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Objectives:
Primary objective:
In keeping with its scope, the BIA programme seeks to promote the greatest possible value creation in Norwegian trade and industry through research-based innovation in companies and the R&D groups with which they cooperate. To achieve this objective, the activities of the programme will be focused on producing the following main outcomes:
• More research-based innovation in trade and industry;
• A higher level of aspiration and expertise in the companies’ own R&D activity;
• Higher quality in the national R&D groups used to generate innovation in trade and industry.
Secondary objectives
• Promote new or greatly improved processes, products, services and business models;
• Encourage greater cooperation between companies and R&D institutions as well as among companies, both nationally and internationally;
• Attract new contractual partners, participants and collaborators within projects and consortia;
• Increase awareness among companies about R&D as a strategic tool;
• Develop new, innovation-oriented R&D expertise in trade and industry;
• Develop new expertise relevant to trade and industry within the R&D institutions.
The BIA programme
The BIA programme provides funding for the best research-based innovation projects across a broad spectrum of Norwegian trade and industry. The programme’s focus ensures that funding is distributed in an open competitive arena and promotes learning across different branches of industry and thematic areas. When awarding funding, emphasis is placed on the degree to which the projects entail innovation, the quality of the research, the potential to generate financial profit, and other benefits to society. It is expected that funding from the Research Council will trigger further R&D investments within the company and that the project will be carried out in cooperation between partners that supplement one another’s expertise. The BIA programme complements the Research Council’s other industry-oriented funding instruments and provides support to projects that cannot be realised under the SkatteFUNN tax deduction scheme or other activities under the Research Council.
The BIA programme provides funding to the best projects regardless of branch of industry, with the exception of those areas covered by the thematically oriented programmes under the Research Council. Grant proposals covered under thematically oriented programmes will be referred to the relevant programme or rejected. Examples of sectors for which there is no thematically oriented programme are the building and construction sector, large segments of the ICT sector, the process industry sector, the manufacturing sector, the biomedical and industry-oriented biotechnology sector, and large segments of the service sector, including the trade in goods. For more information about other industry-oriented funding initiatives administered by the Research Council, please see: http://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Research_areas/1252498540762
The BIA programme provides funding for research that will result in new products, processes and services in or across a variety of sectors. Thematic areas for the projects may include, for example, new business models and/or management strategies, preferably in combination with technology for a more sustainable business sector that assumes broader social responsibility. Projects under the BIA programme may be rooted in key social challenges – such as those related to health, welfare and care; sustainable social development in an age of increasing urbanisation with increasingly stringent requirements being imposed on buildings and infrastructures and new challenges related to societal security; or sustainable industrial development in the areas of energy, the environment and natural resource management. All projects must promote the development of a competitive Norwegian business sector.
This programme/activity normally accepts grant applications from:
•Innovation Projects for the Industrial Sector: Companies that collaborate with other companies and/or R&D groups at higher education institutions and/or independent research institutes.
•Knowledge-building Projects for Industry: R&D groups (higher education institutions and/or independent research institutes) with an internationally competitive competency base and extensive involvement in industry-oriented projects.
Duration:
Open-ended since 2006.
Overall budget:
The total budget for 2012 is approximately NOK 390 million. The budget for 2013 is expected to be at the same level
See also
Attachments
- BIA Programme Plan (PDF-147.4 KB)
- BIA Engelsk utlysning 2013 (PDF-123.4 KB)
Contact
- Astrid B. Brenna Special Adviser 22 03 73 11 ab@forskningsradet.no
- Tron Espeli Special Adviser 22 03 73 13 te@forskningsradet.no
- Hanne Merete Hanson Adviser 22 03 75 54 hmh@forskningsradet.no
- Tor Einar Johnsen Senior Adviser 22 03 75 44 tej@forskningsradet.no
- Karen Marie Måseide Hovland Senior Executive Officer 22 03 75 64 kmm@forskningsradet.no
- Harald Reed 92 83 99 85 hre@forskningsradet.no
- Sven Samuelsen Special Adviser 22 03 74 43 ssa@forskningsradet.no
- Hjalmar Sigurdsson hjs@forskningsradet.no
- Jan Rasmus Sulebak Special Adviser 93 05 93 50 jrs@forskningsradet.no
- Lise Våland Sund Senior Adviser lvs@forskningsradet.no
- Nicoline Waaler Werner Executive Officer 22 03 75 89 nww@forskningsradet.no
- Lars Petter Korsnes Senior Adviser lpk@forskningsradet.no
- Katrine Rese Shadidi Senior Adviser 22 03 74 25 krs@forskningsradet.no
- Per Lyder Pedersen Senior Adviser 22 03 75 90 plp@forskningsradet.no
