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F1: Technology and innovation policy formulation, co-ordination, supervision and assessment F2: Performing R&D (basic; pre-competitive; applied)

F3: Financing R&D (support to non-business institutions and organisations undertaking research; support of special areas of research independent from the institution or firm where it is undertaken)

F4: Promotion of human resource development and mobility

F5: Technology diffusion (improve the adoptation and adaptation of specific technologies; improve the general technology receptor capacity of firms; build the innovation capacity of firms)

F6: Promotion of technological entrepreneurship (financing technology-based firms, eg. Venture capital) The Norwegian system of innovation

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General policy frameworkTechnology and innovation policy formulation; financing, co-ordination, supervision and assessment Parliament

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IFE – Institutt for Energiteknikk [Institute for Energy Technology]

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