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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
In this thesis I investigate innovation processes on innovation platforms, and look at the role played by content release for innovation in digital distribution of home entertainment. I argue
that innovation platforms rely ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Norsk narkotikapolitikk er bygget på et sterkt ideologisk fundament, basert på en sosialfaglig forståelse av avhengighet, sterk behandlingsoptimisme og en målsetning om et narkotikafritt samfunn. Medikamentell behandling ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Denne masteroppgaven studerer hvorvidt og hvordan digital fildeling har påvirket innovasjon i musikkbransjen i Norge. Digitalisering som truende teknologi for musikkbransjens tradisjonelle virke, har i nyere tid vært ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Denne studien utforsker hvordan teknologiutvikling foregår i en privat-offentlig innovasjonsprosess. Den belyser hva som skjer i samspillet mellom involverte aktører i et pilotprosjekt i Oslo kommune. Prosjektet handler ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Dagens samfunn er preget av en ekstremt hurtig vitenskapelig og teknologisk utvikling, der stadig flere produkter av vitenskap tas ut av laboratoriene og inn i den virkelige verden. Prosessene som forbindes med denne ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Studien undersøker prosessen bak Levende Skog-standarden og har som mål å bidra til en forståelse av hva som skjer i den sosiale prosessen der standarden utvikles og revideres. Gjennom å kombinere teoretiske verktøy, som ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
I denne masteroppgaven har jeg undersøkt bruken av ekspertise i fiskeripolitiske avgjørelser, gjennom et casestudie av en konkret sak – innføringen av strukturkvoter i den norske kystflåten. Oppgaven er skrevet innenfor ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
I study Statoil‟s use of international technology transfer (ITT) and corporate social responsibility (CSR), and ways in which the two business functions interact within Statoil. Some reflections are made on how the academic ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Energieffektiviseringstiltak utgjør ifølge International Energy Agency 65 % av den nødvendige reduksjonen av CO2-utslipp frem mot 2020 for å kunne stabilisere den allerede høye konsentrasjonen i atmosfæren. Bergen Kommune ...
Demonstration projects in technological innovation systems: The case of passive houses in Norway Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Energy efficient buildings represent a clever and cost efficient strategy to reduce energy consumption and thereby greenhouse gas emissions. The thesis seeks to understand to what extent demonstration projects are successful ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
There is a growing interest in the service sector in industrialized countries due to its increasing employment share, contribution to economic growth and internationalization patterns. While the service innovation literature ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
The system approach developed by Christopher Freeman can arguably be fruitfully applied to explain and understand the systemic interdependencies of technology, economics, and social change, a framework deduced from Joseph ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
I present two linked arguments related to the ongoing discussion in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) concerning how expertises should be classified in connection with science-related disputes. My first ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
The study of mergers and acquisitions represents a broad interdisciplinary field of research. Mergers and acquisitions are ever present in the corporate world, and they have become an increasingly important part of corporate ...
Standardization as an Innovation Strategy: Bringing down the Costs of Offshore Wind Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis links the theoretical framework of technological innovation systems to standardization and standards arguing that there are analytical benefits in integrating these theoretical perceptions within the literature ...
Climate Science at the Policy Interface : the IPCC and its Critics Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis seeks to explore the field of climate change in the nexus between science and policy, exemplified by a case study of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This assumingly established ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Student organizations have two utilities; one social and one educational, but only the first of these utilities see national and common focus. This thesis will present the second, educational, utility and will find a role ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
This paper presents a timely analysis of participation in the 8th European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (EU FP) Horizon 2020. Our dataset comprises the entire population of research organizations in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
I 2002 og 2003 kom det endringer i henholdsvis universitet og høyskoleloven og arbeidstakeroppfinnelsesloven. Denne teksten ser på ulike diskurser knyttet til disse endringene gjennom rasjonell rekonstruksjon som metodisk ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2001)
Oppgavens tema er daglig bruk av informasjonsteknologi i samarbeid. Det som studeres er et gruppevare-system (Lotus Notes) i Norsk Hydro; et system som i hovedsak omfatter e-post og informasjons- og diskusjonsdatabaser av ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
At the Barcelona Meeting in March 2002, the EU member-states agreed upon a common policy goal to increase expenditures for research and development to 3% of GDP by 2010. In 2005 this target was also adopted by the Norwegian ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
Much of the existing literature on the Internet centres on a binary classification of
haves and have-nots. I have chosen instead to focus on the difference in Internet
use and skills and a more broadly interpreted notion ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Solar cells have the potential of contributing to a larger share of total energy production being based on renewable energy sources. The technology has several advantages, but despite these the increasing contribution to ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
This thesis is about understanding causes of vulnerabilities leading to specific type of accidents on offshore oil and gas installations. Blow-out accidents have disastrous potential and exemplify accidents in advanced ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Oppgaven handler om hvordan visjoner og mål for bærekraftig byutvikling er fanget opp i utviklingen av den nye bydelen i Bjørvika i Oslo. Undersøkelsen er basert på intervjuer med planleggere, prosjektledere, arkitekter ...
