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.

As of october 2008, there are 22 regional clusters (projects) within the programme. To read more about the different projects, please click here Projects or click on Projects in the menu.