Summary of Abelias political plattform 2020-2025
Norway is facing a number of challenges: Increasing public spending, which now makes up more than half of our country's gross domestic product, and a mainland economy that is unable to support this level of expenditure. In addition, Norway’s economy has a vulnerable industrial structure where a large portion of the state’s revenue streams come from a few resource-based industries. Furthermore, climate and environmental challenges mean that Norway’s economy and society must undergo a green transition.
New knowledge, technology, and innovation power provide significant opportunities to solve the issues we are facing. Insoluble problems have become solvable, and new opportunities of creating value are possible. At the same time, the pace of development is escalating, competition is fierce, and Norway must rapidly facilitate an innovative and adaptable business sector.
Increased value creation through collaboration between the public, private, and non-profit sectors. The welfare state has been built on collaboration between the private sector, the non-profit sector, and the public sector. This is an advantage we must preserve. At the same time, we are experiencing that the digital transformation is shifting boundaries—boundaries for what can be achieved and how. In addition, it challenges established role models and the division of labor. Digital transformation has made the time ripe for a new look at the role distribution between the public sector, the private sector, and the non-profit sector in Norway. To meet future challenges, we must ensure good cooperation and clear task sharing between the different sectors, as well as predictability. We must come together for value creation.
Norwegian businesses must be internationally oriented. Norway has a small and outward-facing economy that relies on foreign trade and foreign technology development. Our ability to collaborate internationally will be crucial for our ability to create a diversity of new economic pillars. At the same time, Norwegian businesses must build world-class knowledge and technology. We must also look outward to the global market and seek international cooperation through the development of future-oriented digital infrastructure, expertise, and research.
The private sector is an important part of the solution, also for climate and environmental challenges. The global climate and environmental challenges are a result of industrialization and economic growth in Western countries. This is a growth that developing countries also wish to partake in. To achieve sustainable development, we must therefore develop solutions that increasingly decouple economic growth from emissions and environmental impact. The UN's Sustainable Development Goals have become a roadmap for sustainable business opportunities. Sustainability must be a decisive part of core business and value chains in companies going forward, and resource use must become circular.
Just as no one in 1960 could foresee the significance that the oil and gas industry or the aquaculture industry would have today, it is difficult to say for sure what we will live on in the future. But we do know this: value and jobs do not arise on their own. Knowledge and technology have been—and will continue to be—crucial for converting a good starting point into actual value and jobs.
To address these challenges and safeguard the Norwegian welfare society, we must focus on:
- Research and innovation
- Public-private cooperation
- Technology and digitization
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- Sustainability and better resource utilization
- Competence
- A modern and responsible labor policy
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