1. Marine Research Infrastructures in Västra Götaland
Anders Carlberg,
Maritime expert
Region Västra Götaland

2. Major marine research infrastructures in West Sweden: The Sven Loven Centre for Marine Sciences*
* Assemble

3. Additional marine research infrastructures
Lighthouse – Centre for
Shipping and Marine
Technology,
Gothenburg
Institute for marine
Research, Lysekil

4. The context of the MRI: A wide range of traditional and emerging industries looking for new applications
New applications in traditional industries:
The marimitime technology sector
The fisheries sector and food industry
Management of the marine environment
Emerging applications:
The energy sector
Managing climate change
The life science sector
Marine Spatial Planning

5. Marine research infrastructures in the innovation process
Criteria: Generally, regional development funding is directed towards MRI when research is conducted with the purpose of innovation.
Some possibilities for this in the ERDF and Interreg.
Best practise from current programs: Power Cluster, Nord-Ostron, Emsac, MARKIS, Blue Biotechnology for sustainable innovation (integrating marine biology with life-science), Mare Novum

6. How to move forward
Co-operation between academia and cluster organisations - for example Lighthouse and Swedish Marine Technology Forum
Support for co-operation between MRI and local and regional business promotion
Improved availability of data and results for end-users, e.g. Elixir
Specific priority for MRI’s involvment in innovation processes in regional programming like ERDF and Interreg