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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
While petroleum production and industry actors have received much attention when it comes to environmental issues, market alterations and geopolitics, less heed has been directed towards the specific accounts of reality ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
The increased importance of datafication in different domains of society, and health in particular, has generated much attention in STS, specifically in the Nordic context. While much of this literature tackles newly ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Background: Achieving impact of research is often seen as requiring productive interaction between researchers and stakeholders. Still, interactions are sometimes not ‘productive’ and lead to no visible impacts.
Aims ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
A key challenge to achieving a net-zero transition by mid-century is rapid diffusion of several low-carbon technologies which requires massive upscaling of production capacity including vast use of material resources. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
A key ambition in care studies has been to study care in practice and as practice. By turning towards practices, care studies has rendered visible and acknowledged important work that is not captured through looking at ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
This study examines the relationships between traffic safety innovations, innovation culture, and safety culture in four Norwegian county authorities three years after a comprehensive structural reform. Following the reform, ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Commissioned research is a valuable source of research-based knowledge in the central administration. However, commissioned research differs from other research in that commissioners can add detailed guidelines for what ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
Science and science communication are considered crucial to respond to global crises such as climate change or pandemics. At the same time, debates about the role of online communication in the dissemination of scientific ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Avhandlingen undersøker et kjent norsk naturfenomen i et historisk perspektiv, de høye fossene, som har fått mye oppmerksomhet i det moderne Norge, men av ulike grunner til ulike tider. Fra et tidlig tidspunkt ble de ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Medical research and innovation to meet urgent demands in society is crucial, but the process contains many challenges. Moreso, impacts from medical research and innovation can take many years to materialise, not least ...
Transition work by incumbent electricity actors – a study on incumbents engagement with flexibility resources in Norway Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Background
A sustainability transition in mobility is dependent on a transition away from a fossil fuel-based automobility regime. Smart charging, in the form of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) has been presented as ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Over the past decade, the field of project management has increasingly focused on understanding the balance between two distinct forms of learning within megaproject organizations: one centered on exploiting existing project ...
Preserving the past in the digital age: an inquiry of the impact of digitization on museum object preservation Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
This thesis springs from the observation that a sustainability transition in urban passenger mobility is taking place in parallel with the processes of climate change and digitalisation. However, surprisingly little is ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Digital transformation is a dominant topic globally. The rise of digital firms, the “born digitals” benefit from technological affordances, and threatens the survival of successful existing firms. Traditionally, the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The transition to a low-carbon society is becoming increasingly important in the face of climate change. Lithium-ion batteries are central to this transition, essential for electric vehicles, green maritime vessels, and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This paper investigates the relationship between digital skills of the workforce and income inequalities within regions. By combining three databases – EU-LFS, EU-SILC and ESCO – the analysis studies the relationships ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Sammendrag I en skiftende verden med stadig økt fokus på matsikkerhet og lokal produksjon står bonden i midten med et ansvar og et ønske om å bidra. Implementering av ny teknologi er et viktig hjelpemiddel for en mer ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i hvordan staten forsøker å innarbeide klimahensyn i vurderingen av nye oljefelt, og hvordan saken gikk fra å være en klimasak til å bli et omdiskutert og teknisk spørsmål om energimarkedet. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
For å begrense den globale oppvarmingen, trengs det omstillinger i flere sektorer. Byggsektoren har et stort potensial for utslippskutt, og mer klima- og miljøvennlige løsninger i både nye og eksisterende bygg er dermed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Research integrity is fundamental to the validity and reliability of scientific findings, and for ethical conduct of research. As part of PRINTEGER (Promoting Integrity as an Integral Dimension of Excellence in Research), ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This chapter aims to present an overview of how anthropologists study bureaucracy and why that approach has value to the World Bank and its interlocutors. Anthropologists are most commonly associated with immersive ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Digital platforms are data-driven firms that mediate transactions online. Effectively, platform markets are monopolies driven by network effects and “winner-take-all” outcomes. Only a few countries, such as China and the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
In the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022 (Børringbo, 2022), a new wave of information chaos swept across social media platforms. False narratives, misinformation, disinformation, and war propaganda ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The rapid deployment of shared dockless electric scooters (e-scooters) has resulted in attention from the public and regulators. Recurring issues include fleet size and the number of operators in the market. In this paper ...
