and preparedness
R&D, education, courses
Bachelor education (IT)
Relevance to welfare innovation, education tech,
simulation tech, SAR, enterprise modelling, innovation
processes, business ideas etc.
High North knowledge
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Tourism, logistics, energy, mineral, industry, etc.
Business development and conditions
Infrastructure
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The building depends on the content which again depend on the building
Physical premises on campus: 5-10.000 m2,
with possibility for further development
The premises are important for:
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Cluster development
Creating attention
Meeting point / arena for cooperation and
collocation
Attracting new business /existing companies to
campus
On campus incubator
Possible location on private ground nearby
the university - conclusion to be made
within this year
Private investors together with SIVA.