ANALYSIS • NORDIC INNOVATION Norwegian connectivity
The following is an edited version of an article written by Stuart Brewer of Beacon Communications.
Services to help Norwegian businesses make greater use of digitalisation, and create new business models, methods of production and customer interfaces are included in the Digital Norway Centre designed to achieve a step change across the Norwegian commercial sector.
Some of the leading corporate and academic names in Norway are taking part, including Telenor, DNB, Statoil, Aker, DNV GL, Kongsberg, Wilhelmsen, Schibsted, Ruter, Jotun, NTNU and SINTEF.
‘Digitalisation creates great opportunities for growth and innovation,’ says Walter Qvam, chairman of Digital Norway and a driving force behind the initiative. ‘To succeed with digitalisation it is necessary to share knowledge and experiences between companies and cutting edge professionals. Norwegian businesses need guidance, arenas for cooperation and facilities to create new business
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models, methods of production, customer interfaces and services.’
The Digital Norway Centre’s initial services include establishment of a disruption lab, digital hub and digital maturity index. Oil and maritime will be among the main sectors of focus, along with smart power, food production and Norway’s future transport systems.
Norwegian shipowners are also embracing digitalisation. Wilhelmsen, for example, has initiated a new Digital Solutions team to help transform the company’s way of doing business, while Torvald Klaveness is working to fulfil its ambition to become the leading digital bulk operator. Kongsberg Group has
established Kongsberg Digital and the new Kognifai digital platform, while DNV GL has also launched an industrywide platform called Veracity to facilitate connections between different maritime industry players, domain experts and data scientists (see also separate articles).
In fact, Norway has the fastest growing ecosystem of any Nordic country when it comes to early stage investment in new businesses, according to Innovation Norway, which says that 78 private investments totalling $196.3m were made in 2016, a increase of 160% in number and 130% in the amount of capital over 2015. Innovation Norway itself provides seed funding for many new ventures, under initiatives such as StartupLab.
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Seatrade Maritime Review • Quarterly Issue 2 • June 2017
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