Arrangement

The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs has the pleasure of inviting you to a workshop:

Norway and EU Liberalization: Innovation and Policy in the Norwegian Defence Industry
During this workshop researchers will present their findings on how the Norwegian defense industry is changing. This is the final workshop related to the INNDEF project, investigating innovation in the Norwegian defense industry. The project is a collaboration between NUPI, the Norwegian Defence Research Establishmen (FFI) and the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU), and it is financed by the Norwegian Research Council's FORFI programme.

Program 9.30-15

• The export boom of Norwegian defence products: trends and determinantsFulvio Castellacci, NUPI
• Do defence products create knowledge spillovers to civilian sectors? Empirical evidence for NorwaySimen Gangnæs Enger, University of Oslo and NUPI
• Firms’ reaction to liberalization: Comparing Norway and SwedenArne Fevolden, NIFU
• Modelling EU liberalization and defence companies’ changing strategiesFulvio Castellacci, NUPI

12-13.30 Lunch
 

• Defence materiel acquisition policy: the Swedish caseMartin Lundmark, Luleå University of Technology
• The relationships between research, the Ministry of defence and the industryVidar Andersen, FFI
• CommentRepresentative from the Ministry of Defence (to be announced)

A more detailed program can be found here.