An Information society for all : a European reality? Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2000)
This text aims to evaluate the potential realisation of the European Commission's initiative ìeEurope, an Information Society for all", focusing on the role of technology in relation to societal change and development. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2000)
Information appears to be a symbol of the world we live in, what to make of this symbol has, however, been a source of controversy. Many European researchers argue that we find ourselves in a ‘ Information Society’ where ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
This thesis aims to increase the understanding of the formative phase of an evolving technological innovation system (TIS) related to second generation (2G) biofuels in Norway. Large uncertainties and high risks are ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Som en del av et større prosjekt ved senter for Teknologi, innovasjon og kunnskap, er dette en casestudie basert på oppfatningene av begrepene kommersialisering og kunnskapsspredning blant de ansatte ved Universitetet i ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Modern society is characterized by the growth of new, technologically manufactured risks which follow human progress and innovation. Nuclear technology is an example of such human-induced sources of risks. Nuclear risk or ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Denne oppgaven har som formål å forstå faktorer som er viktige for teknologibaserte oppstartsbedrifters utvikling. Det er mange usikkerhetsfaktorer rundt det å etablere en bedrift, og majoriteten feiler i løpet av de første ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Straw bale building is an environmentally friendly building technique that has not yet reached the broad masses of the population. This thesis seeks answers to why straw bale building has not diffused more, using Everett ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Luksusprodukt eller rovdyr? - En studie av en offentlig utredning og dens rolle i kontroversen om pelsdyrnæringen i Norge Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Kunnskap er ofte en tungtveiende faktor for politiske beslutninger, og det er derfor vanlig å benytte seg av utstrakt kunnskapsinnhenting og -produksjon for å legitimere politiske prosesser. Denne praksisen kan synes å ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Banebrytende innovasjoner endrer, som oftest, bedriftens omgivelser radikalt og det kan være vanskelig å oppdage disse endringene tidsnok. Ved å ha endringsevner, dynamiske kapabiliteter, kan bedrifter reagere på og håndtere ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Utdanningssektoren er avgjørende for å sikre den enkeltes velferd og Norges konkurransekraft i fremtiden. På enkelte felt leverer ikke sektoren til samfunnets forventninger og behov. Blant annet er det mange elever som ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Denne oppgaven er en kvalitativ casestudie av hva som driver innovasjons- og implementeringsprosesser i helsesektoren. Siden dette emnet har et bredt forskningsområde, har jeg avgrenset det til utvikling innenfor ett ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
I straffeloven av 1902 innførte man et blandet prinsipp for utilregnelighet. På den ene siden satte man et medisinsk kriterie – sinnssykdom – som et umiddelbart utilregnelighetsgrunnlag for enhver straffbar handling. På ...
