As you can see, there is a great turnover of enterprises in Norway. This situation, very briefly described, imply that the work for innovation and development of enterprises have to be given high priority in future policies. To succeed, we need to create a culture and attitudes favourable to entrepreneurs. Without any doubt innovation is one of the most serious challenges in Norwegian industries. Innovation includes the fine art of creating new games and new rules of the games, not just in improving old ones.
Norwegian enterprises invest less in innovation than companies in our competing countries.
The rate of innovative enterprises in Norway is quite lower than the OECD average. The Swedish enterprise is, as an example, twice as innovative as the Norwegian enterprise. Without any doubt, In Norway, we do not invest enough in innovation, and lack of commercial innovation is the result. Science Parks and the regional innovation system. I will now turn to national and regional innovation systems in Norway.