In theire recently published article, OSIRIS researchers Magnus Gulbrandsen and Silje Tellmann present findings from a stdy that looks at repeated attempts by researchers to involve different stakeholders to facilitate pathways to societal impact.
Publications
In this article OSIRIS researchers Richard Woolley and Jordi Molas-Gallart propose a set of principles to guide a systematic approach to constructing user perspectives on research impact.
In this newly published report, Arvid Raknerud and colleagues revisit the estimation of private returns to R&D.
This paper, by Castellacci, critically reviews the concept of social welfare in the economics of innovation literature, and it outlines a new research agenda that will investigate the impacts of innovation on individuals’ well-being and aggregate social welfare.
The literature on sectoral systems of innovation evidences the crucial importance of sectoral specificities in innovation. Also, the proximity framework enables the exploration and analysis of how various actors establish collaborative ties. However, there has not yet been much cross-fertilization between the proximity literature and sectoral systems of innovation write Simensen and Abbasiharofteh.
In this paper Gundersen and colleagues examine the alleged crisis of trust in environmental science and its impact on public opinion, policy decisions in the context of democratic governance, and the interaction between science and society.
This paper, by Borlaug, Tellmann and Vabø, studies potential impacts on staff perceptions of their organizational and academic identities through a 2-year in-depth study of a merger between a large university and three university colleges in Norway.
Creating a culture for social innovation in universities can involve formalising and internalising processes that aim to support efforts towards using research results in society. This paper aims to contribute to the discussion on how the present higher education institution system promotes work with social innovation write Svennevik and Saidi.
In this newly published report, financed by Osiris, Mads Greaker and colleagues propose that abundance of fossil fuels can lead to the wrong type of technological progress.
Prior research identifies relatedness as a key driver of new specializations in the domain of green technologies. The present paper extends the evolutionary economic geography framework by focussing on digital literacy, write Santoalha, Consoli and Castellacci.
The interplay between science and society takes place through a wide range of intertwined relationships and mutual influences that shape each other and facilitate continuous knowledge flows. Stylised consequentialist perspectives on valuable knowledge moving from public science to society in linear and recursive pathways, whilst informative, cannot fully capture the broad spectrum of value creation possibilities, write OSIRIS researcher Richard Woolley and colleagues.
In this paper, Lars Wenaas and Magnus Gulbrandsen investigate how open access is reflected and implemented in all Norwegian universities and how they responded to national policy developments for open access in the period 2009–2021.
In this paper, OSIRIS researcher Arvid Raknerud and Øivind A. Nilsen, investigate firm dynamics in the period before, during, and after an event consisting of a first published patent application. The analysis is based on patent data from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office merged with data from several business registers covering a period of almost 20 years.
Silje Tellmann and Magnus Gulbrandsen look at boundary work in science-policy relations from the policy side and find that it has many of the same characteristics as the boundary work of scientists, and that it seems to follow certain cycles where boundaries are either defended or challenged. They conclude that boundary work is a constructive part of productive interactions that enables users to balance the diverse relations they engage in and create a strategic room for maneuvering.
This paper, by Jakob Edler, Maria Karaulova and Katharine Barker, presents a framework to understand the impact of scientific knowledge on the policy-making process, focusing on the conceptual impact.
Silje Tellmann analyses the interrelations between academic disciplines and society beyond academia by the case of sociology in Norway.
While research shows different links between activism and science, little is known about activists engaging in science communication online, writes Frauke Rohden. Demanding that decision-makers should “listen to the scientists”, the climate movements Fridays for Future (FFF) and Extinction Rebellion (XR) emphasize the role of scientific knowledge in democratic decision-making.
Many public agencies promote renewal in the public sector through projects that require a productive combination of research and innovation activities. However, the role of research in innovation processes is a neglected theme in the public sector innovation literature. Gulbrandsen and Høiland address this gap through an analysis of five cases from the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration.
Trade unions have received little attention in sustainability transitions research, despite their capacity to influence policy decisions. In this article, Normann and Tellmann present a study of how key unions in Norway, a country with a large petroleum sector as well as high union level density, have moved their preferences on transition issues in the period 2007–2019.
In this paper Saidi and Douglas review the critical elements in the design and development of medical devices in general, and orthopedic devices in particular. Furthermore, they illustrate, by means of examples, the initiatives that have been put in place to incorporate contextual factors in low resource settings.
This paper, by Lars Wenaas, studies a selection of 11 Norwegian journals in the humanities and social sciences and their conversion from subscription to open access, a move heavily incentivized by governmental mandates and open access policies.
In this book chapter Reetta Muhonen and OSIRIS researcher Silje Tellmann explore the challenges of reporting societal impacts for ex post evaluation purposes.
In this article OSIRIS researcher Brita Bye and Taran Fæhn study how more and better human capital can contribute to knowledge accumulation and structural change by means of a dynamic endogenous growth model, with Norway as a numerical case.
In this recently published article OSIRIS researchers analyse how tax credits stimulate R&D through the user cost of capital and how it impacts the economy in general via knowledge flows from R&D capital.
OSIRIS researcher Gry Høiland and Lars Klemsdal have published an article analysing how management at the strategic level, and professionals at the operational level, organize the complexity of contemporary professional work and services differently.