Study title

The present follow-up survey is based on interviews with 1,000 companies distributed across 23 different services and programmes. The 23 services and programs are divided into four main groups, where group 1 is Loans, group 2 is Grants and group 3 is Programs that offer both financing, advice and networking, while group 4 is Scholarships (Founder and Incubator stipends). It is important to emphasize that Innovation Norway provides advice related to all its services and programs, but there are therefore some services and programs that have advice as part of the program content itself - not just advice related to the case management itself. The services and programs that are not included in the survey account for approximately NOK 600 million. in the scope of commitments and is mainly linked to profiling and internationalisation. In addition, there are a number of network projects that have been omitted from the survey (for example, neither the Arena nor the NCE program is included). The reason why these programs and services are kept out is primarily that individual companies cannot identify themselves as recipients of commitments or because the scope of commitments is so small that results and effects are not expected to be measurable. It is important to be aware that many of Innovation Norway's projects support Norwegian agriculture, which is not primarily focused on innovation. Innovation Norway was established on 1 January 2004.