Markus M. Bugge

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• PhD
• Associate Professor at University of Oslo

This study examines the relationships between traffic safety innovations, innovation culture, and safety culture in four Norwegian county authorities three years after a comprehensive structural reform. Following the reform, the county authorities had to establish new organisations, routines, and systems. The study is based on qualitative interview...

While nexus research in sustainability science has investigated the consequences of connected systems, it has paid less attention to the processes of building nexuses which is becoming increasingly important in low-carbon transitions because these often require the creation of new connections between multiple consumption–production systems. Buildin...

Vision Zero was adopted as the long-term ideal for transport safety in Norway in 2001. Starting in 2002, national road safety action plans covering a period of four years have been developed. This paper identifies innovative elements in these plans and explores the statistical relationship between innovation and the number of killed or seriously in...

This article explores whether and how innovation policies promote transitions to more sustainable configurations in socio-technical systems. Empirically it departs from an analysis of the bioeconomy policy strategies and instruments in four Nordic countries. The analysis highlights that while a transformative approach is present at the policy strat...

This article explores whether and how innovation policies promote transitions to more sustainable configurations in socio-technical systems. Empirically it departs from an analysis of the bioeconomy policy strategies and instruments in four Nordic countries. The analysis highlights that while a transformative approach is present at the policy strat...

The innovation literature increasingly addresses grand challenges and transformative change. However, the issue of to what extent transformative change can build upon the resources, actors and institutions of existing innovation systems has not received sufficient attention. Against this background this paper aims to advance our understanding of th...

The innovation literature increasingly addresses grand challenges and transformative change. However, the issue of to what extent transformative change can build upon the resources, actors and institutions of existing innovation systems has not received sufficient attention. Against this background this paper aims to advance our understanding of th...

The report discusses policies for green growth of a number of regional (or county) councils in Finland, Norway, and Sweden. These policies, which vary in scope, in ambition, and in degree of place-basedness, provide fertile meeting grounds for policy traditions for decarbonization of public services through public procurement and for innovation ori...

In the literature on mission-oriented innovation supply side and tech-oriented approaches have been complemented by broader and more inclusive societal approaches. Here, it is highlighted that both directionality and broad anchoring of diverse stakeholders across private, public, and civic domains are key to successful implementation. Still, it is...

Innovation activities in health care are difficult to monitor and manage as they are often tied to improvements of ongoing practices and services. Finding a way to make ‘hidden innovations’ visible is important if innovation is to be managed strategically within and across hospitals. This paper analyses the development of an innovation monitoring a...

During the years there has been an increasing number of one-to-one programs around the world. In such programs all students are equipped with portable devices, such as laptops, tablets, smartphones for learning purposes. Even if these initiatives are increasing, our knowledge of the impact of such digital transformation of education is still little...

The technical report includes findings from a longitudinal study of the implementation of one-to-one Chromebooks in a municipality in Norway. It might serve as an updated contribution to the growing body of studies on one-to-one initiatives of digital devices in schools.

Targeting the SDG's through Norwegian innovation projects in the Global South. Policy brief: The Vision2030 mechanism – Lessons learned and ways forward

This working paper summarises the results of eight comparative case studies on green growth in four Nordic countries: Northern Jutland and Southern Denmark in Denmark, Tampere and Central Finland for Finland, Hordaland and Trøndelag for Norway, and Scania and Värmland for Sweden. The eight case studies give some background information and explain...

Evidence-informed policy and practice has been a trend as part of an effort to increase the use of research to improve education at all levels. In many countries, knowledge-brokering initiatives were established to stimulate links between research, policy, and practice. Drawing on a mapping of initiatives in seven countries, this article describes...

The notion of the bioeconomy has gained importance in both research and policy debates over the last decade, and is frequently argued to be a key part of the solution to multiple grand challenges. Despite this, there seems to be little consensus concerning what bioeconomy actually implies. Consequently, this chapter seeks to enhance our understandi...

This chapter discusses the notion of the circular bioeconomy, and the drivers and barriers for adding value to waste and thereby creating a more sustainable bioeconomy. It highlights the special role of governance including innovation policy in developing the bioeconomy. The bioeconomy is an emerging area for research, policy and economic activity...

During 2017-2019, Asker municipality in Norway carries out the project "Digital learning in the asker school" which include that all students get their own digital device (Chromebook) for teaching and learning purposes. NIFU study how this project evolves over the years. This mid-term report provides a picture of the first half year of the initiati...

This paper analyses urban waste systems to explore how local authorities can resolve challenges related to climate change, urbanization and resource depletion. The paper investigates how different public governance regimes affect local authorities’ ability to move upwards in the waste hierarchy. It identifies three different governance regimes – tr...

Trying to solve the world’s food waste problem is a complex task. Food waste management is becoming more sustainable, but so far, many efforts have targeted recycling food waste rather than preventing food from becoming waste in the first place. Food waste prevention is a far more challenging and sustainable solution than creating systems for recyc...

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in innovation studies towards grand challenges , and in how demand-side policy instruments can supplement traditional supply-side policy measures. To contribute to an improved understanding of how demand-side policy requires new governance responses, this article presents a case study of triall...

Debates on how to address societal challenges have moved to the forefront of academic and policy concerns. Of particular importance is the growing awareness that to deal with issues such as ageing, it will be necessary to implement concerted efforts on technological, social, institutional or political fronts. Drawing on a number of theoretical pers...

Although the bioeconomy has been embraced by many governments around the world as a way of responding to the grand challenge of climate change, it remains unclear what the bioeconomy is and how it can contribute to achieving these broad policy objectives. The aim of this paper is to improve our understanding of whether, and how, the bioeconomy incl...

