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Crises can lead to new opportunities

Crises can have a positive outcome for companies. When they see the challenges and changes in the environment as a new normal, they can use it as an opportunity to engage in more ambitious innovation efforts, finds Jakoba Sraml Gonzalez in her PhD project.

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Marte Mangset and Kristin Asdal win prize for best article Feb. 21, 2019
Kristin Asdal to visit Gothenburg University Feb. 21, 2019
Project workshop at Tøyen Hovedgård Feb. 21, 2019
GLOBOIL and SIVAC at Norway Brazil weeks Feb. 5, 2019

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"Interested Methods" and "Versions of Pragmatism" Feb. 22, 2019 10:22 AM

In this commentary, Kristin Asdal reflects on pragmatism as one of the methodological touchstones of Science, technology and society (STS). In its focus on practices, pragmatist STS can be prone to falling into a problematic presentism, obscuring the historicity of the practices being studied, and to falling into problematic material/semiotic binaries. But what does it take, in practice, to be pragmatic?
The green flings: Norwegian oil and gas industry’s engagement in offshore wind power Dec. 19, 2018 2:41 PM

Tuukka Mäkitie, Håkon E. Normann, Taran Thune og Jakoba Sraml Gonzalez have published an article about the fluctuating engagement of Norwegian oil and gas industry in offshore wind power in Energy Policy.