The Goodwill Agreement's Effect on R&D in Business and Institutes, 1992

The objective of this project was to study projects under The Goodwill Agreement and their implications for the Norwegian partners, as well as how R&D was affected, especially in relation to the coming EEA Agreement. The registry data gave an overview of recipient companies and the sum of receipts from The Goodwill Agreement for each year from 1983 to 1991. The material gathered through questionnaires included background information about the company's R&D, characteristics of the technologies included in the agreement, organization of the agreement and evaluations. To limit recollection problems, the respondents were mainly asked about recent projects. 40 respondents returned the questionnaire. This means the response rate was 56 %, which is considered to be relatively high.