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Select name for details Directors Per Koch Yngve Seierstad Stokke Research directors Heidi Wiig Aslesen Anders Ekeland Aris Kaloudis Office manager Hanne Rønne Library services Inger Næsheim Researchers Siri Aanstad Markus Bugge Morten Fraas Eric Iversen Trond Einar Pedersen Rannveig Røste Nils Henrik Solum Senior researchers Johan Hauknes Åge Mariussen Svein Olav Nås Finn Ørstavik Tore Sandven |
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Per Koch Dep: Oslo Director Direct phone: 22868021 e-mail: Per Koch has a degree in the history of ideas, and a background as a science and technology policy adviser in the Norwegian Ministry of Education, Research and Church Affairs. He is the Norwegian correspondent for the EU Commission Trend Chart of Innovation, and has been a member of the OECD Working Group on Technology and Innovation Policy. (back to top) |
Yngve Seierstad Stokke Dep: Oslo Director of Administration and Finance Direct phone: 22868016 e-mail: Yngve Seierstad Stokke holds a Master of Science in Business from Bodø Graduate School of Business, and has studied Development at Selly Oak Colleges. (back to top) |
| Research directors |
Heidi Wiig Aslesen Dep: Oslo Research directors Direct phone: 22868028 e-mail: Heidi Wiig Aslesen has taken part in several evaluations of technology programmes and had projects linked to Norwegian offshore policy. The last years her work has had a regional focus with emphasis on regional industrial development and regional innovation systems. She has produced a range of STEP reports, and has also published articles in books and journals. She has got her major in Political Science from the University in Oslo. Currently she is engaged in a project that focuses on the role of big cities as driving forces behind growth in the new economy. (back to top) |
Anders Ekeland Dep: Oslo Research directors Direct phone: 22868030 e-mail: Anders Ekeland, economist, graduated from the University of Oslo. Also studied history, computer science and Czech. Main area of work is mobility studies, using Event History Analysis on large public databases. Other work areas include reasearch policy, especially IT-strategy. Special interests are computer simulation and Radical/Marxian Economics (back to top) |
Aris Kaloudis Dep: Oslo Research directors Direct phone: 22868012 e-mail: 1963. Economist graduated from the Main interests: Quantitative analysis, policy implications of knowledge spillovers, efficiency in R&D and innovation. (back to top) |
| Office manager |
Hanne Rønne Dep: Oslo Office manager Direct phone: 22868010 e-mail: Hanne Nordal Rønne is taking care of the administrative tasks of our group. (back to top) |
| Library services |
Inger Næsheim Dep: Oslo Library services Direct phone: 22868033 e-mail: Inger Næsheim is responsible for the library activities in our group. She has worked many years as the head of library at the Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and for the Norwegian Research Council. (back to top) |
| Researchers |
Siri Aanstad Dep: Oslo Researchers Direct phone: 22868022 e-mail: Siri is a junior researcher. (back to top) |
Markus Bugge Dep: Oslo Researchers Direct phone: 22868013 e-mail: Markus M. Bugge has a MA in Science, Society and Technology from the Universities of Oslo and the Basque Country. His master thesis dealt with urban governance from a learning economy perspective, illuminated by a case study of the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum. His most resent report on dynamics and knowledge flows in the Nordic music Industry is available from (www.step.no/music), the project was funded by the Nordic Industrial Fund. Main fields of interest are social processes in learning and innovation, cultural industries and urban governance. Markus is currently on leave (back to top) |
Morten Fraas Dep: Oslo Researchers Direct phone: 22868025 e-mail: Morten Fraas is an Economic Geographer, graduated from the University in Oslo. His major dealt with innovative properties of territorial agglomerations, a study of the engineering cluster in Kongsberg. At the STEP Group he works on industry innovation studies and regional economic development. He is currently engaged in a project for Corporate Governance, Innovation and Economic Performance in the EU Nations (CGEP), Corporate Governance and innovation in Nordic Telecommunication. (back to top) |
Eric Iversen Dep: Oslo Researchers Direct phone: 22868023 e-mail: A researcher, Eric J. Iversen works principally on the 'framework conditions' of technological change, with particular focus on Intellectual Property regimes and the standardization of network technologies. He took his Bachelor's at the University of Chicago (AB '9) and his Master's at the University of Oslo/ Research Center for Information-technologies and Law (CRID, FUNDP) in Namur, Belgium. He is presently working with Norwegian patent data. (back to top) |
Trond Einar Pedersen Dep: Oslo Researchers Direct phone: 22868026 e-mail: Trond Einar Pedersen holds a DPhil from SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research) at the (back to top) |
Rannveig Røste Dep: Oslo Researchers Direct phone: 22868024 e-mail: Rannveig Røste joined STEP as a junior researcher in September 2002. She is graduated in political science at the (back to top) |
Nils Henrik Solum Dep: Oslo Researchers Direct phone: 22868019 e-mail: Nils Henrik Solum is a researcher. He has a MA in Science, Society and Technology from the Universities of Oslo and the Basque Country. He is currently working on his work on a Doctoral Thesis at the Norwegian School of Management - BI. The topic is Economics of Sports, with Norwegian football as a case. He is also responsible for the design and maintenance of these homepages (back to top) |
| Senior researchers |
Johan Hauknes Dep: Oslo Senior researchers Direct phone: 22868020 e-mail: Johan Hauknes is presently a senior research fellow with STEP. He has a longstanding career as researcher in economics of innovation, in management and in national level policy making. In the period 1998-2001 he was director of STEP. He is frequently used as advisor to national and international bodies on the basis for and design of innovation policies. With post-graduate training in both theoretical physics and economics and extensive experience from innovation policy formulation, his main interest in macrolevel innovation dynamics and structural change, on microlevel determinants of innovation and the interaction between the two. Recent work include an assessment of Swedish socio-economic innovation research. (back to top) |
Åge Mariussen Dep: Oslo Senior researchers Direct phone: 22868029 e-mail: (back to top) |
Svein Olav Nås Dep: Oslo Senior researchers Direct phone: 22868031 e-mail: Svein Olav Nås is trained as an economist at the University of Bergen, with history and political science as side disciplines. Main areas of work include national innovation systems, development of science and technology indicators and related statistics and empirical analysis utilizing such indicators. (back to top) |
Finn Ørstavik Dep: Oslo Senior researchers Direct phone: 22868036 e-mail: Finn Ørstavik is Dr. Philos. in sociology from the University of Oslo. Dr. thesis on The hierarchical paradigm in technological innovation. Research areas: The Norwegian system of innovation, the history of the Norwegian technology policy system, qualitative empirical investigation of innovation processes, innovation theory. (back to top) |
Tore Sandven Dep: Oslo Senior researchers Direct phone: 22868017 e-mail: Tore Sandven is a sociologist. He works on quantitative studies of innovation. (back to top) |