Innovation and long-term planning in public policy: the case of national road safety plans in Norway
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Vision Zero was adopted as the long-term ideal for transport safety in Norway in 2001. Starting in 2002, national road safety action plans covering a period of four years have been developed. This paper identifies innovative ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The chase to meet a zero-emission transportation sector is currently unfolding. However, the heavy-duty segment is proving more challenging than the passenger vehicle segment, where BEVs have already gained a significant ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne kvalitative casestudien undersøker elleve ulike skandinaviske aktører i den internasjonale skipsfartsindustrien som strategisk arbeider med digital transformasjon og digitale teknologier. Ved å se nærmere på ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The growing attention to the political goal of achieving net-zero emissions by mid-century reflects past failures to alter the trajectory of increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As a consequence, the world now needs ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract By the mid-1960s, nonhuman primates had become key experimental organisms for vaccine development and testing, and was seen by many scientists as important for the future success of this field as well as other ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract This study explores how papers published in international journals in palliative and end‐of‐life care report ethical approval and informed consent. A literature search following PRISMA guidelines was conducted in ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Dette kapittelet rapporterer fra en intervjustudie av NTNU Cyborg-prosjektet, hvor forskere kombinerer elektronikk og menneskelig materiale. Prosjektet har fått mye medieoppmerksomhet og har blitt brukt av universitetet ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
With the increasing trend of digitalisation in the health sector, eHealth is being deployed to facilitate interaction between health professionals and service users without physical contact or close proximity. It became ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Det forventes i økende grad at forskere skal kommunisere med resten av samfunnet om arbeidet sitt. I dette kapittelet diskuterer vi et forsøk på å trene forskere i å gjennomføre denne typen dialog med utgangspunkt i tanker ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
While nexus research in sustainability science has investigated the consequences of connected systems, it has paid less attention to the processes of building nexuses which is becoming increasingly important in low-carbon ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Makt- og demokratiutredningen konkluderte for 20 år siden med at det norske folkestyret er under press som følge av blant annet rettsliggjøring, markedsretting og overnasjonal styring. Samtidig påpekte utredningen at Norge ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This paper addresses the role of innovation policy, including regulation, in the transition to a society characterized by net zero emissions of climate gasses. A broad range of policy-actors, notably the European Union, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I dagens samfunn står Norge overfor en utfordring der unge mennesker faller utenfor utdanningssystemet, arbeidsmarkedet og sosiale arenaer. Dette omtales som ungt utenforskap, og påvirker både enkeltpersoners livskvalitet ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Despite Norway’s heavy presence in the petroleum industry Norway are highly committed to climate goals. Norway is in the process of electrifying the country and hydropower secure much of the required energy. However, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
In 2021 the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment wrote a report to the Storting (White Paper) on the efforts needed and the possibilities the country has when it comes to actions to handle the climate issue. It ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis is an analysis of a selection of documents that introduced a strategic direction for digital transformation in Norwegian higher education. These documents imagine the future of higher education where digital ...
Decoding the AI Black Box: An analysis of XAI as Responsible Innovation in the Norwegian Financial Sector Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Tech Meets Timber Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Shared E-scooters in Oslo Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This paper advances the concept of niche shielding in sustainability transitions studies by refining it as a dynamic process that evolves through niche-regime interactions. It contributes to the existing literature by ...
Between Punishment and Help: Sociomaterial Trajectories of the Drug Issue in Norway Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Bærekraftig forretningsdrift har mange ansikter: En kvalitativ casestudie av hvordan et firma jobber med sine interessenter i arbeidet med bærekraft Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
A large part of the academic literature sits behind a paywall, which is an obstacle for researchers in their pursuit of new knowledge, particularly at lesser funded institutions. The blame is often put on an outsourced ...
Brokers and Bottlenecks- A qualitative case study on how grid bottlenecks are delaying the sustainability transition in Western Norway Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
With increased attention to climate change and deliberate efforts to mitigate its cascading consequences, political goals on electrification put the grid infrastructure centre stage to lower CO2 emissions in Norway. In ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This chapter focuses on the role of demand-oriented innovation policies in supporting the global green shift. Three specific cases, all from Europe, in which change has been very quick indeed, are considered: wind energy ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions has entered regulatory agendas in shipping. In Norway, a debate has been ongoing for over a decade about whether liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship fuel enables or impedes the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The scale of food waste across Europe is alarming, and its reduction has recently been identified as an important public policy issue. However, effective solutions require initiative and action both from the government and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Objectives
The paper reviews the critical elements in the design and development of medical devices in general and orthopedic devices in particular as well as illustrates by means of examples the initiatives that have ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Purpose The purpose of this paper was to study how public regulation promotes or hinders openness in the food industry, specifically how European novel food regulation has affected external ties among novel food pioneers ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Recent literature has begun to discuss complementarities between sectors and technologies in the context of sustainability transitions. This paper contributes to this literature by theorizing complementarity formation ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Sammendrag Den internasjonale musikkbransjen har gjennom fire radikale perioder opplevd en digital transformasjon som har endret flere områder innen bransjestandarder, arbeidsmetoder og økonomi. Særlig den fjerde perioden ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Academic staff hold multiple identities by relating to the organization and to their profession. Merging higher education institutions involves organizational changes which may impact identities of academic staff. This ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The paper explores knowledge recombination by analysing how knowledge networks in established technological fields influenced the formation of the emerging field of green shipping in the period 2007–2018. Previous research ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion, 2022)
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This book is about nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia, focusing on selected sites of the Soviet atomic program, many of which have remained understudied. Nuclear operations, for energy or military purposes, demanded ...
