This document outlines Norway's national strategy for ICT research and development. It discusses prioritizing areas where Norway has world-class research, areas important to Norwegian businesses, and areas that address societal challenges. It focuses on strengthening ties between research and sectors, establishing centers of excellence, and increasing commercialization of publicly funded research. The strategy also emphasizes increasing Norway's competency in cyber security, digitizing and innovating the public sector, and applying ICT to challenges in health and care. Overall, the document provides Norway's strategic plan to prioritize and fund impactful ICT research.

1. National strategy
IKT research and development

3. Facts and figures
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7. What is ICT R&D?
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9. How do we prioritise?
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10. 1) Areas where we have world-class research
2) Areas that are important to Norwegian
businesses
3) Areas that address important societal
challenges

11. Quality
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12. Why?

13. How?
• Basic ICT R&D
• Stronger ties between sectors and research
topics
• Centres of excellence
• Knowledge and competence
• International work

14. Business development and value creation
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15. Why?

16. How?
• Business ph.d.
• More tax incentives for R&D
• Increased commercialisation in publicly
funded R&D
• Venture capital

17. Societal challenges
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18. Cyber security
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19. Why?
• Area where we need to have national
competency
• ICT is increasingly important to society
• The numbers of threats are increasing

20. Public sector and national infrastructure
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21. Why?
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Digitisation and public secor reform
Little knowledge about use and effect
Need for innovation in the public sector
Interface between ICT and law

22. Health and care
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23. What?
• ICT in medical research
• Welfare technology

24. What now?
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25. • New program(s) in NRC
• Horizon 2020 and a Norwegian strategy for
European research
• Public sector Ph.d. in ICT
• Gap ICT competence supply and demand

26. Questions?