Dragonbox er et nytt læreverk i matematikk som har blitt pilotert i 25 klasser fordelt på 10 skoler på 1. trinn i Skedsmo kommune i skoleåret 2016-17. NIFU har gjennom å følge implementeringen på skolene dokumentert erfaringer underveis i dette arbeidet. Dragonbox omfatter bruk av både digitale og analoge læringsressurser, og utfordrer den etabler...

Theorizing within the umbrella of evolutionary economic geography (EEG) has improved the understanding of how inter-firm relatedness conditions knowledge spillovers, and how this affects the long-term evolution of regions. Still, there are shortcomings in this approach associated with a quantitative and generic methodology, a static notion of relat...

The notion of the bioeconomy has gained importance in both research and policy debates over the last decade, and is frequently argued to be a key part of the solution to multiple grand challenges. Despite this, there seems to be little consensus concerning what bioeconomy actually implies. Consequently, this paper seeks to enhance our understanding...

Public sector innovation is often seen through the lens of private sector frameworks. This paper discusses to what extent the innovation typology derived from the private sector is appropriate for public sector contexts. Based on a discretionary classification of 1,536 qualitative examples of public sector innovations, the authors examine the nuanc...

Sammendrag Denne rapporten oppsummerer funnene i et FoU-prosjekt som Menon og NIFU har gjennomført på oppdrag for KS. Prosjektet har pågått i perioden januar – desember 2015. Studien har kartlagt i hvilken grad og hvordan kommunene arbeider med spredning av løsninger og erfaringer fra innovative offentlige anskaffelser på tvers av norske kommuner...

The evolutionary turn in economic geography has shed new light on historically contingent regional preconditions for innovation and economic growth, which has the potential of improving the analytical input to regional innovation system approaches. Evolutionary economic geography has renewed interest in and sharpened the conceptual lens on firms, t...

Theorizing within evolutionary economic geography on regional branching of industries has so far been depicted as evolving through routine replication among different economic actors that hold various degrees of relatedness. Methodologically, related variety and unrelated variety have been studied quantitatively, treating relatedness between econom...

Like other creative industries, the book publishing industry is currently experiencing a shift from analogue to digital technologies and formats. This shift challenges existing business models and impels firms to re-examine their product portfolios and core competencies. Through a qualitative case study of the three largest publishing houses in Nor...

While there is growing awareness that much innovation currently takes place in the public sector, it is also recognised that more systematic efforts to promote innovation are needed to address the economic and societal challenges that public sectors face. However, there is a lack of a common understanding of what public sector innovation is and a l...

The article discusses the strategic roles of public policy and institutions and the way this effect to the efficiency of regional innovation systems in the landscape of evolutionary economic geography. It argues that the current emphasis on path dependency historically contingent preconditions has provided important insights into the interdependenc...

The article discusses the strategic roles of public policy and institutions and the way this effect to the efficiency of regional innovation systems in the landscape of evolutionary economic geography. It argues that the current emphasis on path dependency historically contingent preconditions has provided important insights into the interdependenc...

The advertising industry is currently undergoing a profound restructuring process, where traditional media like TV and print are being complemented and replaced by new forms of online and interactive advertising. The versatile and interactive nature of the Internet medium represents new opportunities and challenges for the advertising agencies that...

The advertising industry is often seen as adaptable and flexible, and its work organization and diverse project ecologies are assumed to nurture creativity, learning and innovation. The advertising industry in Oslo is currently going through a restructuring process of adapting to the Internet as an emerging media channel for marketing, but struggle...

The creative class thesis put forward by Florida [(2002a) The Rise of the Creative Class and How it's transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life (New York: Basic Books)] has in recent years been subject to vivid debate and criticism. This article applies the creative class thesis onto a Nordic context in order to examine whether Florid...

This paper analyses the creative class thesis put forward by Florida (2002) by use of qualitative data from 14 regions across Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The 14 regions include capital city regions, regional centres and semi-peripheral regions. The paper analyses the role of people climate and business climate for the location of the creat...

STEP har analysert bygg-, anleggs-og eiendomsnæringens situasjon, sentrale innovasjonsutfordringer og viktige hindringer for innovasjon. Rapporten skal bidra til næringens videre arbeid med å utvikle en innovasjonsstrategi hvor bedriftenes egen virksomhetsutvikling, og grunnleggende forskningsinnsats kan innrettes mot et felles sett av langsiktige...

Hovedproblemstillingen i prosjektet er: Hvordan skal man f� klyngene av marine innsatsleverand�rer til � bli velfungerende innovasjonssystemer? Prosjektet gir en kartlegging og analyse av eksisterende innovasjonssystemer og generelt innovasjon i leverand�rbedrifter rettet mot marin sektor, med sikte p� en vurdering av hvordan innovasjon og teknolog...

This report is part of the FAKTA programe of the Norwegian Research Council, more specifically the project “Competences, mobility and value creation”. Together with other reports from this project on ICT personel, on technologist it tries to look at stocks and flows of knowledge in the economy. This report builds upon another report of a more theor...

Rapporten vurdere SIVAs internasjonale engasjement med utgangspunkt i en ex ante prosjektvurdering, spesielt i forhold til (antatte) distrikts- og regionalpolitiske effekter av SIVAs internasjonale engasjement, og konkluderer med: At SIVAs n�ringsparker i hovedsak fremst�r som et SMB-orientert virkemiddel. At SIVAs internasjonale engasjement bare i...

Form�let med evalueringen er todelt. For det f�rste en vurdering av effekter av ordningene med OFU- og IFU-kontrakter i forhold til m�l og strategier for ordningene. Bruk av betinget tilskudd (tilskudd med tilbakebetalingsvilk�r) forutsettes vurdert spesielt. For det andre en vurdering av organisatoriske forhold, spesielt knyttet til konsekvenser a...