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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This thesis’ aim was to explore the diffusion of the internet, and which capabilities were necessary to successfully diffuse the technologies in low- and middle income countries. The thesis is a panel data analysis of ...

This thesis investigates the legislation on food waste in Norway. Approaching this issue the thesis will introduce the concept of food waste through presenting a definition of the term, and looking at the social, environmental, ...

Energy use in buildings is a significant contributor to climate change. The purpose of this paper is to explore industrial changes towards sustainability in the Norwegian construction industry, adding to debates about ...

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. ...

Do the additionality effects of R&D tax credits vary across sectors? The paper presents a micro- econometric analysis of this question for three countries: Norway, Italy and France. We use a panel of firm-level data from ...

The promotion of conservation agriculture (CA) for smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa is subject to ongoing scholarly and public debate regarding the evidence-base and the agenda-setting power of involved stakeholders. We ...

This thesis follows a project initiated by a group of Norwegian medical researchers and entrepreneurs with an aim of providing birth attendants worldwide with accessible training in simple medical techniques through the ...

This paper follows up on recent debates on relations between technological innovation systems (TISs) and context. Particular focus is placed on the role of established industries, which possess important resources for TIS ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

This article provides an overview of the literature on demonstration projects and trials, and accounts for how insights drawn from this literature can contribute to the development of a sustainable bioeconomy. The article ...

The notion of ‘Responsible Research and Innovation’ (RRI) has within the space of a few years gained increasing momentum in research and innovation policy discourse. This thesis looks into the case of the European Union, ...

Diversity has been an important topic of research for some time in higher education, though the purposes underlying this attention have varied across national and regional contexts. In many parts of the world, the term ...

This paper presents a new taxonomy of green innovators. Using firm-level data from the Korea Innovation Survey, this paper investigates different types of eco-innovations, how these relate to each other, and what their ...

Car sharing is an emerging innovation that may contribute to a transition to a more sustainable mobility system. Although it does not represent a radically new technology, car sharing challenges the foundations of the ...

Over the last century, Paraguay was among the top countries worldwide regarding absolute and relative natural forest loss. According to FAO data, in 2011 66.8% of GHG emissions in Paraguay came from landuse change and ...

Produktivitetskommisjonens andre rapport har bidratt til å aktualisere en debatt som handler om hva som gir høyest kvalitet – tematisk bestemt forskning eller fri forskning. Denne oppgaven handler om hvordan forskning blir ...

This paper explores how countries in non-leadership positions can couple onto globally developing technological innovation systems (TISs) for renewable energy. The paper contributes to recent debates on relations between ...

This paper employs the concept of policy networks to study how interest groups and actors compete over the influence of energy and climate policy. It is argued that the creation of learning arenas is critical for the ...

The capability concept is commonly used in analyses of firms; however, as this paper shows, it may also be used at the level of nations. Factor analysis is used on a broad set of relevant indicators to derive composite ...

The aim of this article is to complement research on transformations towards sustainability by drawing upon the innovation systems (IS) framework. The IS framework already serves as a suitable and influential basis for ...

Drawing on case studies in 12 Norwegian municipalities, this paper investigates how local context matters for developing national climate adaptation policies that are applicable at the municipal level. Moreover, it explicates ...

This article assesses how science–policy interactions are conceptualized in the social sciences with special reference to climate change and the IPCC. In terms of the dimension of distance (or proximity) between science ...

We ask whether academic employees with non-academic work experience differ from their colleagues with respect to interaction with external stakeholders and research performance. We use a science and technical human capital ...

This article investigates the construction of laboratory animal science as a version of “good science.” In the 1950s, a transnational community of scientists initiated large-scale standardization of animals for biomedicine, ...

During the last two to three decades policy-makers have increasingly became concerned about the role of innovation for economic performance and, more recently, for the solution of challenges that arise (such as the climate ...

Purpose: This paper investigates how a combination of diverse sources of knowledge is important for the generation of new ideas, and it addresses how institutional infrastructures and practices support integration of ...

The case of SMS Application-to-Person in Norway documents how SMS has re-emerged as a significant channel for customer dialogue: SMS is increasingly used for everything from dentist appointments to communicating with tax ...

I et samfunn med en demografisk aldring og stadig høyere forventninger om effektivitet og kvalitet i helse- og omsorgstjenestene er det behov for å tenke nytt rundt hvordan helse-og omsorgstjenestene er organisert og ...

I et samfunn med en demografisk aldring og stadig høyere forventninger om effektivitet og kvalitet i helse- og omsorgstjenestene er det behov for å tenke nytt rundt hvordan helse-og omsorgstjenestene er organisert og ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Norske myndigheter har interesse for innovasjon i helsesektoren. Regionale og lokale helseforetak ser i tillegg på innovasjon som en strategi i møte med nåværende og fremtidige helseutfordringer. Litteraturen på innovasjon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We propose that foresight can contribute to inclusive development by making innovation systems more inclusive. Processes of developing future oriented innovation policies are often unsuccessful and rarely inclusive. We ...

What is the central research activity in modern universities? This paper uses a comprehensive survey among individuals from 15 countries to map differences in orientation towards basic/fundamental research, applied/practical ...

This thesis explores the role of simulator training in the development of local skills in the Brazilian offshore maritime sector. In addition, the effect of policy promoting the use of local workers and education on skills ...

In order to be an efficient and relevant intergovernmental organization, United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF) has since 2007 made the innovation turn and has become a leader in innovation activity in the UN body. The ...

The ongoing technological revolution accelerates the globalization process and reduces the information differential all over the world. In the era of knowledge economy, companies must nurture a few competencies in the race ...