Abstract
For quite some time Norway looked, in concert with other Arctic coastal nations, to the less and less ice converged regions of the Arctic Ocean, contemplating about what the new conditions climate warming provided would entail for economic activities. Knowledge-based resource and ecosystem management procedures have long been a reality in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea. They started in the 1980s and continue now through the largest marine research in Norway, The Nansen Legacy. In order to obtain the necessary knowledge base, Norway had to create a united national polar expertise team. Based upon cooperation, division of labor, and focus for solving grand national questions, the realization of The Nansen Legacy project faced the challenge of national and scientific balance and that a national team cannot be evaluated through competition. Grand research challenges of the coastal Arctic states may depend upon national research teams and may demand particular organizational and financial procedures.
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