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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This master thesis studies how the issue of fact-checking has evolved in the Norwegian public debate. This thesis looks into the matter of how fact-checking became an issue in Norway. The public debate on fact-checking ...

The public discourse on artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly increasing, in tandem with faster-paced development in the field of artificial intelligence. With these advancements, multiple short- and long-term issues and ...

I et samfunn og en økonomi som i stor grad er låst i et karbonbasert energisystem, gjøres det stadig forsøk på å avdekke forhold som fremmer og hemmer en bærekraftig omstilling. Omstillingslitteraturen på innovasjonsfeltet ...

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 ...

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, ...

In the last year, high-quality face-swapped videos have started circulating on the Internet, showing faked situations of politicians doing odd speeches and celebrities performing in pornography. The videos and the surrounding ...

Ved å ta utgangspunkt i den norske satsinga på torskeoppdrett frå starten av 2000-talet har eg studert korleis natur vert inkludert i politikk og styringspraksisar. Eg har undersøkt korleis torskeoppdrettssaka vart forma ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier studies have concluded that television consumption is detrimental to environmental sustainability and people’s subjective wellbeing due to its promotion of consumerism and materialistic goals. However, recent ...

This article analyzes the determinants of job satisfaction among knowledge workers (KWs). Data from a representative sample of 14,096 employed workers from the European Social Survey (2010) are used for an empirical analysis ...

How does Internet use affect well-being? This paper presents a survey of the literature investigating this question, and it develops a framework to analyze both positive effects and potential risks. We point out four ...

This study presents an analysis of 2 216 European higher education institutions (HEIs) from 27 countries. It investigates determinants of participation in the European Union’s Framework Programme for research and innovation ...

Trafikksystemet i Oslo, som i resten av Norge, er preget av høy personbilbruk. I 2015 viste Samferdselsdepartementet til en prognose som tilsa at befolkningsveksten ville fortsette å øke i Norges hovedstadsregion ...

The smart grid concept contains technologies and innovations that can improve the sustainability, flexibility and efficiency of the energy system. However, the diffusion of these innovations is slow. Despite a vast literature ...

The development and deployment of clean technologies must be accelerated to avoid a more than 2-degree warmer world. Redeployment of the vast resources concentrated in established sectors is one possible way to advance ...

Norway is experiencing a demographic shift, caused by an ageing population. The shift will result in an increased proportion of inhabitants with chronic Non-communicable diseases (NCDs). One of the innovations tested to ...

The paper presents a new modelling approach for the study of co-evolutionary economic growth. The system dynamics model studies the interactions between four main dimensions: physical capital, R&D and innovation, human ...

The increasing needs in the humanitarian sector and the lack of funding to address these needs have led to a paradigm shift in the sector. Humanitarian organizations are increasingly focusing on innovation and emerging ...

When major waterfalls in Norway became possible to develop around 1900, a major step was achieved. The step was a major international technological leap paralleled with changes of established attitudes towards grand, and ...

Denne masteroppgaven ser på hvordan aktørers konkurrerende ideer og interesser har formet beslutningen om effekttariff. Dette er en pågående prosess internt i kraftbransjen. Målet er å endre måten nettleien prises på, slik ...

In this commentary, Kristin Asdal reflects on pragmatism as one of the methodological touchstones of Science, technology and society (STS). In its focus on practices, pragmatist STS can be prone to falling into a problematic ...

As interorganisational collaboration is increasingly seen as a crucial nexus of innovation by scholars and policymakers alike, it is important to investigate whether and in what way research collaboration networks affect ...

The amendment of e-cigarette regulations in Norway was an effect of an interference between the European Union Tobacco Products Directive and Norwegian legislation. This interference opened up a window for corporate, ...

This thesis explores how, through the patterns of expectations surrounding Bitcoin as how they were voiced by different actor groups (entrepreneurs, incumbents, knowledge institutions, policy makers, users, and the media), ...

This paper challenges Ed Barbier’s influential contribution to the resources and economic development debate and extends our understanding of the process of resource-based development in two relevant economies since World ...

Despite growing academic attention to the relationship between economic development and natural resources in social sciences, the issue has received rather limited attention in the field of Innovation Studies. This is ...

Policies and politics are crucial elements of sustainability transitions. Transition pathways unfold as a result of continuous struggles of actors over policy goals and instruments. Taking a policy mix perspective, we study ...

Smart Specialisation is closely associated with the concept of diversification. For a better understanding of Smart Specialisation, this paper examines one little-explored explanatory factor of technological diversification: ...

It has long been held that natural resource abundance retards economic growth. Studies using innovation system perspectives, however, suggest that natural resource abundance per se need not stand in the way of evolving a ...

Focusing on a successful local photovoltaic project in France, this paper retraces the emergence and constitution of a territorial capacity to take part in the development of renewable energy as driven by a private actor ...

Many science support mechanisms aim to combine excellent research with explicit expectations of societal impact. Temporary research centres such as ‘Centres of Excellence’ and ‘Centre of Excellence in Research and Innovation’ ...

There is no secret that organizations look for new sources of innovation. Previous research in innovation studies has long recognized the role of R&D and special departments as the source and drivers of innovation. At ...