Assignment
Inventory of Norwegian strategies, instruments and key players that actively develop an integrated ‘BLUE ECONOMY’ and to identify areas of cooperation, potential partners and strategies that The Netherlands could follow to connect.

Since the Royal State visit, the former Dutch fisheries attaché and MARELIFE founder Øystein Lie have suggested coordinated efforts to improve Dutch-Norwegian collaboration additional marine sectors AQUACULTURE, BIOTECH, ALGAE and MARITIME by following 4 strategies:
1. Optimizing PUBLIC FRAMEWORKS
2. COMMERCIALIZATION & MARKETING
3. BRANCH COLLABORATION & PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING
4. R&D BASED INNOVATION PROJECTS

The exploratory character of this report makes it a starting point to further develop these 4 strategies. The informa- tion and leads in this document are a logic follow-up of bi-lateral efforts of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs through its fisheries attaché.