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The resource curse seems to be mitigated the more the local population is involved in the engineering and science of the various resource exploratin/extraction processes. Norway having a tech-sector to "tilt" towards resource extraction is itself highly unusual.

Fortunately it's not all resource extraction, there is also significant amounts of mobile tech, ref: http://memkite.com/2014/04/28/trondheim-the-unknown-mobile-t...

Partly agree. For now it seems to be keeping them afloat into 2050 or something provided they don't come up with something really stupid before that. After that they have the worlds 3rd largest Thorium reserve.

One good thing I think is at least they are not spending it as they extract it, rather investing it globally.