A national, non-profit centre for scaling Norwegian industrial B2B technology companies — built on a decade of applied research with MIT, Tsinghua University and Israel's innovation ecosystem, and tested with nearly 100 Norwegian scale-ups.
Norway is approaching 4,000 early-stage companies, with roughly 100,000 people engaged in innovation and R&D and close to NOK 100 billion allocated to it every year. Yet fewer than 1% of these companies ever scale beyond a handful of employees.
The system is well-funded and well-intentioned — but it is built to support ideas on their way to a customer, rather than to organise industry, capital and research around problems that already have one. Scaling Lab exists to close that gap.
Read our research →Every innovation system rests on one of two logics. Norway — like most Western economies — has built the first. The countries that scale industrial technology fastest have built the second.
Since 2016 we have partnered with MIT's Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship, studied how Tsinghua University scales Chinese industrial value chains, and examined Israel's Yozma model and Technion ecosystem — testing every lesson with Norwegian companies.
From subsea and maritime technology in Bergen and Stavanger, to energy and process industry around Trondheim, to advanced manufacturing and digital infrastructure in Oslo — our accelerator programmes have worked alongside company builders across the country.
View the full portfolio →A discussion paper drawing on ten years of work with Norwegian industrial technology companies, and a comparative study of the US, China, Israel and Sweden — setting out how Norway could double its innovation output at half the resource cost.
Read the paper →Talk to us about our accelerator programmes, industrial orchestration advisory, or our research on Norwegian industrial policy.
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