Market Structure and Innovation Policies in Norway

Norway is a small country with high Gross domestic product per capita and a digitally sophisticated market. Norwegian and Nordic owner groups control newspapers, while foreign interests control the commercial broadcasting sector. Our analysis of Community Innovation Survey data shows that newspapers, radio- and television broadcasting firms are significantly less innovative in product, service and process innovation than the other service firms in the data set. The news media subsector as defined and covered in this book was significantly underrepresented in innovation funding schemes. While regulations limits growth of media firms, size might be an important precondition for media innovations.