In this article Ella Maria Cosmovici Idsøe discusses the challenges that transdiciplinarity can pose to institutions of higher education. What kind of strategical measures should higher institutions adopt…
The conflict between the Chinese ICT company Huawei and the Trump administration tells us that innovation-policy can be part of a larger struggle for technological hegemony. By Mark…
The global challenges require learning and collaboration across disciplines, Ella Maria Cosmovici Idsøe argues in this article. By professor Ella Maria Cosmovici Idsøe, Naturfagsenteret, Universitetet i Oslo What…
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…