MedCoast supports Swedish-Norwegian collaboration within the field of Marine Innovation. The cluster of marin innovation -combining research, public and private sectors - is served through the organisation MareLife in Norway and MareNovum in Sweden. The two organisations are managing joint projects.
MARELIFE
MareLife is a Bio-marine member association mobilising trendsetters along the entire value chain; addressing branch-wide challenges and potentials and gathers all major bio-marine branches: Fisheries, Aquaculture and Marine compounds.
MareLife acts in several major ways
- Projects: Facilitates collaboration between members on common research projects and challenges too big to be handled by individual players
- Commercialization: Assists in commercialization of ideas and inventions
- Public financial framework: Optimizing public frameworks for marine research and innovation
- Communication: Communicates its efforts to build reputation of trust for the sector and to extend its network
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MARENOVUM
mare novum is a new Swedish Centre for development of marine innovations. It is a partnership between the University of Gothenburg and the five northern coast municipalities in Bohuslän; Strömstad, Tanum, Sotenäs, Munkedal och Lysekil.
Mare novum focuses on
- providing counselling support for development of research-based innovations and business projects focusing on marine applications
- acting as a gate for industry and others to the academic world and has an extensive network with research institutions both within Sweden and abroad.
- mediating cooperation's between industry and others e.g. in joint R&D programs, arranging forum for discussions and seminars in relevant topics and support in commercialisation of innovative ideas.
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MareLife and MareNovum are involed in the Scandinavian projects Blue Bio Open Innovation (BBOI) and Nord-Ostron
