Knowledge intensive service activities and innovation in public home based services to elderly in Norway – Part project report from the OECD KISA study

This is the second of three studies of the use of knowledge intensive service activities (KISA) in innovation in specific industries or sectors. The report consists of the Norwegian part of an OECD study which includes several other countries. The main focus is on KISA and innovation processes in home based services to elderly in a city district (Manglerud/Østensjø) in Oslo, Norway. One of the main objectives of the study is to provide insights into how public sector organisations maintain and develop productive and innovative capabilities through utilisation of KISA, provided by internal and/or external sources. However, the ultimate objective of the KISA project, i.e. the study of the three specific industries or sectors, is to inform government policy and programs on how to use KISA in building innovation capability of firms and organisations across industries and sectors in the economy. Typical examples of knowledge intensive service activities provided both internally and obtained by external input in firms and organisations include: R&D, management/administration, IT services, human resource management, accounting and economic services, marketing/information services, project management, organisational development, training etc

Norwegian Fulbright Grantee Survey

This report presents the findings of a survey covering recipients of Fulbright scholarships in Norway between 1990 and 2005. The main focus of the survey is to shed light on the value and benefits of the scholarship to its grantees

New forms of home blindness: Rethinking fieldwork methods in digitalized environments

Digital Anthropology has in the past two decades emerged as a field that seeks to better grasp experiences of being human within digital technology and culture. However, digital technology is today so entangled in everyday practices that it gives as little meaning to single it out as a specific field of inquiry as it does to leave it out. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Norway, one of the most digitalized countries in the world, we argue that the ubiquity of the digital re-actualizes classic debates in the discipline on ‘home blindness’ emerging from the methodological challenges of doing fieldwork in familiar surroundings. We argue that building on methodological and analytical perspectives from the home blindness debate can help us better understand what it means to be human in digital environments.publishedVersio

Forskningsinstituttene og næringslivet: Delrapport 1: Aktørene i samspillet

Notatet beskriver forskningsinstituttenes omfang av prosjekter utført på oppdrag for og med finansiering i norsk næringsliv. Utover en ren kartlegging av dette markedet, går studien også litt nærmere inn på forhold vedrørende de instituttene som driver oppdragsforskning for næringslivet samt bedriftene som bruker institutter til utvikling av FoUtjenester

IT Funk-prosjektenes skjebne 1998-2004

Hovedformålet med denne undersøkelsen er å undersøke faglige og kommersielle resultater av IT Funk prosjekter

Association between neutropenia and IgG antineutrophil antibodies in a case of <i>CD40LG </i>deficiency due to two novel mutations

This case suggests a mechanistic rationale for the clinical efficacy of intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) in treating CD40 ligand (CD40L) deficiency associated neutropenia as it is the first reported instance of free and cell-bound antineutrophil antibodies in a case of CD40L deficiency, accompanied by a prolonged and clinically severe neutropenia.</p