The four organisations that formed the new organisation were The Norwegian Tourist Board, The Norwegian Trade Council, The Norwegian Industrial and Regional Development Fund, SND and the Government Consultative Office for Inventors, SVO.

Innovation Norway promotes nationwide industrial development profitable to both the business economy and Norways national economy, and helps release the potential of different districts and regions by contributing towards innovation, internationalisation and promotion.

The new state owned company employs more than 700 people. Innovation Norway has offices in all the Norwegian counties and in more than 30 countries world wide. The head office is located in Oslo.

Our core group of clients are Norwegian companies, predominantly SMEs. As a consequence the information on Innovation Norway is in Norwegian. In order to obtain information in English about Norway or Norwegian business and industry, please visit one of the English web sites on innovationnorway.com