The innovation ecosystem plays a crucial role in the success of startups, but these ecosystems are facing operational and strategic obstacles that limit their potential. The operational difficulties include an inability to effectively support startups leading to high failure rates, low engagement from startups, and resource-intensive reporting processes. On the strategic front, innovation ecosystems face intense competition and struggle to scale their efforts and establish sustainable business models, which often rely heavily on government funding. These challenges impact a wide range of players in the ecosystem, including incubators, accelerators, universities, and enterprise innovation departments. Addressing these challenges can lead to a thriving startup ecosystem, boosting economic growth and driving progress. By investing in the solution of these significant problems, the innovation ecosystem has the potential to unleash its full potential and drive positive change.

Evoy is an ambitious company with expansive growth. Our vision is to eliminate emissions from boats around the world and to make a vital contribution to the biggest challenge of our time, the climate crisis. Our core values are genuine, Innovative, Sustainable and Fun. Evoy develops and sells world-leading powerful electric propulsion systems for boats in the professional and leisure boat segment. We are building an organization and product portfolio that is making the transition from being regional to international. Our employees will experience the joy of building something relevant, unique, and electrifying. Our head office in Florø is situated in the innovations cluster Peak Florø. Peak Florø houses several companies that are investing heavily in the blue environmental shift and Evoy will contribute further to developing this environment. Florø is known for its idyllic location and proximity to fjords, mountains, and the sea. The beautiful archipelago is perfect to explore with Evoy's all-electric high-speed boat, Evoy1. We have good travel connections to Oslo and Bergen (Air and highspeed boat terminals). With Evoy, YOU can personally make a real difference in the fight to save our climate.

At Address, our passion lies in empowering individuals to achieve the dream of homeownership. By pioneering a cutting-edge rent-to-own platform, we aim to make a lasting social impact and unlock a world of financial opportunities for our valued customers. As a registered Alternative Investment Fund Manager with the FSA in Norway, you can trust our commitment to excellence and integrity.

Sevendof is building the drone infrastructure of the future. We seek to make drones available as a service to help solve problems such as inspection, mapping, and search and rescue. To accomplish this, we're building a network of stations housing long-range drones capable of carrying out missions automatically, without humans in the field. With Sevendof's drone infrastructure, different users will be able to use the same drones to solve different use-cases, which will allow us to improve the availability and reduce operational costs for each user. Our mission is to make drones a safe and positive tool to help solve important problems in a scalable manner.

SurplusHub.com - the world's premier marketplace for selling and buying surplus oil, gas and shipping equipment. The oil and gas industry is global, extensive and a mass consumer of equipment and materials. SurplusHub.com offers a more convenient way of trading surplus, saving time, money and reducing environmental impacts. The oil and gas industry is fast moving, procurement-intensive and resource demanding. Oil field operators, service industry majors and third party suppliers are under constant pressure to have updated and specialized parts in hand, replacement readily available and at the same time balance logistics, lead times and regulations. As a result budgets are often massive to ensure quick deliveries, and environmental aspects down prioritized. SurplusHub.com is a brand new take on how equipment and materials can be indexed, accessed, sold, bought and reused on a global scale. The result are lower cost, more efficient sourcing procedures, shorter lead times and significantly reduced environmental impacts. Too often industry surplus is perfectly fine, sometimes even brand new second hand, and with varying needs across the globe, one company's scrapping candidate might be golden for someone else. SurplusHub.com offer an online solution that enables buyers and sellers to discover, connect, trade and ship all over the world, from anywhere to anywhere. The online portal, which pre-launched 2 year ago, has been custom built from the ground up to be tailored and adapted to actual industry needs and modes of operation: The item categories adhere to internationally recognized classifications and descriptions, users can easily put items up for sale on the go using the mobile app, and any documentation can be uploaded alongside each item, and the trade dialogues are logged and carried out directly between registered sellers and buyers, ensuring transparency, efficiency and amicability.

At Counting Hero we develop cutting edge machine vision systems, capable of recognizing and classifying items and events in videos and images. Counting Hero AS was established in September 2019 and is currently running development projects. We have our first pilots in deployment. Organization count 3 persons. One on full time and two on part time. For 2020 we will grow the organization and to complete first investment round. We are currently funded by sales, innovation norway support, project grant from the norwegian research council and sweat equity from owners. Counting Hero is located with offices in Bergen, Norway. Working for Counting Hero gives you the opportunity to stay in the forefront of available technologies.

