Oslo Innovation Week

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Industry trends

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Glossary

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Innovation cluster

A regional grouping of companies, research institutes and public bodies in one sector - for example Norwegian ocean, maritime or energy clusters - that shares test facilities, funding programmes and international marketing. Cluster organisations are frequent hosts of Oslo Innovation Week sessions.

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Scale-up

A company past product-market fit that is growing revenue and headcount fast, typically beyond a first institutional round. Scale-ups are a core audience at the week because they need corporate customers, pilot sites and senior hires rather than seed advice.

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Proof of concept (PoC)

A short, bounded trial that shows a technology works in a real customer environment. At Oslo Innovation Week a PoC is usually the immediate ask from corporates and public agencies evaluating a startup after a session.

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Pilot project

A paid or co-funded deployment of a solution at limited scale before full rollout. Norwegian energy, maritime and health operators often use the week to line up pilot partners and test sites.

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Open innovation

A model where an established company publishes a problem or challenge and works with external startups, researchers or suppliers on the solution. Corporates running such challenges use Oslo Innovation Week to meet candidate partners.

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Corporate venturing and CVC

A corporate investing in or incubating external startups through a venture unit or dedicated fund. Corporate venture teams attend the week to source deals and to align investments with their own decarbonisation or digital roadmaps.

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Blue economy and ocean tech

Commercial activity linked to the sea: ocean data and monitoring, autonomous and remotely operated vessels, aquaculture technology, marine sensors and offshore wind service operations. It is one of the themes Norwegian industry brings to the week.

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Energy transition

The shift of power, industry and transport onto low-carbon sources - offshore wind, hydrogen, batteries and grid flexibility, carbon capture and industrial decarbonisation. It overlaps heavily with Norway's offshore and process-industry base.

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Circular economy

Designing products and industrial flows so materials are reused rather than discarded: recycling technology, industrial symbiosis, battery and metal recovery, and low-carbon construction materials.

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Impact investing

Investment made with an explicit intent to generate measurable environmental or social outcomes alongside financial return. Nordic impact funds and family offices use the week for deal sourcing and co-investment talks.

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Soft funding

Non-dilutive public support such as grants, innovation loans and tax incentives for R&D. For Norwegian and visiting startups it is often the first funding conversation of the week, ahead of equity.

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Testbed and living lab

A real-world environment - a harbour, hospital ward, grid segment or city district - where prototypes are tested with users. Access to a Norwegian testbed is a common reason startups host or attend sessions.

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Spin-off and spin-out

A company formed to commercialise research or an internal corporate project. University spin-offs and research institutes use the week to find co-founders, capital and first industrial customers.