Technopolis and Samfunnsøkonomisk analyse have delivered a report to the Research Council of Norway on Norwegian innovation policy needs and challenges. The report calls for a «third generation…
In 2004 NIFU merged with STEP, becoming NIFU STEP, an institute that was to cover the whole width of knowledge creation and innovation. While NIFU had had its…
Here is part two of Forskningspolitikk’s interview with Dr. Jack Stilgoe, Senior Lecturer in Social Studies of Science at University College London. We talk about the negative and positive…
Science and technology is transforming both our societies and the environment, for good and for bad. The increased focus on societal and environmental challenges has led to a new…
This collection of essays is a culmination of many years of research on the economics of innovation and innovation studies. They mark Jan’s retirement from the TIK centre, …
Concepts structure how we perceiveand understand reality. Words are, in a word, performative. This also affects policy and the use of concepts like «Responsible Research and Innovation» and…
Robots and artificial intelligence have the potential to change the way we make and use things. This transformation pervades through the entire production chain, changing the way we…
Driven by the increased emphasis among funders – both national and international – on tackling complex real-world problems and conducting frontier research, Norwegian research institutions are increasingly pursuing…
UNESCO’s Riel Miller argues that in times like these it makes sense to take a step back and let new ideas about why and how to imagine the…
Þorvaldur Finnbjörnsson argues that moving research and innovation statistics from The Icelandic Centre of Research, Rannís, to Statistics Iceland has weakened the quality, as Statistics Iceland does not…