Harvesting data to grow a sustainable pathway for food production: A qualitative case study of digital agriculture Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The mission to feed the world and protect the planet is inseparably bound with the critical task to make farming more productive and environmentally sustainable. However, as agriculture is vulnerable to climate impacts ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This chapter examines post-Soviet efforts to address the legacies of nuclear testing near Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, by tracing different modes of memorializing nuclear fallout. Similar to the construction of new monuments, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The literatures on productive interactions and related frameworks depict impact processes as collaborative efforts to permeate various boundaries between research and societal stakeholders. However, the impact literature ...
Artificial intelligence with artificial futures - A case study of Norwegian tech-firms and the developmental trajectory of a novel technology Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Technoscientific controversies have exposed the uncertainty of scientific facts, and that science cannot always provide the ‘solution’ to public issues. Public participation is meant to increase legitimacy of the outcomes, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
In the acceleration phase transitions often increase in depth and scope, and thereby create knock-on effects for wider system structures. In the renewable energy transition, for example, higher shares of intermittent ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Abstract Professors have multiple responsibilities and tasks. They should contribute to research, teaching and ‘third mission’ activities such as commercialisation of scientific knowledge and industry collaboration. These ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Considering intractable uncertainties and the wicked nature of many sustainability challenges, there is a need to both forecast and assess the potential for improvements in sustainability with new ventures. While it is ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The recent digitalization has transformed the way we do things in all areas of society, including education. The Norwegian school reform from 2020 integrated the use of digital tools in the curriculum, putting technological ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
In 2016, the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy was summoned to Oslo District Court by the environmental organisations Nature and Youth and Greenpeace Nordic. The legal proceedings that followed have since been ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Innovation policy is a relatively new field of politics. The term itself dates back to about 1980 but only became in frequent use around the turn of the century. Its increasing popularity is related to the spread of a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Abstract
Creating a culture for social innovation in universities can involve formalising and internalising processes that aim to support efforts towards using research results in society. This paper aims to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Social Practice Theories (SPT) can contribute to transition studies by deepening our understanding of the key social mechanisms and dynamics underpinning transitions in everyday life and the role of agency and collective ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Å få psykiske vansker eller lidelser er noe flere av oss kommer til å oppleve i løpet av livet. Samtidig vil kun en fjerdedel av oss få den hjelpen vi trenger når de psykiske plagene rammer oss. Regjeringen ser på ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
At kunnskap som produseres av det offentlige, skal gjøres tilgjengelig for storsamfunnet, blir en stadig viktigere politisk målsetting. Dette prinsippet har fremfor alt konsekvenser for akademia, som står i en særstilling ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Researchers have proposed a wide range of categorization schemes in order to characterize the space of VR locomotion techniques. In a previous work, a typology of VR locomotion techniques was proposed, introducing motion-based, ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This study explores the challenges of reporting societal impacts for ex post evaluation purposes. Our starting point are the challenges researchers meet when writing about narrative impact cases. We introduce a distinction ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
One of the major merits to Keith Tribe’s new introduction and translation of Weber’s Economy and Society is to re-place Weber, taking him out of the firm grasp of (American) sociology and releasing him onto alternative ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
This doctoral thesis investigates the role of practices in sustainability transitions. It draws on the multi-level perspective from transition literature and social practice approaches to analyze car-sharing practices and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Strategic basic research is a novel concept evolves along with the historical development and understanding of what constitutes as basic research. It evolves from the interactions among different communities and their ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Aldri før har politikere stått overfor så omfattende utfordringer som de gjør i dag, noe klimakrisen er et skremmende godt eksempel på. Det kreves en fundamental endring av tankesett for å løse globale utfordringer. Et ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Digitalization is a macro-trend affecting every sector, albeit in different ways. We study the process of digitalization of the public mental care system, by analyzing the case of the introduction of a new digital technology, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
I et samfunn hvor store deler av befolkningen stadig blir eldre er det varslet at flere også vil få påvist kreft i årene som kommer. Flere vil leve med kreft enn tidligere, og dette legger føringer for å bygge oppunder et ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This review examines the alleged crisis of trust in environmental science and its impact on public opinion, policy decisions in the context of democratic governance, and the interaction between science and society. In an ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The urgency of sustainability transition requires large incumbents in the food industry to implement sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI). However, the high concentration of the food sector and the complexity of the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Denne avhandlingen skal utforske hva slags rolle norske mobiltilbydere har når det kommer til bærekraftig forbruk (BF) av mobiltelefoner. Avhandlingens formål er å bidra til debatten av konseptet BF i relasjon til en ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Missions-oriented innovation policies have received increasing attention by scholars and policymakers in recent years. Proponents of the missions-framework argue that transformative innovation policies are needed to address ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This chapter interprets the transition to a more sustainable type of growth as a technological revolution in progress. The chapter opens with a general discussion of the role of technological revolutions and structural ...