The Arena Programme

Arena is a national programme for long term development of regional business clusters. The programme offers both advisory and financial support.

The objective is to strengthen the clusters innovative ability through a stronger and more dynamic interaction between the industry, R&D institutions, universities and the public sector. The interaction is to be long-term, goal-oriented and focused on innovative collaboration, international awareness, access to knowledge and new business.

Arena is a national programme owned by Innovation Norway, SIVA and the Research Council of Norway.