Section for Research and Innovation Instruments

This section is responsible for managing and developing comprehensive and efficient government measures for the starting up, R&I and growth in companies. This includes the responsibility for the ministry's management of and grants to Innovation Norway, the Research Council of Norway, Investinor, Siva, Design and Architecture Norway and Innovative Procurement Program. The section is also responsible for instruments that increase access to capital through InvestEU, the development of entrepreneurship and startup policy and research commercialization . The section is further responsible for IPR policy and the government´s management of the Norwegian Industrial Property Office and the Norwegian Board of Appeal for Industrial Property Rights.