Writings & Outreach

Writings & Outreach

Writings · Podcasts · Video

Overview

Here are some examples of outreach activities. External talks, contributions to news articles etc. are not listed.

Writings

Created	Name	Excerpt
September 29, 2020	Recessions gives firms time to improve - if governments let them	Blog post for London School of Economics Business Review
September 9, 2017	Når kommer disse robotene egentlig?	Opinion piece in online financial newspaper E24 about timing of responses to technological change.
November 25, 2016	Grundere ikke best på nye jobber	Op-ed in financial newspaper Dagens Næringsliv about startups and job growth. Joint with Bram Timmermans
June 28, 2016	Gi flere aper tilgang på skrivemaskiner	Op-ed in financial newspaper E24.no about alternative approaches to innovation policy.
February 25, 2016	Faced with excess capacity, innovative firms retain staff, train and even hire	Blog post for London School of Economics Business Review
November 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.
October 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.
March 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.
November 27, 2014	Slaget om Lommeboken	Op-ed in financial newspaper Dagens Næringsliv about the future of payments.
October 1, 2014	Kontanter og Kunnskap	Op-ed in financial newspaper Dagens Næringsliv about the relationship between financial constraints and knowledge investments
July 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
November 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
July 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
August 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.
July 16, 2012	Kunsten å selge seg selv	Op-ed in newspaper Bergens Tidende about the complicated relationship between street art and capitalism.
August 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

Created	Name	Excerpt
October 1, 2021	Digitalisering og Konkurransefortrinn	Guest on podcast Digital Forretningsforståelse
April 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.
November 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

Created	Name	Excerpt
June 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
September 19, 2022	Hva er strategi?	Short video about strategy for Musikkontoret
June 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?
June 29, 2018	Thoughts on teaching	Interview made by NHH where I reflect on teaching large classes
November 23, 2017	When knowledge is outdated	Talk at NHH's annual alumni-conference about the implications of knowledge depreciation (in Norwegian)
April 25, 2017	How do we create the next success stories?	Panel discussion on the Norwegian Research Council's innovation conference 2017 (in Norwegian)