The technical-industrial research institutes in the Norwegian innovation system

This paper analyses the role of technical-industrial research institutes for industrial innovation in Norway. Using statistical data and a survey among firms, the paper shows that there are many different types of interaction between institutes and firms. In addition to R&D and technical services, the institutes are a significant source of skilled manpower for firms. We highlight three central roles for the institutes: they are a learning partner for industry, they help increase absorptive capacity, and they constitute a flexible repository in the innovation system by helping firms in peak periods and by reducing the pressure on universities through assisting in teaching and supervision.

Public sector research and industrial innovation in Norway: a historical perspective

This paper analyses the historical role of public research organisations for industrial growth and innovation in Norway – and the changes in this role over time. Public research organisations include research institutes and higher education institutions, and we go back in time to the 19th century. Like many other countries, Norway has a large number research institutes involved in innovation, and these organisations have an equally long history as higher education institutions. Public sector research has co-evolved with the national industrial structure, and institutes and universities have played central roles in developing high technology sectors and activities as well as in modernisations of traditional industries.

Partner Selection for Open Innovation

In this article, we consider open innovation from the perspectives of: i) causation and effectuation, and ii) social networking. Our empirical evidence consists of a case study of a late-stage open-innovation project aimed at creating a hybrid ship that uses liquid natural gas and hydrogen as power sources. The results show that the effectuation approach is preferable to open innovation when the initiator of open innovation aims to keep sensitive information inside the closed group, when the initiator has established an effective team of representatives from other firms from earlier innovation projects, and when the participants are geographically close

Developing university innovation capacity: how can innovation policy effectively harness universities? Capability to promote high-growth technology businesses?

Some universities and departments have been very successful in stimulating university spin- off firms (USOs). This has persuaded policy makers and university administrators to devote considerable resources to improve universities' capabilities to promote USOs, but with little tangible results. Related research has considered why some universities contributes more to business innovation than others, but whether the majority of universities can become innovation hotbeds remains an open question. This paper takes a novel interdisciplinary approach integrating insights from two separate literatures, academic entrepreneurship and university management. We start by taking the firm’s perspective and seek to understand the challenges faced by USOs and how universities can assist these firms in developing their entrepreneurial competencies. The structure and main purpose of universities are very different from that of new technology businesses and the transition from being an academic research activity to become a commercial business activity poses challenges both for the university and the USO. Much research on universities’ entrepreneurial capability focuses on ‘what’ universities can do to support USOs at the expense of ‘why’ universities’ might choose to promote USOs when they are under many intense competing demands from outside. We explore not only what universities can do to support USOs, but also how universities experience USOs’ support demands, and the circumstances under which universities can develop capability to promote USOs. We address the barriers that arise between universities and USOs and discuss mitigating factors which support the competencies of USOs whilst at the same time meet the different university stakeholders’ needs

How academic entrepreneurship meets the university: university spin-offs in stakeholder networks

Some universities and departments have been very successful in stimulating university spin-off firms (USOs). It remains an open question whether this is due to unique abilities and circumstances or if it can be stimulated at many universities. This paper seeks to discuss this question by integrating insights from two separate literatures: academic entrepreneurship and university management. We start by taking the firm’s perspective to understand the challenges faced by USOs and how universities can assist these firms in developing their entrepreneurial competencies. After that we explore why universities might choose to use their scarce resources to support USOs when the main benefits for success are accrued by the spin-off rather than the university. Here we use a stakeholder perspective to suggest how academic entrepreneurship may be seen as universities’ developing service bundles to support an entrepreneurial ecosystem that goes beyond technical and financial support. We suggest a future research and policy agenda arguing for more emphasis on understanding the USO as a university stakeholder, with relationships to a wider stakeholder set, that in turn constitute an entrepreneurial ecosystem

Kjønnslikestilling for barnehagebarn. Hvordan arbeider pedagogene i barnehagen for å gi jenter og gutter like muligheter i barnehagehverdagen?

Problemstilling: Hvordan arbeider pedagogene i barnehagen for å gi jenter og gutter like muligheter i barnehagehverdagen?bachelor-v201

Evaluering av NTNU Technology Transfer

Med dette presenteres resultatene fra en evaluering av NTNU Technology Transfer AS (TTO), som er gjennomført på oppdrag av NTNU. Utgangspunktet for oppdraget, var NTNUs ønske om å få en helhetlig analyse av TTOs rolle innenfor NTNUs strategi for nyskaping, og som kunne brukes i en pågående prosess med videreutvikling av denne strategien. Av denne grunn er det lagt vekt på å diskutere hvilke muligheter det er for å utvikle aktiviteten i TTO, både ved en bedre tilrettelegging av rammebetingelsene for virksomheten, og ved en utvikling av virksomhetens strategi

Universities in external knowledge networks: particular roles for particular universities?

The paper addresses the key issue within the special track “One size does not fit all”: are there distinct ways that different kinds of universities interact with their environments at local, regional and national levels? In this paper, we begin from the critique in the call for papers in this track of what is termed a simplistic model of the universities’ regional enhancement role. The session seeks to explore how universities (or different tertiary level/higher education institutions) relate with other organizations in their environment in particular ways, depending on the particularities of both the regions and the universities

Gjør høy gjeld husholdningenes konsum mer sensitivt for økonomiske sjokk? En oversikt over empirisk litteratur basert på mikrodata

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Introduction: measuring the impact of arts and humanities research in Europe

The idea for a special section of Research Evaluation for measuring the impact or public value of arts and humanities research (AHR) emerged from the 4-year HeraValue project that started in 2009. HeraValue was funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) organization, a collaborative effort between more than 20 European research funding agencies to support transnational humanities research. The HeraValue project sought to explore how different stakeholders make implicit and explicit statements and judgements about the value of AHR. These research areas had seen persistent failures in the development of performance measures, a failure that might be damaging but could be explained by dissonances between different stakeholder groups