Innovation Forum Norway

Innovation Forum Norway is a meeting place for the best innovation managers and agents of change that focuses on increasing the pace of innovation and success rate.

Members come from both public sector and private enterprise, and covers everything from Statoil, Statkraft and Telenor with vast resources, to small innovative startup environments. The common denominator is that we believe the greatest waste of our time is the dreams and ideas that never see the light of day.

The reality is unfortunately that even if the value of successful innovation has never been greater,  most of the Norwegian operations struggle with managing innovation in a structured way. Far more common is still more or less random improvements to the product of effort and inspired ways to drive innovation.

The forum is characterized by:

• A common belief that even good companies have great benefits to be gained from implementing a more streamlined process of innovation, both in terms of time, risk reduction and profit optimization.
• A common conviction that the winners of the future will be those who bet on an open innovation model based on an innovation process that takes ideas and input from the best, regardless of industry and point of view.
• A common basic attitude  that innovation will develop in a culture that thrives on change, uncertainty, new elements, complexity and scenario thinking and can be seen as a muscle - the results come with regular exercise, good input from the best players and within clear limits .
• A common realization that most businesses are sitting on a goldmine of unused ideas that the intelligent use can be used to create new business opportunities.

The membership is "by Invitation only" and is operated on a nonprofit basis