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The Norwegian Tech Industry is All at Sea
- reitanqild 12y agoFinally something I know about. Feel free to ask and I will try to answer :-)
- w1ntermute 12y agoDo you think other nations can replicate Norway's success in avoiding the resource curse? If so, how?
- TobbenTM 12y agoQuite a complex issue, this is a good talk about it though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f6geiVdwpk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f6geiVdwpk
- reitanqild 12y agoAbsolutely yes. But of course it depends. Making sure to stay in the drivers seat instead of selling out to a big company was the first step. Of course, if corruption is rampant everywhere this is much harder. Also setting targets and staying true to them seems to be important. Today the target is not to use anything from their oil fortune except the interest. This is something they seem to fight about every year but the majority seems to say no to the party idea every time.
- galago 12y agoIf their tech sector really has tilted strongly towards resource extraction it might be a sign that Norway isn't avoiding 'resource curse'. Helping other countries extract fossil fuels more quickly might well exacerbate the planet's upcoming crises. So, from my perspective this is part of the problem.
- reitanqild 12y agoPartly agree. For now it seems to be keeping them afloat into 2050 or something provided they don't come up with something really stupid before that. After that they have the worlds 3rd largest Thorium reserve. One good thing I think is at least they are not spending it as they extract it, rather investing it globally.
- amund 12y agoFortunately it's not all resource extraction, there is also significant amounts of mobile tech, ref: http://memkite.com/2014/04/28/trondheim-the-unknown-mobile-tech-capital-of-the-nordics/ http://memkite.com/2014/04/28/trondheim-the-unknown-mobile-t...
- 001sky 12y agoThe resource curse seems to be mitigated the more the local population is involved in the engineering and science of the various resource exploratin/extraction processes. Norway having a tech-sector to "tilt" towards resource extraction is itself highly unusual.
- rdl 12y agoWhen I had time to dive, I was looking at making a ROV or AUV to scout out dive sites and generally explore; are there a lot of hobby projects in that space, or is it all fairly high-end now? What I'd love is something designed for reef photography, ideally with days of dwell time.
- reitanqild 12y agoThe nearest I come to knowing anything about this is having used a waterproof camera-on-a-cable hooked up with fishing gear. (However good friend of mine has worked on support vessels in the North Sea and had some amazing stories, complete w/pictures of big angler fish, Lophius piscatorius I think, caught with high end ROVs.)
- erikano 12y agoYou may find the OpenROV project to be of interest to you. http://www.openrov.com/ http://www.openrov.com/
- dang 12y agoSubmitters: please read the articles you post and make sure they aren't lifted from a more original source. If they are, submit that one instead. HN strongly prefers original sources. We changed the url from http://www.geektime.com/2014/05/03/the-norwegian-tech-industry-is-all-at-sea/ http://www.geektime.com/2014/05/03/the-norwegian-tech-indust...
- dredmorbius 12y agoThank you. I'm strongly in favor of link disambiguation.
- kken 12y agoNorway has quite a bit of hardware startups, which are otherwise rare in Europe. It's not all about Oil. Notable examples are: - Nordic VLSI: Wireless ICs like nRF24L01, Basically responsible for the Blue Tooth Low Energy standard. - AVR: Well known 8-Bit microprocessors. Sold to Atmel - Energy Micro: Low Power ARM Microcontrollers. Sold to Silicon Labs. - Phalanx: GPU Cores. Sold to ARM.
- Dwolb 12y agoAlso, Chipcon, sold to TI [1]. [1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipcon http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipcon
- Gustomaximus 12y agoSome better known Norwegian tech companies not 'at sea' are; Telenor & Nimsoft and Opera Software.