Innovation District NODE60 & Eco Governance

‍NODE60 -Kunnskapsbyen Lillestrøm: creating functional proximity across regional nodes

NODE60 shows how an emerging innovation district can connect regional strengths that are distributed across several locations and sectors. The district links Lørenskog, Akershus University Hospital, Lillestrøm city centre and there search environments at Kjeller through shared priorities, innovationprojects, meeting arenas and active orchestration by Kunnskapsbyen Lillestrøm.The aim is to create functional proximity across health, energy and securityand preparedness, turning geographical dispersion into practical collaboration,testbed activities and clearer pathways from knowledge to implementation.

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Eco Governance

Whatever topic brings your delegation to the Oslo Region, green buildings, circular economy, smart energy or zero-emission transport, the question we hear most often is the same. How did you actually make this happen?

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That question is at the heart of every Green Visits program. We call it Eco Governance. The interaction between political leadership, business and research that turns ambitious targets into working solutions. In the Oslo Region, you won't just see the technology. You will meet the people who built the system around it, and understand how that knowledge can be transferred to your own context.

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What makes a visit a true Eco Governance experience is not the facility alone, but the combination of:

• A site to see – where the solution is working in practice
• A politician or public official who explains the decisions and policies that made it possible
• A private actor who delivered the technology or service

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‍The Oslo Region as a model

Few places in the world combine high political ambition, short decision-making pathways and a strong culture of public-privatecollaboration the way the Oslo Region does. As the first city in the world to introduce a Climate Budget, Oslo has made sustainability a matter of governance, not just policy. The results are visible across the region. In world-class waste infrastructure, zero-emission construction sites, and an electric vehicle transition that delegations travel from across the globe to study.

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Behind every solution is a decision-making process.That process is what we make visible.

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NODE60 Innovation District

A key part of understanding how Norway works is understanding NODE60 – a collaboration-driven innovation district that brings together knowledge, research, business, public sector and local communities in a shared regional ecosystem for innovation and value creation. NODE60 is not one physical building, but a network of nodes anchored at Kjeller, one of Northern Europe's most significant research environments.

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For international delegations, NODE60 offers directaccess to the ecosystem where green solutions are not just developed, buttested, financed and scaled.

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Innovation and start-ups

Oslo has a young and enthusiastic start-up scene. More and more start-ups in Oslo develop their business models to tackle regional, national and even global challenges, and clean and affordable energy is no exception. Bright minds that were a part of the oil and gas industry before have chosen the path of renewable energy and have left the corporate world for the more exciting start-up scene. Incubators, start-up villages and co-working spaces are the new up-and-coming job generators in Oslo.

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Target Group

Eco Governance programs are particularly relevant for delegations from cities, regions and national governments seeking transferableknowledge, not just inspiration, but practical insight into how decisions aremade, how sectors are aligned, and how political ambition becomes concreteaction.

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Whether your challenge is waste management, urbanplanning, clean energy or zero-emission transport, the governance model behind Norway's success is the knowledge most worth bringing home.

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Ready to learn? Contact us to design a program for your delegation.

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