Nyheter - Side 6

In this series of posts, we look back at the various actions on Hvaler in Norway, Koster in Sweden, Bornholm in Denmark, Schiermonnikoog in the Netherlands, and Groix and Ouessant in France, the islands that are part of the Interreg FREIIA project. By using the islands as laboratories, we have explored 'Student Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Action'. Through interviews with local stakeholders and design thinking workshops, we have identified innovation gaps and developed ideas and prototypes for solutions rooted in local needs.

Closer to real world problems! Closer to research! Three days with design thinking based and action oriented research on location in Schiermonnikoog.

Spennende presentasjoner og gode samtaler på årets store begivenhet for alle som arbeider for bærekraftig utvikling av det felles havet vårt Skagerrak. IRG arrangerte sideprogrammet på Innovasjon og entreprenørskap, og vår egen Bjørn Gitle Hauge var en av tre innledere.

While Digdir provided information on their guide for responsible development and use of artificial intelligence, the Innovation research group introduced our new initiative, the Thrustworthy AI-lab, which focuses on assessing the reliability of AI systems.

Tuesday 2 June 2020 Lucia Mortensen defended her thesis Industrial Symbiosis Emergence: In the Aalborg East Port Industrial Area. IRG's Gunnar Andersson was part of the assessment committee.  

Interreg Greenbizz and Interreg FREIIA researchers Gunnar Andersson, Frode Ramstad Johansen, Bjørn Gitle Hauge, Mirielle Torgersen, Lars Gunnar Furelid Tellnes and Per Valter published the article Co-Creating a Learning Community: Teaching Sustainability in Higher Education in the International Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning. It is our White paper on teaching and researching sustainability.

Østfold University College (HiØ) joins the pre-project Scope 3 Obeya as a research partner, led by researchers Gunnar Andersson and Frode Ramstad Johansen together with students from Innovation and Project Management (IPL). The team will quality-assure methodology and research design, conduct interviews and workshops, and translate findings into a system map and a tested course prototype—linking research directly to companies.

We share the announcement on the Handbook. "We are pleased to inform you that a book entitled “Handbook on innovation economics, engineering and management” will be published by the RNI with ISTE / WILEY editions."

In the IRG meeting January 8 we decided to update our mission statement  (about) for better reflecting our research as of today. We thus highlight the ambitions to contribute to regional value creation and the sustainable perspective. 

Greenbizz researchers Maryna Z. Solesvik, Mirielle Torgersen, Gunnar Andersson and Per Valter published the article Green Business Models: definitions, types, and life cycle analysis in the international peer-reviewed journal Forum Scientiae Oeconomia.

Greenbizz inviterte til bedriftsseminar på lønnsomhet i det grønne skifte på Litteraturhuset i Fredrikstad. På møtet ble resultater fra Greenbizz presentert og veien videre i samarbeidet diskutert.

25 green researchers gathered at Høgskolan Halmstad University Sep. 29 to Oct. 1, discussing results so far in the EU funded Greenbizz project. 

IRG is applying (due 19 June) for a PhD candidate and the project Green business model innovation. The research question is: How can established SME’s realize a green business model transformation based on a systemic perspective, life-cycle analysis and digitalization of processes? 

Greenbizz joins forces with River Boats, Innovation and project management students Emilie, Thomas, Markus and Christian in the Riverreborn bachelor project in a project that tries to answer how discarded rotationally molded leisure boats can be used as a resource in new products.

Application status for 2019 based on the IRG group and members in the group.

Today our project Strengthening strategic entrepreneurship in clusters developed with our friends at Visit Fredrikstad & Hvaler at the HUB42 where accepted with a total budget of 590.000 NKr.

Sirkulærøkonomi på Schiermonnikoog med FREIIA-forskere og 10 team med studenter fra Innovasjon og Prosjektledelse - Høgskolen i Østfold og Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen.

On 17–18 September, partners from the Interreg North Sea project FREIIA gathered at University West in Trollhättan, Sweden. The two-day meeting provided an arena for collaboration, knowledge exchange, and discussions on ongoing and future activities within the project.

Frode Ramstad Johansen presented EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT-BASED LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: LEARNING BY DOING IN THE FREIIA PROJECT at the institute of engineerings Research Lunch Program Friday 7 November. The full paper will be presented at the ICERI conference in Sevilla later in November.

Drawing on insights from the Interreg FREIIA project our researchers published the article Fostering Resilience and Innovation in Island Communities – Identifying Systemic Challenges and Opportunities in THE JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Vol. 6 No. 1 (2025).

Authors Gunnar Andersson, Bjørn Gitle Hauge, Frode Ramstad Johansen, Eivind Andre Leister, Per Valter, Matthew Patrick James Lynch, Hong Wu. DOI: https://doi.org/10.63410/jds2025/04