The Oslo case: agile and adaptive responses to Covid-19 challenges by actors in local and globally extended health technology clusters

This chapter presents how actors in a Norwegian COI responded to the Covid-19 pandemic in its early stages. It focusses on the interplay between agile and adaptive responses to the crisis on both the local and successively the global level. We first present a local cluster to discuss what characterized its roles in the orchestration of governance and markets responding to the crisis. Second, we discuss how a global network of COIs' rapidly developed a digital solution first in Sri Lanka which then translated globally. Finally, we present a business case to exemplify how innovative healthcare services mobilized locally in Oslo and expanded to China. Our chapter illustrates how geographically networked COIs contribute in unique and effective ways by responding to a sudden global crisis. We suggest that agile and adaptive capabilities must be part of the existing governance systems and of the innovation cluster eco-systems to be able to deliver effective responses.