Social studies of science have for many years analyzed and demonstrated the key role of experiments to science and the making of facts. But what is the role of experiments in market work? And what, if anything, can we learn ...

Denne studien handler om metodikken for å implementere innovasjon i en tjenesteorganisasjon. Funn fra denne studien peker på en rekke faktorer som kan ha vært avgjørende for implementeringen av innovasjonen, i tidlig-, ...

It has been recently argued that the vast resources of established firms can potentially accelerate sustainability transitions. This paper contributes to the study of such possibilities by investigating the resource ...

Scientific results are largely the outcome of collaborative efforts, and research is often dependent upon attaining project funding through applications. Many funding agencies and research funding programmes require projects ...

This thesis explores firm diversification from the oil and gas (O&G) sector to the renewable sector, among Norwegian O&G service and supply firms. The purpose is to contribute to the debate of sustainability ...

Denne oppgaven handler om hvordan satsingen til det norske investeringsselskapet Ferd på forretningsområdet sosialt entreprenørskap former selvet feltet og verdien som skapes. Ved å gjøre en dokumentanalyse av Ferds ...

Mediehus over hele verden er inne i en rivende utvikling. Digitaliseringen i dagens samfunn har skapt forstyrrelser og utfordringer. Fremveksten av ny teknologi, en globalisert verden og mediekonvergens har ført til et ...

Denne oppgaven handler om moderne persontransport og forestilte framtider. Mer konkret handler det om verdier og visjoner for transport av mennesker, som nullvekstmålet, sømløshet og bevegelsesfrihet. Derfor handler oppgaven ...

Digital teknologi har de siste årene blitt tatt stadig mer i bruk innenfor utdanning. Dette har skapt muligheter for utvikling og forbedring av utdanningsfeltet, men også ført med seg usikkerhet rundt hvorvidt digital ...

This article investigates decisions taken at the project level in establishing and managing collaborative ICT projects under the European Framework Programme Horizon 2020. Based on interviews with project coordinators from ...

Countrysides all over the world are in decline and have been so for decades. The negative development of the Norwegian countryside, or districts, has been on the political agenda since the 1950s. Nevertheless, the districts ...

The idea of a global “carbon budget”—the cumulative amount of “allowable” carbon emissions to meet a global temperature target—has become established as a central concept in climate science and policy. As a concept explicitly ...

The digital transformation of today’s society has significantly changed the daily lives of individuals. Information and communication technologies have gained pervasive roles in everyday life. Yet, little is known about ...

Denne oppgaven handler om hvordan en visjon om et nytt personvern gjøres til lov, og hvordan denne visjonen gjøres til del av infrastruktur, teknologi og organisasjon. Oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i Personvernforordningen, ...

Sustainability transitions are long-term, multi-dimensional, and fundamental transformation processes, where systems are transformed to more sustainable ways of operation. As we now face environmental challenges due to, ...

Anxiety and depression are considered one of the main contributors to the burden of disease worldwide. In Norway, about half of the population suffers from mental health problems. The latter makes mental health illnesses ...

New green activities in regions tend to build on regional capabilities. This paper makes a first attempt to test the impact of political support for environmental policy at the national and regional scales, besides regional ...

This doctoral thesis investigates how emerging ICTs affect individuals’ expectations and their subjective well-being. It extends an extant literature that has been devoted to studying the economic effects of ICTs, such as, ...

This literature review focuses on valorization of bio-residuals from the brewery, dairy, slaughterhouse and forestry sectors. Bio-residuals are organic wastes, side streams, or residues that remain at the end of the ...

A transition to sustainability is a systemic shift in the way buildings are procured, produced and used, as well as how the built environment connects to the energy and mobility systems. This study focuses on the role of ...

Temporary contracts are increasingly used in academia. This is a major concern for non-tenured researchers, since weak job security may hamper job satisfaction. This paper presents an empirical analysis of the role of ...

When industrial robots are adopted by firms in a local labor market, some workers are displaced and become unemployed. Other workers that are not directly affected by automation may however fear that these new technologies ...

De senere årene har plast på avveie fått økt oppmerksomhet. Den enorme fremveksten og spredningen av plast har ført til at plast havner på avveie, og havet er spesielt rammet. Det påvirker det marine økosystemet svært ...

Bank- og finansbransjen befinner seg i en situasjon hvor utvikling av ny teknologi truer store deler av den tradisjonelle verdikjeden. Innføring av nye direktiver, endrede kundebehov og digitalisering av tjenester utfordrer ...

I Mars 2020, erklærte Verdens Helseorganisasjon (WHO) Covid-19 til å være en global pandemi. Det er ingen tvil om at Covid-19 pandemien har store konsekvenser for mange bedrifter. I en rapport fra oktober 2020 melder ...

