A recent report published by Food Banks Norway shows important findings related to food waste and poverty alleviation in Norway during the COVID-19 pandemic.
How can science have an impact on policy-making? In OSIRIS, we analyse the processes and conditions of research users to understand impact. Papers about the impact of science on policy-making often describe interactions between scientists and individual policymakers. While these are certainly important, the new OSIRIS discussion paper draws attention to the role of conditions in policy organisations.
The joint EASST/4S conference took place on 18-21 August - this year virtually.
OSIRIS researchers at Statistics Norway have published an article analyzing the impact of all major sources of direct and indirect R&D subsidies to industries in Norway during the period 2002-2013.
More R&D spending in Norway leads to higher productivity as firms improve their capacity to learn from other domestic firms as well as from firms in other countries. As a result, GDP, real wages and consumption will increase in the long run.
Spring 2020 has been different in OSIRIS, as everywhere else. But through digital spaces the team has in many respects been closer than ever before, and we had a successful consortium workshop 8-9 June.
TIKs forskningsprosjekt LITTLE TOOLS søker 1-2 vitenskapelige assistenter som kan jobbe 50-100% i perioden juni – desember 2020.
The ProjectSTEP group (also referred to as "Critical Friends" in the project's English description) is included in the project's RRI design and has now had its first meeting.
Kristin Asdal and Bård Hobæk write about parliamentary politics in new issue of Social Studies of Science.
OSIRIS is fundamentally about understanding the process through which research makes some kind of difference in society. These strange and dramatic times highlight why we need such knowledge. In our most recent blog post, we reflect upon how our work touches on the current coronavirus situation.
The blog post can be found here.
A PhD course on the bioeconomy was held in Oslo 9-13 December as part of the ERC Little Tools project.
TIK*s PhD candidate Henrik Schwabe has won the prize for best PhD paper at the annual meeting of the Norwegian Association for Economists.
Most likely yes, but removing barriers is not the same as opening the floodgates, says OSIRIS ph.d candidate Lars Wenaas.
Did you know that around one third of global food produced for human consumptions is wasted?
The Little Tools team met for two days of lively discussions on the project and works in progress.
On November 8th, professor Barry Bozeman (Arizona State University) visited the OSIRIS consortium meeting and gave a keynote speech titled Public values criteria in science policy and evaluation: Challenges of moving from theory to application.
On November 7th, Mireille Matt visited OSIRIS and gave a talk on real-time impact assessment.
On November 7-8, OSIRIS gathered for an intensive consortium workshop. Seven drafts for scientific papers were presented and reviewed, as well as several new ideas for upcoming papers and case studies.
Birthe Soppe, Taran Thune, and Jochen Markard are convening a track on "Sustainability Transitions: Bridging Systems and Organizational Perspectives to Tackle Grand Challenges" on the forthcoming EGOS colloquium in Hamburg in July 2020.
INTRANSIT researcher Tuukka Mäkitie defended his PhD thesis in innovation studies at UiO on 23 October 2019, amongst other things focussing on policy mixes to advance sustainability transitions in the norwegian oil and gas industry.
On October 23rd, INTRANSIT's Markus Steen held a workshop for the Research Council of Norway on innovation and green & smart restructuring.
The workshop was held at Tøyen in Oslo 14-15 October, with open lectures from invited speakers Eve Chiapello and Andrew Barry.
Little Tools postdoc Hilde Reinertsen participates in panel on our relationship to nature.
INTRANSIT is happy to announce a four-year postdoctoral positon to work on research on sustainability transitions and industrial transformations. The position is co-funded by INTRANSIT and FME NTRANS.
Kristin Asdal held a presentation on document analysis at a workshop on methods held in Trondheim, 17 September.