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Also known as The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research, Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research, SINTEF AS

SINTEF (, "The Foundation for Industrial and Technical Research"), headquartered in Trondheim, Norway, is an independent research organization founded in 1950 that conducts contract research and development projects. SINTEF has 2000 employees from 75 countries and annual revenues of three billion Norwegian kroner. SINTEF has a close partnership with Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), started in 1950 when SINTEF was founded. SINTEF has expertise in technology, medicine and the social sciences. Alexandra Bech Gjørv is the CEO of SINTEF, preceded by Unni Steinsmo, Morten Loktu

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Company.name
SINTEF
Company.type
Private
Company.foundation
1950
Company.location
Trondheim, Norway
Company.industry
Research
Company.products
Research projects
Company.num_employees
2000 (2017)
Company.homepage
www.sintef.no

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Research organization · ROR

Type
Facility
Founded
1950
Location
Trondheim, Norway
Also known as
The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research
Status
Active

GRID grid.4319.f · ISNI 0000 0004 0448 3150

Wikidata facts

Official name
Stiftelsen SINTEF
Employees
2257
Official website
sintef.no/en
Image
SINTEF road sign.jpg
Motto
Teknologi for et bedre samfunn
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inception
1950-01-26
IPv6 routing prefix
2001:700:3400::/48
Commons category
Sintef
official blog URL
blog.sintef.com
operating income
135523
endowment
3199895000
total equity
2858213000
email address
mailto:[email protected]
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SINTEF (, "The Foundation for Industrial and Technical Research"), headquartered in Trondheim, Norway, is an independent research organization founded in 1950 that conducts contract research and development projects. SINTEF has 2000 employees from 75 countries and annual revenues of three billion Norwegian kroner. SINTEF has a close partnership with Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), started in 1950 when SINTEF was founded. SINTEF has expertise in technology, medicine and the social sciences. Alexandra Bech Gjørv is the CEO of SINTEF, preceded by Unni Steinsmo, Morten Loktu and Roar Arntzen.

== History == SINTEF was established in 1950 by the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), which was later merged into the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). It was originally intended to be an arm of NTH extended towards industry, where professors at NTH saw opportunities to build up a mission research business and used SINTEF as an instrument to do that. Through 1980, the activities were organized as SINTEF departments with the local professor in charge. With that link to the university in mind, the full name was, until a statute change in 2008, the Company for industrial and technical research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology.

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