This article investigates the role of practices in sustainability transitions. Employing a social practices approach, we analyze the reproduction of car-sharing practices and discuss its role in transitions to sustainable ...

This thesis is about how new digital technologies are formed and engaged as political governance tools and how they are used to govern populations. More specifically, it examines how new smartphone technologies have been ...

The relationship between age and well-being is U-shaped. One recent explanation for this empirical pattern is related to unmet aspirations theory, pointing out that optimism bias decreases life satisfaction at younger ages, ...

Ordinary political institutions such as parliaments remain under-explored in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the conceptual resources for studying politics are far less developed than for science. But sites like ...

Which types of policies are important in advancing sustainability transitions? Why and how do the preferences of some actors change? This thesis investigates the role of politics, policies and electricity market design(s) ...

Norway is in the unique position of being the only country in Europe that is a significant energy exporter of oil and gas, while its domestics energy needs are met by hydropower. This combination of renewable energy use ...

Denne oppgaven handler om hvordan et økonomisk objekt skrives frem og hvordan spesifikke deler av en ny økonomi verdsettes i praksis. Gjennom å bruke dokumentanalyse som metode har jeg forsøkt å svare på hvordan havet ...

Empirical evidence indicates that practices linked to reducing the environmental impact of travelling, heating, cooling and food consumption are compatible with high levels of wellbeing. More and more people are shopping ...

The electrification of road transport is contributing to the rapid growth of lithium-ion batteries on the market. This leads to the issues related to the scarcity of critical materials embedded in the EV battery technology, ...

Health care systems will face several challenges in the near future. Some relates to demographics, higher expectations and limited resources. Because resources are limited and the demand for health care services is high, ...

Working life has come to permeate every domain of life. Characteristics once thought to affect only the job domain have become important determinants of how people assess their daily lives. This article explores the influence ...

I denne masteroppgaven retter jeg oppmerksomheten mot møtet mellom teknologien og mennesket, nærmere bestemt unge voksne og sosiale medier. Formålet med studien er å løfte frem og studere åtte unge voksnes erfaringer med ...

Denne studien handler om innovasjonsprosessen i Asker kommunes satsingsprosjekt, Velferdslab. Målsettingen til prosjektet er å designe en ny modell for samstyring av tjenester til kommunens svakerestilte innbyggere med ...

Offentlig sektor står i økende grad overfor en rekke komplekse og tverrgående utfordringer som berører flere aktører, sektorer og politikkområder samtidig. For å bli i stand til å løse slike utfordringer, er offentlig ...

Hensikten med oppgaven min er å forklare dynamikken som driver utvikling av nye behandlingstilbud. Jeg skal forklare hvordan ulike kompetanse- og teknologiutviklingsprosesser er nødt til å kombineres gjennom innovasjonsprosessen ...

Flere nevneverdige aktører med tilknytning til delingsøkonomien har klart å forstyrre etablerte virksomheter og deres konkurranseomgivelser i bestemte markeder, men det er særlig ett selskap som tydelig har markert seg som ...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide new opportunities and new challenges for developing economies. ICT adoption, digitalization and automation provide formidable new opportunities in terms of increased ...

What produces the power of senior civil servants at ministries of finance, positioned at the top of the bureaucratic hierarchy? Max Weber has claimed that a hierarchical organization, meritocratic recruitment and procedural ...

This study explored incumbents’ roles in the transition towards the bioeconomy by examining what goes on inside firms, what strategies they practiced, and how these affected the way incumbents engaged in the transition, ...

This paper proposes two new indicators of related diversification applied to Smart Specialization. The indicators are useful monitoring tools to assess the initial conditions and evolution of the European regions (NUTS-2) ...

The EU’s energy transition has advanced rapidly over the last decade, with important implications for the policy landscape. Scholars have characterized the Emissions Trading System (ETS) and the Renewable Energy Directive ...

Greenhouse gas emission scenarios are key in analyses of human interference with the climate system. They are mainly produced by one category of computer models: Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). We analyse how IAM ...

Energy transitions have historically been slow often taking several decades. The current threat to human existence however calls for a more urgent deliberate, and global change of the fossil fuel based energy system. As ...

This paper contributes to recent developments in the literature concerning the need to destabilise existing industries. Challenging established industries through policy can be politically difficult. The purpose of the ...

Expertise in digital technologies is necessary, but rarely sufficient to generate digital innovation. The purpose of this paper is to explore how specialists rooted in digital and analog knowledge domains engage in ...

Bioenergy, mostly from wood biomass, is now widely seen as an important element in the efforts to tame dangerous climate change. At the same time, foresters and development specialists note that wood-based energy production ...

