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“Bringing Responsibility to Firm Practices: Strategies and Challenges”
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Fitjar is a professor in innovation studies and comes from the position of Vice-Rector for Innovation and Society at the University of Stavanger. He will assume the role as head of the Center for Innovation Research (CIR) on August 1st.
Heating and cooling in buildings and industry are responsible for half of energy consumption in Europe. They have also put a severe pressure on the Norwegian electricity grid. There is a lot of waste heat released from data centres and other industrial processes in Norway, which is poorly mapped and utilized.
CIIP’s goal is to become an international leading research centre with the primary objective to analyse how technological change and disruptive innovation are changing societies and their production systems – and how this is resulting in economic (low productivity growth, unsecure employment), social (inequality) and political (discontent) challenges in Europe and the USA.
Future Literacy Lab on digital healthcare was carried out on 8 October 2021 in collaboration between NIFU and UiS as a part of the research project “Releasing the power of users: articulating user interest to accelerate new innovative pathways in the digital health and welfare sector”.
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Associate Professor and Head of Centre for Innovation Research, Marte C. W. Solheim at the University of Stavanger Business School is awarded the Stavanger-region Chamber of Commerce Award for Competence Sharing for 2021.
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The Research Council of Norway is awarding NOK 28 million to a project entitled Biocircle: Increased Innovation Capacity and Innovation Rate for Circular Economy in Western Norway. This project is a collaborative venture between Norce, the UiS, the UiB and several businesses.
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Several researchers from the UiS Business School feature in two different rankings of the world's most cited researchers. One of these rankings shows the top 2% of the world's most cited researchers in their field, and the other shows the top 1%.
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Professor Jennifer Clark of the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University is appointed adjunct professor at the UiS Business School and the Centre for Innovation Research and affiliated with the UiS Research Network for Smart Sustainable Cities.
The UNESCO Chair is a collaboration between The University of Stavanger and the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU) with a purpose to enable leadership, innovation and anticipation in support of the delivery of UN’s Sustainable Development Goals - and beyond - through the application of futures literacy.
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A look at how the Centre for Innovation Research in Stavanger has evolved in line with rapidly changing surrounds and shifting views on innovation policy. What has the Centre learnt through the last few years?
Saeed Moghadam-Saman defended his PhD at the University of Stavanger 21 May 2021.
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Public defence: Utku Ali Rıza Alpaydin defended his PhD at the University of Stavanger 24th of March 2021.
UiS is part of the Lean 6σ Learning Academy, organised by European Networks for Performance Enhancement in Mechanical (Manufacturing) and Construction Industry.
UiS School of Business and Law is an arena for dialogue and collaboration between academia, business, industry, and decision-makers. We have multiple seminars and conferences in economics and law.
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The University of Stavanger Business School recently submitted two applications to the Research Council of Norway to become Norwegian Centres of Excellence (SFF). The Norwegian Centres of Excellence scheme is the RCN`s most prestigious call. It allows scientific areas to organize themselves in centers to achieve ambitious scientific goals through cooperation and long-term funding.
Not all regions are like Silicon Valley, and not all universities can or should be like Stanford. Universities play various roles in regional restructuring and development.
By developing a new joint curriculum of PhD courses, candidates will be better equipped in areas of innovation and science.
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Spring of 2019, a wind turbine was lifted into place and installed on the Ullandhaug campus. Solar cells have already been installed. The turbine and solar cells are part of a laboratory that will produce energy from solar and wind. Students, researchers and the business community can study the energy mix produced at the lab.