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Overall, we found that the majority of firms in both industries can be categorised as services firms (74
per cent of PV firms and 67 per cent of OWP firms). By that we mean that they deliver primarily services
rather than manufactured products to the PV or OWP industries.
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Regional clusters
We also mapped the location of firms’ headquarters in order to identify the geographic distribution of
OWP and PV activities in Norwa
y 3. Fro
m figure 5-6,we can see that a significant number of firms are
located in and around the Oslo region. However, a large number of the offshore wind firms are also
located in the regions that have traditionally been strong in oil & gas and maritime industries. For
instance, 12 of the 18 OWP firms located in the Northwest region have their primary activity in
maritime industries.
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Some of the firms will have production or R&D facilities in separate locations to the headquarter.