Priority areas

The Ministry has identified priority areas of focus on the basis of its primary objectives, and has ranked these in order of precedence to ensure maximum impact from the Ministry’s endeavours to boost value generation in Norway. The following areas of activity are key parameters in determining the Ministry’s future direction with regard to skills building, resource deployment and measuring tangible results:

To promote regulatory simplification for business
To stimulate more competition for government-involved transactions
To provide a more straightforward and business-friendly public sector by establishing distinct areas of responsibility and thereby influence other ministries
To adopt an all-inclusive approach to policies on innovation and new technology
To encourage more customer-friendly government funding instruments and institutions focusing more clearly on primary target groups
To boost the exchange of international knowledge and technology
To play an active role in developing international maritime safety and environmental regulations
To create a framework for enterprise employees to help ease transition into a knowledge-based economy to bolster Norwegian industry’s competitiveness
To promote education and skills building and thereby guarantee a secure supply of critical knowledge and skills resources to industry in the future
To execute state ownership in order to help foster positive trends and increased share prices in wholly or partly owned companies
To deploy administrative systems and provide services to help realize the Ministry’s primary objectives