SINTEF

The SINTEF Group is the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia. Every year, SINTEF supports the development of 2000 or so Norwegian and overseas companies via their research and development activity.

The abbreviation SINTEF means The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH). SINTEF was established in Trondheim in 1950 and expanded rapidly in the following years. The largest expansion came in 1993 when the "Centre for Industrial Research" in Oslo merged with SINTEF and created the SINTEF Oslo campus.

Locations SINTEF has approximately 1700 employees, 1300 of which are located in Trondheim and 350 in Oslo. There are also offices in in Bergen, Stavanger and Ålesund, in addition to offices in Houston, Texas (USA), Skopje (Republic of Macedonia) and a laboratory in Hirtshals (Denmark). SINTEF's head office is in Trondheim.

Organisation The SINTEF Group consists of the SINTEF Foundation and five limited companies. On January 1, 2004 the SINTEF Group was restructured into six research divisions, which have been defined in terms of value chains and industrial market clusters:

• SINTEF Health Research
• SINTEF ICT
• SINTEF Marine - consists of MARINTEK and SINTEF Fishery and Aquaculture
• SINTEF Materials and Chemistry
• SINTEF Petroleum and Energy - consists of SINTEF Energy Research and SINTEF Petroleum Research
• SINTEF Technology and Society

The fifth limited company is Sinvent, where the Group's commercial activities and its shares in start-up companies are placed.

SINTEF website

The text above has to a large extent been copied from the SINTEF website.