 In addition, Simula seeks cooperation with industry in order to provide solutions, increase the relevance of the research, and strengthen the funding of basic research.Simula’s policy is to base industrial alliances on long-term collaboration with partners that regard the laboratory’s research to be of strategic importance.The organisational and funding framework allows basic research to take centre stage, without any domination by constraints from pursuit of external funding typically found in industrial research institutes, or from the heavier teaching commitments found in the Universities.