What Next:ICT Research and Innovation in Norway

The VERDIKT Conference 2013

Anne Kjersti FahlvikExecutive Director, Division for Innovation

Summing Up: Demonstration of active R&I in the front

over a wide field on and about ICT and ICT use

ICT R&I in Norway today and tomorrow

Fordelt pr. sektor: Growth in industry-driven R&I

ICT R&I expanding into many areas and into

growing social challenges

Public sector-initiated R&I show promising tendency

The RCN evaluation report asks:

Why underinvestment in ICT R&D?

Our advice: Growth, capasity building, societal

challenges and innovation in all sectors

ICT in SkatteFUNN

Evaluation of VERDIKT

Preliminary results

VERDIKT did clearly take on high ambitions over a wide scope, but:

Some contribution to quality level, good contribution on PhD

and Post Doc

No appearent strategic coordination with the EU-FP

However:

Participating companies are reporting positive effects, specificly on

mobility of competence in their direction

The stimulation of international R&I cooperation works well

Valuable input to carefully consider in a new initiative

National research policy priorities

ICT is a main priority and a key issue in major thematic priorities

Primary efforts

Strategic ICT focus

Secondary efforts

Including ICT-R&I in

thematic and structural

priorities

ICT R&D strategy and RCN’s plan

ICT-R&I to strengthen Norway's

position in front

ICT-R&I to stimulate value creation in

private and public sectors

ICT-R&I to address societal challenges:

Information safety

Infrastructure and public sector efficiency

Health and care

ICT R&I in Horizon 2020

Excellent science

ERC, FET, Marie Curie, eInfrastructures

Industrial leadership

ICT programme

Societal challenges

ICT is key for solving societal challenges

Interdisciplinary projects

Opportunities for ICT in all areas Major funding

opportunities

First calls to be published December 11th 2013

RCNs ambitions

A dynamic, flexible and strategic R&D approach

Tentative: First call June 2014

The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high

and we miss it, but we aim too low and reach it.

Michelangelo

Testing newsolutions to complex

problem

For further contact:

afm@forskningsradet.no

olr@forskningsradet.no

Thank you for your attention!