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I we can see that both offshore wind and photovoltaic firms participate quite extensively
in international collaborations. Moreover, we can notice that collaboration with customers is
particularly important, especially for OWP firms.
Figure 5-15 Percentage of firms that reported to collaborate with different international organisations on product
development and market access (answering yes or no).
Considering the perceived importance of international collaboration, it is interesting to note that 13
OWP and 7 PV firms have no collaboration with the international organisations that we asked about in
the survey. The PV firms can be explained by the fact that all of these firms are oriented exclusively or
primarily towards a domestic market. Many of the OWP firms, however, target primarily international
markets in the North Sea. For all but two of the firms with no international collaboration, OWP and PV
represent a very small share of the firms’ total revenue. This strengthens the impression that even
though there are a significant number of Norwegian firms participating in the OWP market, many of
these firms dedicate limited resources to activities in this market.
hows that whereas there is no relation between domestic collaboration and size of
investments in OWP and PV (in terms of FTEs), firms with significant investments in OWP and PV also
collaborate with a wider set of international organisations.
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