Guidelines for collaboration with industry have been established at Oslo University Hospital, available in eHåndboken (in Norwegian only). Documents of special relevance are:

• Guideline for other occupations for OUS employees
• Collaboration with industry
• Collaboration with industry in R&D projects

For all interaction and cooperation with industry, it is important that impartiality and conflicts of interest are properly safeguarded, not least as part of research collaboration. In the guidelines for collaboration with industry in R&D projects you will find useful information about what is important to keep in mind. Conflicts of interest in research are also relevant from a research ethics perspective. For more information, see the Research Ethics Library website.

Agreements that establish a framework for collaboration and contract research have been established between the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (HSØ) and the Pharmaceutical Industry (LMI) as well as with Medtek Norge (industry organization for health and welfare technology). The collaboration agreements apply to all hospitals in the HSØ region and can be found here (in Norwegian only):

Collaboration agreement HSØ / LMI

Collaboration agreement HSØ / MedtekNorge (LFH)