The welfare state is facing massive changes. An increasingly aging and diverse population and higher expectations of public services will put pressure on the public sector in the future. This will force the government and ...

I denne oppgaven studerer jeg forskningsformidling i Forsker Grand Prix (FGP), med fokus på forskeren i rollen som formidler i denne spesifikke konteksten. FGP er et tilbud til doktorgradsstipendiater, og arrangeres årlig ...

Incumbent firms are in general not likely to pursue disruptive business concepts and are often exposed to strong near-term pressures that discourage investments in new growth initiatives. Start-ups, however, exist naturally ...

The following thesis analyses 50 policy letters disclosed by the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board that portrait diverse visions from the public on deregulating GMOs in Norway. I assess these documents by interpreting ...

Context Antibiotic resistance is an increasingly serious threat to global health that requires coordinated action. Most current policy efforts address the lack of medicines. There is also a need for new thinking on ...

The use of car sharing has experienced rapid growth in recent years, but user-numbers are still low, and privately owned cars dominate. This paper studies how the use of car sharing contributes to altering the car system ...

The transition toward the bioeconomy concerns how firms innovate, especially how they utilize bio-based resources. This qualitative study explores how incumbent firms in a low-tech industry like food make use of technological ...

Norwegian authorities want to make sure the Norwegian Armed Forces get access to the best possible technological solutions catering to their operational requirements, maintain and advance Norwegian industrial capabilities ...

This thesis studies a small part of nature, the soybean, and how it is enacted and transformed in the reports the Norwegian NGO Framtiden i våre hender (FIVH). I analyze four of their reports, one published in 2008, and ...

Processes of enactment and classification of international crimes are at the forefront of this thesis, which seeks to investigate international criminal law as it is made. In the prosecution of the Bosnian Muslim commander ...

In recent years and across many nations, public health has become subject to forms of governance that are said to be aimed at establishing accountability. In this introduction to a special issue, From Person to Population ...

Focusing on a global hub of aviation, Frankfurt Airport, this essay examines encounters between animals and technology in airport operation. In order to understand how airport practices constantly negotiate the borders ...

The economic reforms implemented in Cuba since 2008 do not adequately deal with the structural issues that hamper the country's economic development. The article presents a system dynamics model to investigate Cuba's ...

The question of how regions and nations develop new sources of industrial growth is of recurring interest in economic geography and planning studies. From an evolutionary economic geography (EEG) perspective, new growth ...

While political environmentalism played an important role in social mobilization against communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe before 1989, throughout the 1990s and early 2000s conservationism appeared to be in ...

Reorientation of fossil fuel industries towards renewable energy, and the role of changes in organizational environment underlying such processes, have not featured strongly in the study of sustainable energy transitions. ...

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 ...

Masteroppgaven handler om måten målstyring gjøres i skolen igjennom informa- sjonsinfrastruktur som muliggjør dens måle-praksis; organisering og evaluering av undervisning og læring. I tillegg til å basere seg på et ...

The ‘blue economy’ has in recent years become a leading concept for envisioning what may come after the fossil-based era. In efforts at calculating the potential economic value of the ocean, policy-oriented documents seek ...

I dag står verden overfor store digitaliseringsutfordringer og -muligheter. Så langt har noen digitale plattformer vokst fram og blitt dominerende, slik som Google og Facebook. Disse har etablert mer eller mindre åpne ...

This thesis is a case study of public health innovation in the Oslo and Copenhagen regions. The two cases were chosen because they closely fit the ideal for a most similar systems design, as the Norwegian and Danish societies ...

Morgendagens helseutfordringer kan bare løses dersom norsk helsesektor tilpasser seg endringene som kommer. For å lykkes i omstillingsarbeidet må sektoren preges av evnen til lære og innovere. En arena der mye av dette vil ...

Et omstillingspress i norsk kraftsektor er et faktum som følge av ny teknologi som for eksempel elbiler, lagringsteknologi og solceller. Teknologien skaper både et mulighetsrom for kraftsektoren og nettselskapene til å ...

Hvordan bidrar innovasjon og teknologi til å omforme omsorg? Den siste tiden har teleomsorg fått en del oppmerksomhet både i politikken og mediene. Teleomsorg framstilles som en del av løsningen på dagens omsorgsutfordringer, ...

There is a broad scientific consensus that our current mobility system, characterized by automobility and the use of fossil fuels, is unsustainable. In cities around the world, sustainable mobility initiatives are experimented ...

In the recent national plans for healthcare, the concept of the patient as an equal partner is gaining traction. The principal idea is that empowering the patient will lead to more effective and accurate services, with ...