NIDA - Nordic industrial development agency

- A network of advisers and consultants in the Nordic countries and the Baltic states

We provide professional consulting services

in the Nordics- and the Baltics countries  

In the Nordic and Baltic countries, we offer professional consulting services. Nida's specialty is bringing important facts and new knowledge to the client prior to making a decision or beginning a change process or business development. Nida advises and consults the public sector, specifically municipalities, regions, and counties. In our home market of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, we also provide consulting and advice to international investors and private companies. Nida's main goal is to help municipalities and regions in the Nordics and Baltics with sustainable business development and business cooperation by sharing good solutions from other municipalities and regions in the Nordics and Baltics. Nida also works with private businesses to find new solutions for responsible growth and cross-national cooperation in the Nordics and Baltics.

A Nida survey in your municipalities

Make opportunities and knowledge for regions and municipalities visible for long-term business growth. Nida's main product is advice and consulting services to the public sector, specifically municipalities, regions, and counties within:

1. To identify and strengthen existing business opportunities in municipalities, regions, or counties.
2. Review municipal rental activities for commercial real estate to see if management and operation are the best possible according to political and commercial goals, as well as uncovering values and expected future costs if the goal is to satisfy future operations in accordance with the Green Shift ambitions.  Read more..

See too a detailed description of the offers available in each Nordic and Baltic country.

Private companies and investors can benefit from advice and consulting services.

We provide advice and consulting services to private companies and investors in selecting the right location, in the right country, in the right municipality - region, for new investment and the establishment of a new production unit as our main product. We also provide advice on existing business acquisitions for the same purposes as new establishments.

NIDA provides the following advice and service to international businesses seeking a physical presence in tne Nordic or in the Baltic

• Acquisition through collaboration: Business search for potential collaboration or acquisition based on client specifications, such as type of business, geography, and so on. We also provide this service to clients who want to sell their business on a regular basis.
  
• Localization for new businesses or for start-ups:  Nida suggests locations based on client's specification. Specification here can be about access to suitable areas, relevant labour, suitable infrastructure here water, sewage, electricity, cooperation with the public sector in e.g. trainingof employees, support etc. Access to relevant subcontractors can be an important point in the decision-making phase. NIDA has developed a comprehensive tool through a PA Book for localization of industry and businesses nationally and internationally perspective. PA-Boken's checklists cover and take care of most wishes and needs that a client would have as a decision-making basis for choosing location for new business. The PA Book also covers questions about the attractiveness of hosting and the desire for business-friendly municipalities that have short decision-making processes and good communication.
• Investing in construction and process equipment - machinery:  Nida offers advice on new construction, Green Field, purchasing existing industrial buildings/buildings, investing with others or alone, and possibly renting long-term lease agreements. Nida also advises on public support opportunities for building measures and process measures (machines and equipment). Nida also works with leading construction, process, automation, and robotics consulting firms to conduct a feasibility study that includes budgets and technology selection.
• Legal clarifications and the "due diligence process"  If needed, Nida can assist in obtaining documentation and veritas of documentation as part of a "due diligence process." Our legal team partner in an approved law firm handles all legal clarifications.
• Arrange company visit or presentation of municipalities, regions, and country as potential locations for new business establishment: Nida organizes tours and company visits with professional content lectures for a smaller number of participants. Nida provides tailored professional content based on the client's specifications. Nida also emphasizes that all participants should be able to have informal conversations in a social setting. Visits to businesses established abroad are popular for learning as well as establishing contact for future fruitful collaboration or division of labor. We take care of hotel bookings, local transportation, restaurant recommendations, and much more in collaboration with local Nida offices in the other Nordic countries and the Baltics. We want these trips to be memorable in both academic and social ways. Please contact us and we will recommend a program.

Our consultants and advisors have extensive and valuable experience.

Our consultants and advisers have extensive experience in project management for business research, business and industrial development, business development, internationalization, and personal experience in the management of private and public commercial property, with some having over 25 years of experience.  Read more

International initiatives Outside of the Nordic and Baltic countries, Nida provides the following services. Read more

Project4 is a Nordic-Baltic commercial corporation.

The Nordics and Baltics have a combined population of 33.7 million people (2021). In other words, if we can promote a sustainable division of labor and cooperation, we will have a large single market.   

More Information

Nida requests feedback on how to digitize municipal, regional, and business development across national borders in the Nordics and Baltics.

This could include the creation of digital tools and digital meeting places for growth and collaboration. This can be a digital meeting place for business collaboration, an overview of vacant commercial premises, here rental buildings, commercial buildings for sale, green field, good export market channels, and so on. Help us by creating more relevant content for your municipality or region's best possible business development and place attractiveness.  Send us an email at post@nida.agency with your proposal.  Thank you in advance