Roberto Rivas Hermann- PhD Planning and Development
- Professor (Associate) at Nord University
Roberto Rivas Hermann
- PhD Planning and Development
- Professor (Associate) at Nord University
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Introduction
Roberto's three main areas of research are: i) Sustainable supply chain management SSCM ii) Sustainability in the shipping industry SSI and iii) Education for sustainable development ESD. Roberto research on SSCM looks for integration among the SCM, innovation and entrepreneurship literatures. Currently Roberto analyzes contingencies of "circular economy" as a discursive construction in the context of Norwegian new product development projects. Within SSI, Roberto currently works with the Centre for High North Logistic (www.chnl.no) where he carries out research on environmental planning with focus on the shipping infrastructure in the Arctic. In the ESD domain, Roberto focuses in the integration of real-world learning teaching frameworks in interdisciplinary graduate courses.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
April 2019 - present
May 2016 - April 2019
December 2015 - April 2016
Kamca Forestal
Position
- Sustainable Business Developer
Education
October 2011 - July 2015
September 2009 - June 2011
January 2000 - December 2005
Publications
Publications (53)
The maritime shipping industry will increasingly switch to low carbon fuels and adopt energy saving technologies (ESTs) to achieve the industry target of decarbonization. Among ESTs, deck equipment, including those based on wind propulsion technologies (WPTs), represents the largest potential fuel savings and a source of increasing innovation initi...
With climate change and the opportunity to exploit oil and gas reserves, the Arctic has been the subject of numerous analyses in former years. At the same time, International Maritime Organization (IMO) and Arctic coastal states are creating a more constrained framework to protect the environment, to limit the impact of human activities upon the fl...
This paper investigates the institutionalization of international internships in business education through action research (AR), addressing the scarcity of research on overcoming institutional barriers and driving systemic change. Using AR at the meso-level in two Norwegian business schools, we investigate challenges and processes involved in inco...
Although the maritime industry has introduced technological improvements, shipping activity is still a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Using more intelligent incentive policies, such as subsidies, seems a way to increase green technology adoption. Our proposal is to engineer micro-level incentives to target a reduced set of adopters...
Purpose-Education for sustainable development (ESD) raises awareness of complex and dynamic issues, aiming to make sustainability more understandable and achievable. Especially at higher education institutions (HEIs), there are many obstacles to creating real-world learning experiences that align closely with students' future professional environme...
Previous research on the viability and challenges of commercial shipping along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) has thus far neglected to fully explain the connections between operational models for viable year-round commercial shipping along the NSR and port infrastructure services. In particular, little attention has been paid to the function of port...
A growing body of research is investigating the connections between the discursive construction of circular economy (CE) and its influences on public policies that promote the socio-technological transition towards circular production and consumption systems. However, surprisingly little attention has focused on how CE discourses interact with scie...
How has venturing within the circular economy - related to R & D, innovation, commercialization, etc. - emerged in response to incentive-based public policies? This study adds to the existing literature by examining the alignment between top-down public policies to promote circular economy innovations and the interests of a range of stakeholders, i...
The literature on international business teaching has contributed to the development of international internships as a learning pedagogy through three key areas: making sense of the students’ developed competences and prospective added employment value following their participation in international internships, the role of support structures in the...
International internships as learning method have gained attention in the business and management education. While a number of studies have well established the benefits and challenges of this learning approach across countries and study-programs, more recent research takes a critical instance towards internships as learning form. An emerging criti...
A growing body of research is investigating the connections between the discursive construction of circular economy (CE) and its influences on public policies that promote the socio-technological transition towards circular production and consumption systems. However, surprisingly little attention has focused on how CE discourses interact with scie...
Two virtual conferences brought together participants from forecasting, operations, climate and sea ice forecasting, economics, and planning. The aim was to better understand user needs in Arctic operations and planning, and more specifically to explore whether the development of sea ice forecasts can be useful for future maritime operations and pl...
PURPOSE: International internships as a learning method has gained attention in business and management education. It is a specific set of relations inside university-industry-government linkages. According to Christensen (2020), the literature about university-industry or university-industry-government relations is broad, but there is a gap in the...
