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Writings & Outreach

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Overview

New outreach pieces are primarily posted on Molekyl. Some other examples of outreach activities are listed below. External talks, contributions to news articles etc are not listed.

Writings

Writing Database

Created
Name
Excerpt
Sep 29, 2020
Recessions gives firms time to improve - if governments let them

Blog post for London School of Economics Business Review

Sep 9, 2017
Når kommer disse robotene egentlig?

Opinion piece in online financial newspaper E24 about timing of responses to technological change.

Nov 25, 2016
Grundere ikke best på nye jobber

Op-ed in financial newspaper Dagens Næringsliv about startups and job growth. Joint with Bram Timmermans

Jun 28, 2016
Gi flere aper tilgang på skrivemaskiner

Op-ed in financial newspaper E24.no about alternative approaches to innovation policy.

Feb 25, 2016
Faced with excess capacity, innovative firms retain staff, train and even hire

Blog post for London School of Economics Business Review

Nov 7, 2015
Idéfabrikken - den nye olja?

Opinion piece at NRK.no (Norwegian Broadcasting) about how innovation policies should focus more on facilitating the earliest stages in innovation processes - and not only helping with commercialization.

Oct 9, 2015
Koselig med Kritikk

Rebuttal in Morgenbladet to a critical review about the Nuart Festival a week earlier in the same newspaper. Joint with Martyn Reed and James Finucane.

Mar 5, 2015
Utvikler heller enn avvikler

Op-ed i financial newspaper Dagens Næringsliv about what firms do with excess capacity in their human capital in downturns.

Nov 27, 2014
Slaget om Lommeboken

Op-ed in financial newspaper Dagens Næringsliv about the future of payments.

Oct 1, 2014
Kontanter og Kunnskap

Op-ed in financial newspaper Dagens Næringsliv about the relationship between financial constraints and knowledge investments

Jul 10, 2014
Suksess og Forklaringer

Op-ed in financial newspaper Dagens Næringsliv about fallacies when trying to explain successes - linked to the (then) upcoming final match in the World Cup in Football, 2014

Nov 12, 2013
En katastrofe for Bergen?

Op-ed in newspaper Bergens Tidende about the sale of the traditional Bergen coffee company Friele to a Dutch company. Joint with Lasse B. Lien

Jul 10, 2013
Facebooks Død

Op-ed in newspaper Bergens Tidende about social media networks vulnerability for rapid collapse due to negative network effects

May 22, 2013
Bedrifter i rask vekst får det verst

Op-ed in newspaper Bergens Tidende about why growth firms are especially vulnerable to economic downturns. Joint with Lasse B. Lien

Aug 16, 2012
A Case for Crappy Street Art

Opinion piece in online art journal TASJ - The Art Street Journal. Also used for the Nuart Festival 2012.

Jul 16, 2012
Kunsten å selge seg selv

Op-ed in newspaper Bergens Tidende about the complicated relationship between street art and capitalism.

Aug 11, 2009
En middels kraftig bipolar lidelse

Opinion piece (with a satirical twist) in newspaper Bergens Tidende. Written to an op-ed competition about Norwegian identify.

Podcast

Writing Database

Created
Name
Excerpt
Jun 25, 2025
AI og Konkurransefortrinn 2.0

Guest on podcast Lederskap

Mar 13, 2024
AI og Konkurransefortrinn

Guest on podcast Lederskap

Oct 1, 2021
Digitalisering og Konkurransefortrinn

Guest on podcast Digital Forretningsforståelse

Apr 1, 2021
Strategi og Kreativitet

Guest on the podcast Ledertaffel, hosted by Marius Jones and Therese Sverdrup from NHH to discuss the linke between strategy and creativity. In Norwegian.

Nov 8, 2015
Hva skal vi leve av etter oljen?

Guest in debate on NRK Radio about innovation policy with the head of Innovation Norway, the head of Abelia, and the founder of VR-startup Making View.

Video

Writing Database

Created
Name
Excerpt
Jun 1, 2023
Hvordan finne sin nisje?

Short video about differentiation and what it takes to find a niche in an increasingly crowded competitive space. For Musikkontoret.no

Sep 19, 2022
Hva er strategi?

Short video about strategy for Musikkontoret

Jun 9, 2021
Strategies during crises

What can we learn from how the financial crisis of 2008 affected firm behavior and performance for the Covid-19 crisis?

Jun 29, 2018
Thoughts on teaching

Interview made by NHH where I reflect on teaching large classes

Nov 23, 2017
When knowledge is outdated

Talk at NHH's annual alumni-conference about the implications of knowledge depreciation (in Norwegian)

Apr 25, 2017
How do we create the next success stories?

Panel discussion on the Norwegian Research Council's innovation conference 2017 (in Norwegian)

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