We do international EU funded research projects to build relevance in research and teaching. We use these projects to assure that we work along relevant global trends, with high ranking universities internationally on what is imoportant for regional industry and public partners. An effect (or rather 9.590.938 reasons) of this strategy is resources made available for developing our research and teaching further :-)
In the IRG meeting January 6 we planned and discussed research initiatives and projects spring 2022.
Agenda:
1) Status update IRG
2) Presenting our phd fellows in Greenbizz
3) Articles in progress
4) Projects in progress
5) Planning this semester's writing seminar
The symposium brings together stakeholders for a many-faceted exploration of multi business model innovation. The concept of multi business model innovation is based on the idea of business model eco-systems. We invite discussions om multi business model innovation and practical implications. Symposium report published September 23.
The IRG symposium linked stakeholders for a many-faceted exploration of emergence and how what takes place inside our head plays a critical role in forming our future. The Symposium is supported by the Lighthouse workshop on environment, tourism and innovation and part of Forskningsdagene 2020 ved HiØ
Thursday 10 and Friday 11 June was dedicated to the semester academic writing workshop. This semester IRG scholars went to Hvaler Gjestgiveri discussing and developing articles and manuscripts for publication.
The main goal of the project is to provide quality education in sustainability related subjects for tomorrow's business leaders in China and Norway, thereby making them better equipped for taking part in the emerging sustainable economy. The principal means of meeting this goal is twofold: (1) deliver a quality bachelor course in sustainability issues, where Chinese and Norwegian students work in teams, and (2) provide opportunities for selected master students to go on 3-month exchange programs between Norway and China. A further strategic goal is to build upon already established cooperative ties between our school Østfold University College (OCU) and our academic partners in china, Hebei GEO University (HGU) and Beijing Jiaotong University (BJU). Project coordinator is Søren Wenstøp, Søren, Associate Professor in Economics.
IRG joining forces with the other research groups part of the new Institute of economy, innovation and society and the new arena for discussing research in the R&D lunch seminar.
First out was Matthew Lynch that Friday 21. may presented the article Merging Systems Thinking with Entrepreneurship: Shifting Students’ Mindsets towards Crafting a More Sustainable Future just published in the journal Sustainability and funded by the Interreg Greenbizz project.
Matthew P. J. Lynch, Gunnar Andersson & Frode Ramstad Johansen (all members of IRG) published the article Merging Systems Thinking with Entrepreneurship: Shifting Students’ Mindsets towards Crafting a More Sustainable Future in the Journal Sustainability April 2021.
Industry, technologists and innovators came together to explore real life challenges in the Østfold Energy sprint 2021 April 2021.
The green shift is here and drives the new worklife and studies. Are we ready for the transformation?
We welcome Dr Cristina Milani. We see this as one step in the ongoing process of strengthening the teaching and research capacity in the group for the benefit for our students and our regional partners.
IRG is part of the consortium in The Greenbizz project, an EU funded project supported by Interreg. Through research of green business models, the project seeks to blur borders and work across these to support green business model innovation in start-ups and SMB's in the region.
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.
IRG is part of a consortium applying for research funds at the DIKU employability program. The project proposed will use the “Predictive Control Strategy to Forecast Employability” developed at our project partners at U-PEC, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (https://www.u-pec.fr/). The ambition is to use the results to develop the employability from engineering and innovation programs at HiØ.
Gunnar Andersson, Matthew P. J. Lynch, Frode Ramstad Johansen, Mona Jerndahl Fineide & Douglas Martin (all members of IRG) published the article Exploring perceptions of Lean in the public sector in the Journal Public Money & Management December 2020.
29 September the central R&D unit published our article on participative learning and employability based on the experiences from the Lighthouse project 2020.
IRG is central in developing a flexible study program module (5 ECTS) on how to identify and plan operational improvements together with NMBU and Fagskolen Østfold. The initiative is supported by Kompetanse Norge for Viken Technology Cluster 4.0.
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 is a big green European Research project with 60 companies and 6 PhD candidates lead by Aarhus University (DK), partnering with Chalmers University (SE) and Høgskolen i Østfold (NO) represented by the IRG and Norwegian project leader Bjørn Gitle Hauge. Greenbizz is funded by INTERREG and is part of the green economy program developing new technology and methods for increased production and use of sustainable energy in SME's.
IRG is part of a consortium applying for research funds at the DIKU student active learning program due June 8. The project proposed will take a distinctive Organization development (OD) approach, anchored in action research, developing sustainable tourism together with Visit Fredrikstad & Hvaler and building new learning arenas enabling student active learning.