An agent-based model is developed using the methodology discussed in Section II. Based on the research question, the authors propose a model to simulate the decision-making process of shipowners, regarding the installation and use of WPT on their ships.
There are four mobile agents in the model, including shipowners and the technology providers fo...
This paper addresses the institutionalization processes of international business practicums in young universities contexts. It contributes to ongoing discussions about the micropolitics of schools in which action research projects take place. In particular, when action research aims for wider change e.g. system change at school level. We thus posi...
In the context of enormous global challenges such as climate change, poverty, and the unequal distribution of wealth, sustainability education within higher education has gained momentum as a tool to train a new generation of change agents. Previous research has examined the relationship between sustainability education and entrepreneurship educati...
In this study, we contribute to the understanding of the circular economy (CE) as a technological opportunity by addressing the question: How do data mining methods contribute to a better conceptualization of technological opportunities in the circular economy? Based on a keyword-in-context methodology, we analyse 4072 R&D project applications subm...
This paper discusses how science and technology parks (STPs) act as intermediaries for projects regarding green innovation. The empirical evidence is gathered through a case study of the City of Knowledge in Panama. For the recent Panama channel’s expansion, local authorities faced the need to improve the water resource management to secure enough...
This chapter analyses the roles and activities of multinational companies (MNCs) in entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) and local start-up incubation. Drawing from literature regarding EEs and incubation policy, we present an example of a type of intervention under-theorized to date: incubation efforts stemming from MNCs rather than government or univer...
Research on sustainability education has neglected to integrate entrepreneurial skills into other relevant competences such as foresight, complex problem-solving, and interdisciplinarity. Previous research highlights possible convergences between sustainability education and entrepreneurship education; however, it does not address how to achieve th...
Developing eco-innovations using open innovation comes with a distinct set of challenges as the dual goals of economic and environmental value creation produce tension that is not easily overcome in a multi-stakeholder network. These incongruent goals are inherent in an open eco-innovation network and potentially involve governmental agencies, regu...
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Several entrepreneurship programs at higher education institutions have started to integrate sustainability-oriented courses into their programs (Barber et al., 2014; Hameed et al., 2016; Lans et al., 2014; Lourenco et al., 2013). However, it is latent the need for convergence of sustainability and entrepreneurs...
Term frequency and underlying concepts, generated with the software Leximancer. The word file is the Norwegian translation of the tokens.
Available at Mendeley data repository: https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/wkj5cg3btm/1
This study tackles the question: How do new air pollution regulations interact with other eco-innovation drivers in the adoption of environmental technologies in the shipping industry? In the North Sea, Baltic Sea, and the English Channel, short sea shipping is subject to strict requirements on sulphur emissions by the European Union and the Intern...
This paper examines if eco-rating schemes improve environmental outcomes in the context of the international shipping industry. Shipping faces global environmental challenges and has recently witnessed the introduction of several eco-rating schemes aiming to improve the environmental performance of ships. Extending the private environmental governa...
Norwegian R&D policies increasingly support technological innovation through a combination of public subvention incentives, these schemes often require that companies fill very detailed application forms to explain the reasons behind engaging in new product development. Over the years, this archival data becomes a valuable source to explain why com...
Product environmental labels, or eco-labels, are also a subset of these initiatives seeking to deliver information to consumers -or other actors along the value chain. The advent of eco-labelling in shipping coincides with increasing public and regulatory focus on the environmental footprint of the industry. In other words, eco-labels could potenti...
Este artículo explora los conceptos de innovación popular e innovación frugal y su potencial para la generación de un conocimiento capaz de producir un desarrollo más sostenible e inclusivo. La innovación frugal o popular, a menudo llevada a cabo en condiciones de escasez de recursos materiales y financieros, intenta solucionar de manera simple, pe...
Previous studies discuss how regulatory, technological and market drivers increasingly challenge manufacturing industries to adopt eco-innovations. However, the understanding of the process by which eco-innovations are developed and commercialized as a result of these drivers is not yet well established, in particular because these drivers are perc...
Intermediaries are actors who perform several functions during innovation processes such as brokering and networking. In this paper, the aim is to analyse how intermediaries support collaborative innovation processes taking place in green maritime technology projects. In particular, retrofit projects related to cleaner technologies and small vessel...
