Scaling Lab combines strategic case development with international syndication of capital, technology, market access and competence to accelerate growth. Our role is to design the equity story, align interests, structure partnerships and mobilize the resources needed to accelerate value creation, reduce execution risk and maximize the long-term value of the case.
Backed by a decade of action research and strategic case development with MIT, Tsinghua University, and Israel's innovation ecosystem, we are the definitive partner for scaling industrial B2B technology. Our methodology is already proven by 100+ scale-ups.
Norway has thousands of early-stage companies, around 100,000 people engaged in innovation and R&D, and close to NOK 100 billion invested annually. Yet only a small fraction of these companies ever make the transition from early-stage venture to meaningful scale.
The challenge is not a lack of ideas, talent or capital. It is systemic. The eco-system is designed to support ideas and bring them to a customer. Far less is designed to organise industry, capital, technology and research around problems looking for a solution.
Scaling Lab exists to close that gap — starting with the strategic problems inside industrial systems, building the company, its industrial position and role, and mobilising the resources needed to solve it and capture the resulting value.
Read our research →Every innovation system ultimately follows one of two logics. Norway — like most Western economies — has built a supply driven system. The countries that consistently scale industrial technology fastest have built a demand driven system.
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 →Building an industrial technology company? Exploring international growth, strategic partnerships, or looking to unlock new capital or market opportunities? Let's talk about how we can accelerate your next stage of growth.
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