RAGE for Climate allows everyone to fight climate change with direct and measurable impact. We focus on enabling businesses and individuals to make a real and traceable change in reducing air pollution by supporting renewable energy projects. This ensures there’s no greenwashing and no contributing to projects that have already been established and provide no additional impact with your money. With RAGE, you get real-time data on your contribution showing your environmental impact and how you're making a real difference on climate change. 100% climate impact 100% guarantee of where your money is going and 100% no bullshit. #realimpact #nobullshit #rageforclimate

In 2015 the UN implemented 17 Sustainable Development Goals, aiming for a sustainable society by 2030. Today we register the US withdrawing from the Paris agreement, CO2 levels at an all time high and increased polarization in our society. We, the youth, are fighting every day to rally the wider population. We are running short of time and change needs to happen now. Our leadership tool shall empower us to gather people around sustainability. Anyone can be a mini Greta with our (r)evolutionary technology.

Fygi Technologies leverer programvare for selvbetjening til detaljhandelen. Kundene våre er fremtidsrettede forhandlere som ønsker å gi kundene sine en bedre shoppingopplevelse. Teknologi skapte e-handelen, og nettbutikkene utnytter teknologien. Nå vil fysiske butikker delta i revolusjonen. FYGI er fremtiden for fysisk handel, og skaper gode og effektive shoppingopplevelser. - Espen Lippert, grunnlegger Fygi Technologies

Kobler is a trusted B2B company located in Oslo, Norway. Our expertise is online text processing, and we have powered the search engine for the Norwegian Parliament for many years. Since 2012 we have focused on the adtech industry. Here at Kobler we believe that the widespread harvesting of personal data going on today is one of the largest risks to society and that people should be allowed to go about their day online without fear of every action they take being tracked. We are providing both publishers and advertisers an alternative that does not use personal data at all.

Clean Sea Solutions AS is a Norwegian Ocean Tech company that develop innovative solutions to prevent and reduce plastic waste in the sea. Our products are designed to collect plastic waste in and below the water surface in lakes, water channels, rivers and river mouths, harbors, marinas, and other close coastal areas. This year, and in collaboration with the City of Oslo, Clean Sea Solutions (CSS) is launching the CSS Aqua-Drone, an all-electric, autonomous floating waste-collecting aqua-drone in the Port of Oslo. Using a combination of computer vision and remote sensing based on ultrasound or 3D laser scanning (LIDAR) technologies. The robot gathers trash and stores it on board, disposes it at a dedicated docking station, and recharges for the next mission. Our solutions are advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals with technologies that reducing plastic pollution, contributing to the sustainability of the ocean, and improve the quality and sustainability of water resources by addressing the impact of plastic waste inflow.

Our Value Proposition JodaCare seeks to improve communication between family caregivers and health personnel, to improve life quality an dignity for people with dementia or cognitive impairments.    Our Product JodaCare delivers a secure, digital communication and information sharing platform for, connecting health personnel and family caregivers taking care of the same patient.    We are a diverse startup with dedicated people from ages in the twenties, thirties and forties, more women than men, some start early and some start late. We all the same goal, making the life for patients, relatives and workers easier.

Vi er et konsortium med hundeluftere og er på utkikk etter andre hundeluftere i Oslo og Bærum. Vi ønsker å utvide og er på utkikk etter personer som er glad i hund og natur. I tillegg er det essensielt at du har egen bil.  Dette er en perfekt jobb til deg som ønsker en jobb ved siden av ditt start-up. Vi er gründere og driver andre start-up samtidig som vi får likviditet fra Vennensin Hundelufting og Hundepass.

Glocal View is an IT software company from Norway, established with a vision to help companies succeed with Sourcing initiatives. Our aim is to provide vendor independent advisory and delivery services within sourcing (where sourcing could be both local or global) to our customers. Glocal View has prior experience in various consulting to sourcing and development assignments, hence our customers also get benefits of domain expertise and process understanding.

You can read about aerodynamics, but it won't teach you how to fly. You can, however, learn how to fly in a flight simulator. It is a risk free environment where pilots-to-be can make wrong decisions without damaging expensive equipment or causing loss of life.  Playing Lean is a flight simulator for innovation and Lean Startup. It's an enjoyable board game where players are forced to make difficult choices without risking their life savings or the future of their workplaces. The worst case scenario is a humiliating defeat at the hands of your colleagues (quite scary, actually). Playing Lean is a new physical board game designed to teach the concepts and mechanics of Lean Startup in a class or workshop setting. Playing Lean was awarded the Nordic Crowdfunding Alliance "Best Norwegian Crowdfunding Campaign Award" in the Educational Products and Services category 2016.