On a more serious note, we're only like 5 mill people,
and while we don't rock the nobel prices I think the oil has pushed us more towards engineering than theoretical research (for better or worse..).
Agree our Universities should be better than they are - it's apparently hard to get funding for something that isn't directly applicable to oil, subsea or salmon.
But you probably use lots of stuff designed/invented in Norway without knowing.
Example: Do you use a GSM phone? GSM was invented at a Norwegian University.
Lots of research for subsea-technology, oh, and we're pretty good at ship design stuff - dating back from the viking age until now (x-bow).
Techy stuff: Energy Micro, Nordic Semiconductors, some parts of Atmel, Opera, FAST, etc.
Most of the oil welfare fund is invested abroad - all over the world (reduces risk and avoids inflation), these days heavily geared towards green technologies / energy.
Didn't know GSM was controversial, that's very interesting, wonder what happened there.
But still, I bet you interact with gadgets powered by tech from Norway on a daily basis, even if we remove GSM from the equation: the Atmel AVR micros, radios and micros from Nordic Semiconductor, Energy Micro and Chipcon, etc. Maybe you also touch a UI built on QT (Trolltech), even though the QT phones never became a success. :)
On a more serious note, we're only like 5 mill people, and while we don't rock the nobel prices I think the oil has pushed us more towards engineering than theoretical research (for better or worse..). Agree our Universities should be better than they are - it's apparently hard to get funding for something that isn't directly applicable to oil, subsea or salmon.
But you probably use lots of stuff designed/invented in Norway without knowing. Example: Do you use a GSM phone? GSM was invented at a Norwegian University.
Lots of research for subsea-technology, oh, and we're pretty good at ship design stuff - dating back from the viking age until now (x-bow). Techy stuff: Energy Micro, Nordic Semiconductors, some parts of Atmel, Opera, FAST, etc.
Most of the oil welfare fund is invested abroad - all over the world (reduces risk and avoids inflation), these days heavily geared towards green technologies / energy.