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Figure 5-6 Number of firms with activities in OWP and PV in different regions.

Source:

Data from survey and

proff.no

5.1.3

Related industries

To further explore firm characteristics and given the potential importance of related industries for

development of new ones we were interested in the extent and nature of links between related

industries and OWP and PV.

Figure 5-7

depicts the industry in which firms have their core business

areas. For both industries we observe that a majority of firms have their core activity in other industries

than OWP and PV. This is particularly evident for OWP, with only 18 per cent of firms having OWP as

their core activity. The majority of the OWP firms have core activities in

maritime

industries,

other

industries including engineering and design, as well as

oil & gas

. We should here add that many of the

maritime firms are oriented towards oil and gas. For PV the share of firms having PV as a main activity

is larger, but 57 per cent of firms have their core business activity in

buildings and construction, industry

and materials

and

energy

Figure 5-7 Respondents’ primary industry

Source:

Data from survey and desk research

Figure 5-8

shows the relationship between OWP firms’ primary industry and their place in the supply

chain for OWP

4 .

The first thing to note is that the firms with

offshore wind

as the primary industry is a

diverse group as we can observe these firms across the entire supply chain. Moreover, we can see that

firms in the

oil & gas

industry deliver products and services to most of the categories in the supply

chain. We find most of these firms in

foundations

logistics

and

operations & maintenance

. When we

4 The use of Sankey diagrams to display industry diversification was inspired by (Weaver & Steen 2013).

Solar PV

43 %

Buildings

and

construc-

tion

19 %

Industry

and

Materials

16 %

Energy

10 %

Other

12 %

PV respondents' primary industry

Offshore

wind

18 %

Oil & Gas

18 %

Maritime

26 %

Electrical

infrastructure

6 %

Other

renewables

8 %

Other

25 %

OWP respondents' primary industry