Investment in the Norwegian main grid: Changing logic? Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Tragiske dyreepidemier som kugalskap og munn- og klovsyke rettet for alvor søkelyset på den industrialiserte dyreproduksjonen. Disse tragediene bidro til å skape kontroverser som ikke bare dreide seg om dyrevelferd, helse ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Denne studien omhandler den norske regionale innovasjon- og forskningspolitikken, i lys av den nye ordningen med Regionale forskningsfond (RFF) som kom med den skrinlagte regionsreformen fra 2010. Det antas at kunnskap om ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
To eliminate the problems of climate warming, several countries have devoted a great deal of time and money to reduce CO2 emissions by replacing combustion energy power plants with cleaner technologies such as wind, hydro ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
I et samfunn med en stadig større andel pleietrengende eldre er det behov for nytenkning rundt organisering av kommunale pleie- og omsorgstjenester. Velferdsteknologi trekkes ofte frem som avgjørende for å klare å møte den ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Ny teknologis betydning for personvernet har blitt betydelig problematisert, helt fra personvernsteoriens spede begynnelse og til dagens samfunnsdebatt. Imidlertid har det funnet sted svært lite forskning på hvordan ny ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
R&D policy instruments, such as subsidies and tax incentives, have the objective to increase private firms R&D investments, and hence the economic performance and competitiveness of national innovation systems. Norway, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Denne oppgåva er eit forsøk på å setje Senter for teknologi og menneskelige verdier (TMV) inn i ein idehistorisk kontekst. Senteret eksisterte frå 1988 til utgangen av 1998. Eg meiner det er interessant å trekke fram måten ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
Prior research on innovation covers a variety of important topics at the firm level. This thesis contributes to this line of research by focusing on a few major issues about “innovation in firms”, i.e. heterogeneity, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The carnivore issue has been a much debated issue in the Norwegian public for well over a century. After a longer period of trying to eradicate the animals through government issued shooting rewards from the middle of the ...
Society at play: A study of everyday Big Data on the music streaming service Spotify Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This paper is a result of an investigation into a very popular Big Data service: The music streaming service Spotify. In music streaming services there are frequent and automatic moderations of content in the form of for ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Emerging technologies are not simply pursued out of economic interests, but also on the basis of assumptions about the societies and publics that technologies will serve. This paper compares how carbon dioxide capture and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Power from shore is a Norwegian climate mitigation strategy that is situated in the middle of the Norwegian paradox of being both a climate-nation and an oil-nation. In physical terms, power from shore, or electrification, ...
Scientific governance. A case study of the Keyhole labeling scheme Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis investigates the Keyhole-labeling scheme initiated by the Norwegian Government as a political strategy in order to improve public health and encourage the food industry to focus on product development. The ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
Does foreign aid work? Are aid funds spent as intended? These have been recurring questions for four decades, and they continue to spark heated debates. Yet how may we know whether aid works? What tools may help us see ...
The Issue of Privacy in the European Union - Controversies of the General Data Protection Regulation
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The processing of personal data has been one of the most widespread uses of computers ever since the invention of the first electronic tabulator. The issue of data protection has bubbled to the surface at several points ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
While climate change inaction is often attributed to self-interest and denial, the motivations for action and advocacy tend to be taken for granted. This asymmetry limits our understanding of how technological cultures ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Denne oppgaven utforsker den pågående kontroversen rundt det konsesjonssøkte vindkraftprosjektet på Siragrunnen utenfor Vest-Agder og Rogaland, og høringsrundene som har vært i tilknytning til dette prosjektet. Ved å gjøre ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This thesis explores innovation in the public sector at a sectoral-level as there is a perceived need for a more comprehensive public innovation approach – both theoretical and practical – in which the focus is shifted ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2000)
Throughout history features have been assigned to stretches of time in order to distinguish them from one another. These features have pointed to several different parts of life, although a lot of focus has been centred ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
EU expert institutions delivering policy advice about the promise of emerging technologies, help frame the issues that technologies might address. Their assumptions about European contexts for technology futures therefore ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Mer innovasjon i helsesektoren er en forutsetning for et godt helsetilbud for alle i fremtiden. Gjennom innovasjoner som bidrar til bedre pasientbehandling kan helsesektoren forbedres og effektiviseres. Sykehusene er en ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Denne masteroppgaven er en case studie av samarbeidsinnovasjon innen offentlig sektor. Oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i at helsesektoren står ovenfor store utfordringer blant annet relatert til en aldrende befolkning og et økt ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The European Union (EU) has decided to transform the energy sector into renewable energy technologies in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Sweden and Norway have established a bilateral green certificate system to ...
