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Figure 5-9 Relation between primary industry and PV supply chain (number of firms)
The key finding for both industries is that most of the firms have primary activities in other industries
than OWP and PV, and we observe overlap between activities in OWP and PV and related industries
on a firm level for a dominant proportion of firms. We interpret this to mean that firms have diversified
their activities into OWP and PV coming from activities in other industries. Thus, most firms have
initiated OWP or PV activities building on experience and activities in their primary industries.
The role of related industries is further underlined in
figure 5-10,which depicts the industries from
which firms state they have experiences relevant to their OWP or PV activities. For OWP the relation
to
maritime
and
oil & gas
industries becomes more strongly pronounced with 82 per cent of firms
stating these as industries from which they have relevant experience. This shows that many firms can
benefit from experiences from for instance oil & gas without having this as their primary industry. For
PV we observe that 45 per cent of firms state that they base products or services on experience from
industry and materials
in addition to
electrical and heating and cooling
.