News from TIK

Many countries with abundant natural resources experience lower economic growth than countries with little or no natural resources. In the economics literature this is referred to as the "resource curse". One reason put forward is lack of technological progress. In a recent study, we have examined a related issue, that is, whether a resource curse may occur due to the wrong type of technological progress, write Greaker, Heggedal and Rosendahl.

Earlier this year, Osiris had the pleasure to welcome postodoctor Knut Jørgen Vie to the team.

We are happy to share two publications that are the result of the BREAD project collaboration with the Norwegian NGO Matsentralen Norge (Food Banks Norway) in WP3.

Lars Wenaas is the first Osiris PhD candidate to submit his doctoral thesis. The thesis looks at the effects of open access. The public defense will take place at the University of Oslo on 11 November 2022.

Frauke Rohden, PhD candidate at TIK and part of the OSIRIS team, is in the final stages of her PhD work. In her thesis she looks at the role of informal science-oriented online activities for the diffusion, understanding, and use of scientific knowledge. We decided to ask Frauke some questions about her project.

Lecturer in Law Dr Carrie Bradshaw has been appointed as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oslo’s TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture.

Senterleder Taran Thune deltok i debatten arrangert av Innovasjon Norge under Arendalsuka, sammen med næringsminister Jan Christian Vestre, Kristin Skogen Lund (konsernsjef, Schibsted), Kristian Jul Røsjø (CEO, Antler Norway), Per-Ivar Nikolaisen (redaktør, Shifter), og Håkon Haugli (administrerende direktør, Innovasjon Norge). Moderator var Eva Camerer (direktør av strategisk stab, Innovasjon Norge). 

Authors of accepted papers will be invited for workshop in Paris. Read more here for details about the call and how to send in your submission!

On May 6th, Kristin Asdal spoke at the marking of the 50 year anniversary of the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment.

Read more here about what we did at the EGOS and EASST conferences in July 2022!

We have two recent additions to the INTRANSIT team. Amir Mirzadeh Phirouzabadi and Sabine de Graaff.

How does science make its way from academic research into society? There is agreement that the connection between science and society is not a linear or simple process. This blog post presents six perspectives on the complexity, long timespans and many different actors involved in scientific impact processes.

From June 1-3 2022, the Osiris team attended the yearly Eu-SPRI conference. This year’s theme was “Challenging Science and Innovation Policy” and the aim was to explore future directions for studies of Policies for Research and Innovation with a special emphasis on the topics of Digitization, Open Science and Futuring.

The conference season is upon us and INTRANSIT researchers are presenting work at several events this summer. Here is an overview of INTRANSIT's conference contributions.

As members of the STS community in Norway, we are thrilled to share that Sheila Jasanoff has been awarded the prestigious Holberg Prize for 2022 “for her pioneering research in the field of Science and Technology Studies” write TIK researchers Hilde Reinertsen, Tone Druglitrø and Ana Delgado.

A challenge in transitions is how to efficiently link research with policymakers' current issues, problems, and questions. With that in mind, INTRANSIT, the Norwegian Research Council, and the Ministry of Education and Research hosted a seminar for informal discussions between researchers and bureaucrats from different ministries.

After more than two years of zoom meetings, the Osiris consortium finally met physically again for a two-day meeting in Valencia, Spain. The meeting was hosted by Osiris partner INGENIO and took place at their offices at Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación.

Centre director, Taran Thune, has contributed to a new report on how missions can be used for tackling grand societal challenges in Norway.

We have an open position as PhD fellow in INTRANSIT. The position is connected to research stream 5 on innovation policy and sustainability transitions, and the place of work is the Center for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo.

INTRANSIT offers students access to a vibrant research community, the opportunity to work with and be supervised by leading scholars and industry partners, access to data and partners.

Hør senterleder Taran Thune i en paneldebatt om evolusjonær økonomi og innovasjons rolle i grønn omstilling.

Osiris is happy to welcome two new members to the team: Mayra Morales Tirado from University of Manchester and Gemma Derrick from University of Bristol.

In this newly published book, authors Kristin Asdal and Hilde Reinertsen  present a framework for studying documents that enables you to conduct a rich and systematic analysis of documents in all their diversity.

Q&A with Valuethreads project members Nassima Abdelghafour and Liliana Doganova about their recent fieldwork in French Guyana.