Eilif Trondsen is Research Director at Strategic Business Insights, formerly Stanford Research Institute. He describes himself as a “Scandihoovian” – originally from Norway, he went to California to visit Silicon Valley, and was so taken with the place he decided to stay. That was 34 years ago. More recently, however, he has been drawn back across the Atlantic to analyse developments in the Scandinavian world – to see if Europe’s new start-up capitals are evolving on similar lines to America’s.
