Current Activities

• 2023 - a year to build up  research alliances and to find new projects.

• The reseach group  has established research co-operation with Lviv Polytechnecal University, Katowice Economic  University, Oslo Metropolitan University, Chirnivtsi National University.

• 15.06,23 (Jeløya Radio). Research gathering.

• The group will discuss  the possibility for the external financing for new initiative connected to Twins transition during the research gathering 

• 30.05.2023. A visit of two reserachers from Ukraine (Chirnivtsi and Zhitomir). 

• A  meeting in research group related to  the common project in Social Entreprenurship. 

• May, 2023. Abstract "Co-production" ( case Norway - Polen) is presented on the conferance in Budapest

• A project  "Co-production" together with Katowice Economic University has started in March, 2023.

• Roddvik and Halvorsen are working with the paper "Co-production in a digital Society ( case Norway-Polen).

• February 2023. Lecturing for the students in Lviv Polytechnical U. Cource "Public financial management"

• November 2022. Lecturing for Lviv Polytechnical University  - cource in International Economy and Trade

• 27.10.2022. Students form Lviv participated in the Student International Conferance in  International Marketing

• 24-30.10. 2022. A visit from Lviv Polytechnical U. A meeting about the furher development of DigiBest.

• All three research groups will meet  3.06.22 for the discussions about the reserach strategy

• A  NCSB conferance ( https://www.ncsbconferance.org) in Denmark, May, 2022.

• Invited guests researchers and lecturers

• The group will have two meetings per year, and 2 meetings together with two other groups at the Institute. 
• Meeting 31.03.22  

Olena Trevoho from Polytecnic Universitywill talked about the situation in Ukrainian Universities ( the date 31.03 2022). Olga Iermolenko fra Nord University will as well  updated about the situation  in Ukraininan academia. The group will discussed the possibilities for the external financing and how to include our Ukranian collegues in our research activities. Here is a short report: 1. It was an incredible encounter today with tears and strong stories.What impressed members most is that Ukrainian universities continue to teach. They managed a quick turnaround operation and are up and running after the first 2 weeks of shock. Students are interested in continuing their studies. Universities from regions where there is war and which have been occupied have moved to Lviv / other cities in Western Ukraine. Universities in Western Ukraine that welcomed both students and staff. The teaching is digital. Professionals use examples from the war from today to teach their subjects. Poland impressed everyone - they really started a massive process to help the neighbors - ID / information on Ukrainian / job offers and study places, etc. 2. Members of the research group have suggested the following: - ØIS can continue to work with the idea of ​​using the rest of NARROW money to help Ukrainian students to come and study in Hiof (dean and principal are informed, something must be clarified from the CP / authorities) - It is important that our Ukrainian colleagues are involved in various research processes. The group will start brainstorming (next meeting in June) to discuss which projects we can apply for via «DIKU» / Interreg / other sources and how we can connect Lviv Polytecnical University (LPNU) to these project; - All researchers in the group are positive about starting research processes with colleagues from LPNU. I will map skills and help partners find each other. The group was invited to participate in the "Ukrainian research network" - research related to Ukraine and more; - One of the members (Danuta Tomchak) proposed to form a group of Ukrainian students and use subject staff who can teach in Russian / Ukrainian / English (Norwegian in the long term). Danuta is Polish, worked all his life at Hiof / ØKAD, active member of the group, can teach in Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, English. There are several at school who can help with that. Good coordination and dialogue with the management is needed.- Subjects proposed to include Ukrainian students via Zoom in some of their lectures.

• We will have the next meeting in June where we will discuss research strategy. There we can provide more information related to Ukraine. Maybe there will be more clarification regarding our proposals.

• ELSE Sustainable Leadership 2022: China-Norway co-operation ( via Zoom. Contact. Irina Roddvik).  Next lectures: 

  April 6^th 09:00-11:00 (CET)   Lecture 4: Sustainable Development Goal #11

   “Sustainable construction and development”. Dr. Han jin, Dr. Lian Jiting, Han Miao & L. Berglund

• We will try to invite to a meeting our partners  from Nord University to talk about their research and co-operation with Ukraine (the date will be decided, 2022)
• The group will have a meeting in June together with the Research group Eurasia (date: tbd)

  April 20^th 09:00-11:00 (CET)   Lecture 5: Sustainable Development Goal #12

   “Sustainable consumption and the world economy”. Dr. Liao Lily & Dr. Irina Roddvik

  April 27^th 09:00-11:00 (CET)  Lecture 6: Sustainable Development Goal #13

    “Climate reminder and course summary”. Dr. Han Jin, Liu Jiahao & Dr. S. Wenstøp

• SMALE projects is started! Webinars about the important trends in the world økonomi. March-April 2021 ( take a contact with Irina Roddvik and you will get a link to Zoom lecture)
• Ukrainan delegationvist to HIOF: Lviv Politechnical University visited  HIOF in Februatry 2020 and participated  in the Research Group Meeting. The contact  on the level of research groups is established!
• Hiof/ ØKAD visited Lviv and worked together with the researchers frok Lviv Politechnical University, september 2019
• In March 2018, Evgueni Vinogradov (Nordlandsforskning Bodø) visited us and presented his research institute.
• In May 2018, Torsten Thieme (Price Waterhouse Coopers Kazakhstan) gave a guest lecture on blockchain technologies.

• A Routledge book International Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets: Contexts, Behabiours, and Successful Entry (2022) is published

Irina Roddvik and Birgit Leik have contributed with a chapter 

Illusion and deprivation of control: Entrepreneurial practices of SMEs during internationalisation in Russia

• Digital entrepreneurship in the Nordic sharing economy

Between 2018 and 2019, Mehtap Aldogan Eklund, Bjørnar Karlsen Kivedal and Birgit Leick have been working on the exploratory, own-funded research project Digital entrepreneurs: Exploring the sharing economy from a Nordic perspective. The project explores the sharing economy in Nordic countries with a focus on local economies. A follow-up project is planned for the spring of 2020.

• Current CfP:

Call for papers EURAM 2020 Annual Conference, SIG Entrepreneurship (T03_16)

Related publications:

• Leick, B.; Eklund, M.A.; Kivedal, B.K. (2020), Digital Entrepreneurs in the Sharing Economy: A Case Study on Airbnb and Regional Economic Development in Norway. in: Strømmen, Bakhtiar, A. & Vinogradov, E. (eds.). The Impact of the Sharing Economy on Business and Society. Digital Transformation and the Rise of Platform Businesses. First edition, forthcoming.
• Vinogradov, E.; Kivedal, B.K.; Leick, B. (2020), An agent-based modelling approach to housing market regulations and Airbnb-induced tourism. Accepted in Tourism Management.

Contact: Birgit Leick

Scandinavian Management and Emerging Economies

UTFORSK Combining course attendance and student participation in research: Understanding public health inequity through cultures

Geir C. Tufte and Lana Berglund work in this project, co-financed by Diku (project number: UTF-2018-two-year/100/10), HiØ and Hebei Geo University, China. The main goals are:

• Conduct a research project concerning comparative research methodology, where bachelor students in China and Norway participate as students in the course SFB13009 Meeting among Cultures at ØUC.
• Establish a long-term educational partnership between HGU and ØUC.
• Develop long-term student mobility between HGU (China) and ØUC (Norway).
• Research results are presented for the benefit of non-academic partner.

Expected results will be: 4 Chinese and 4 Norwegian students obtain ECTS from SFB13009 Meetings among Cultures; a publication (Level 1 or 2) summarizing research and educational outcomes (2021); educational partnership and academic cooperation between HGU and ØUC.

Contact: Geir Conrad Tufte