The project is an international collaboration between partners in Australia, Norway and Sweden that seeks to analyse innovation processes in resource based economies. It is often argued that resource-intensive economies are subject to a ‘resource curse’ that condemns them to slow growth at best and poverty at worst. However there are a significant number of exceptions: some of the richest economies of the world are resource-based. This project concerns the links between innovation, growth and public policy in economies in which significant proportions of output and exports derive from resource-based sectors such as oil and gas, minerals and agriculture. As part of a collaborative international project involving other small, open resource-based economies, it will explore how such economies achieve high-income levels, and what factors will be central to future growth.