The shipping industry faces huge challenges with regard to improving its environmental performance. The current regulatory approach has not been successful. Public and private actors increasingly rely on partnerships. The literature on partnerships for sustainability has contributed to a better conceptualisation of the subject. However, less is kno...
Eco-innovation research pays increasing attention to business models and their contribution to the diffusion of environmental technology into socio-technical systems. The extent to which a business model hampers or promotes certain types of eco-innovations remains an open question. In order to shed light on this issue, the authors develop a concept...
This report has been written on the basis of the work Aalborg University (AAU) has carried out in the S@IL project (Sustainable Approaches and Innovative Liaisons) with regard to work package 5 on Policy and Legislation.
From July 2012 to June 2015, 17 partners from 7 North Sea Countries have worked on the S@ILproject. The aim of the project was t...
Air pollution from maritime transportation has become an important public health and environmental concern. As result, new international regulations seek to reduce the pollutants issuing from marine fuels combustion. Marine cleaner technology has been regarded as the key solution to comply with regulations and reduce operation costs. However, defin...
The Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) provides a comprehensive framework to explain the structure and agency leading socio-technological change. Historical case studies have optimized the MLP by revealing socio-technological transitions in different sectors (water management, electronics and energy). Moreover, recent research has pointed-out the useful...
This article presents the results of comprehensive inventories made of water-related conflict and cooperation occurring in five districts in Africa, Asia and Latin America between 1997 and 2007. Following a description of the conceptual and methodological framework developed for undertaking these inventories, the article documents the extent, natur...
Eco-innovation encompasses the “creative destruction” of unsustainable patterns of production and consumption. Research on eco-innovation promotion highlights the role of university in supporting industry and government partnerships to achieve sustainability. However, scant literature analyses the role of science parks in promoting eco-innovation....
Voluntary environmental programs have been widely used as greenhouse gas reduction instruments in developed countries. However, their role in developing countries is understudied. Previous research has called for comparative case studies to build knowledge on this topic. Four case studies from Brazil, Vietnam, and India are analyzed by interviews a...
El estudio del marco institucional para la gestión del agua en Nicaragua es el inicio del programa de investigación comparativa: “Competencia por el agua: entendiendo el conflicto y la cooperación en la gestión local del agua”, en la que colaboran cinco países: Vietnam, Zambia, Malí, Bolivia y Nicaragua. En Nicaragua, el programa se enfoca geográfi...
ESTE ESTUDIO VINCULA LA PROBLEMÁTICA FORESTAL Y AMBIENTAL A NIVEL MICRO con el nivel de políticas más sectorial a través de un estudio de caso y consulta a expertos locales y nacionales. Aporta al conocimiento de las principales barreras legales e institucionales que impiden a los finqueros ganaderos fomentar y aprovechar mejor el recurso arbóreo e...
Summary This paper describes a field study conducted during the 2005-06 Nicaraguan coffee harvest investigating the relationship between scientific control of the coffee fermenta- tion process and the quality of the resulting roasted coffee. In phase one of the study, small-scale, well-controlled laboratory fermentation was carried out on eleven ba...
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Questions (2)
Hi
In my work as lecturer, I often find the need to check if the papers I am reading are not plagiarizing previous works. In the case of thesis and term papers, our university exam office has an automated system that checks for this, but this tool does not provide the possibility to check early drafts, i.e. it is only possible to notice plagiarism by the submission date without the possibility to apply correction measures on time.
Do you know of online available tools (free of charge) that can provide a quick report/ overview about plagiarism in a paper?
Anyone has experiences to share of tools they use in their own work?
Kind regards
I have a quite strange situation. The dataset contains around 1000 articles taken from WoS. I created a DCA, accross slices, 19 year-period. I expected to be formed two large clusters a bit separated from each other. That actually happened. However one of the large clusters (named subclusters 1 and 2) did generated labels and figures for the cluster.
The second group of subclusters, did not generate any cluster information.
When I check the cluster information tables, I get some extra clusters that do not appear in the Figure.
This situation has my head-up. Any advice?
1) A link to the figure of the clusters:
2) A link to the table with information from the clusters
Thanks for any advice
