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…
Two policy papers relevant to research and innovation have been published in Iceland in recent months. By Þorvaldur Finnbjörnsson, RightNow Last year the Science and Technology Policy Council…
Professor Johan Schot is the director of the Science Policy Research Unit, SPRU, at the University of Sussex – considered one of the leading thinkers on how radical…
Norway has an advanced, well performing knowledge, research and innovation system. Still, key actors in the system sense that major challenges have to be addressed, on the one…
Forskningspolitikk took the opportunity of the visit of Stefan Kuhlmann and Jakob Edler in Oslo on the occasion of the «Grand challenges research policy” conference to have a…