Bridging formal training and practical problem-solving in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: The case of DNV GL. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
During the last decades several scholars have strived to investigate how combinations of new and prior knowledge affect the innovative capability of organizations. One way these issues can be manifested is when organizations ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
For at Norge skal kunne opprettholde sin posisjon som et ledende kunnskapssamfunn, satses det fra myndighetene på flere kunnskapsfremmende virkemidler. Et av flere slike virkemidler er opprettelsen av regionale klyngeprogrammer, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
A case study of the development of gambling treatment at Blå Kors Senter. The aim of the paper is to learn something about innovation in the voluntary sector, in Norway.
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
The fields of innovation studies, entrepreneurship and science and technology studies are all relatively new additions to the academic landscape. Research on the development of these new fields has been undertaken, yet ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In the northeast of Kazakhstan more than 110 above ground nuclear explosions were carried out between 1949 and 1963. After the moratorium on atmospheric nuclear tests, underground nuclear testing was continued until 1989. ...
Sustainable development in times of economic crisis: A needs-based illustration from Granada (Spain)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This paper illustrates the importance of a balanced approach to sustainable development through the analysis of needs-based workshops in Granada, a Spanish city hit hard by the recent economic crisis. The workshops followed ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This case study investigates the interface between traditional agricultural sugarcane production and modern renewable energies generation in 21st century Cuba, a command economy in transformation. In the previous century ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Det sies at kunnskap er makt, og at politikken skal være kunnskapsbasert. Men hva skjer når aktører bruker samme kunnskap til å fronte forskjellige posisjoner? Ved å studere iskanten som sak, ønsker denne oppgaven å si noe ...
Organizations involved in Free Software have pioneered new ways of thinking about intellectual property, collaboration and elaboration. These organizations are bound together in varying degrees, through means of technology, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
A transformation of the energy system relies on a move away from burning of fossil fuels and the expansion of sustainable alternatives. This presents a challenge for fossil fuel exporting countries, but also opportunities ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Documents play a central role in rendering climate change governable, by bridging the perceived gap between the global climate system and the local politics, practices, and material realities that affects it. This ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
This paper studies how political conditions and external events influenced the rise and fall of offshore wind on the political agenda in Norway between 2005 and 2012. In this sense, the paper contributes to recent debates ...
Standardized flexibility : on the role of ICT in the Norwegian Employment and Welfare Services (NAV)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
I et samfunn, som i økende grad preges av omfattende endring, har evnen til å innovere blitt sett på som stadig viktigere. En av utfordringene ved dette kan være at innovasjon er et fenomen der det blir mer og mer tydelig ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Norsk næringsliv møter utfordringer i form av økte kostnader, svingninger i markedet og krav til fornyelser. Innovasjon er viktig for konkurranseevne og økonomisk vekst, og arbeidstakere er en viktig del av innovasjon i ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Although the bioeconomy has been embraced by many governments around the world as a way of responding to the grand challenge of climate change, it remains unclear what the bioeconomy is and how it can contribute to achieving ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This chapter examines the framing of the science system as in a series of crises and argues that the source of most, if not all, of them are governed by what can be described as the normativity crisis. This crisis is ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Within innovation studies, progress has recently been made on how pathways for socio-technical transitions are enacted through struggles between actors. The focus has been on the enactment of ongoing transitions, initially ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Technology has an effect on how people live, and how they work. By looking at workplace contestation processes, and the power asymmetries in these, this thesis seeks to answer how technology has constructed the modern ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Central America as a region has made world headlines mainly due to civil wars, insurgencies, and, more recently, drug-trafficking and youth gang violence. Central American enterprises are only rarely studied; even less so ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This thesis explores the complexity of innovation processes that occur in collaboration between companies, and in particularly the dynamic relationship between users and producers in innovation processes. The empirical ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Bedrifter i dagens samfunn står ovenfor globale utfordringer for å kunne møte den voksende etterspørselen etter varer og tjenester. Samtidig skal de sikre en bærekraftig vekst i de sosiale, miljø og økonomiske dimensjonene. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Kunsten og kulturen er tradisjonelt kjent for sin egenverdi, ved at det gir mennesket glede kun ved å være en del av menneskets liv. Kulturen har samtidig bli verdsatt på bakgrunn av dens nytte som sosialt lim og som ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
Forlengs, sidelengs og baklengs Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)