Postdoctoral positions in innovation studies
CIRCLE is looking for three post-docs that would like to contribute to its research environment in full-time employments of three years. The positions are focused on research, and some teaching can be required.
Research day for early career innovation researchers
CIRCLE invites early career researchers, that view their work as related to innovation research, to join us in Lund for a research day on May 2nd.
PhD course: Innovation and society
A PhD-course that goes beyond the general rhetoric of innovation to investigate what innovation is beyond the technical advancements and how innovation impacts society – and vice versa.
New research effort on innovation in the public sector
Over the past decade, interest in innovation in the public sector has increased dramatically. With new major societal challenges and limited resources, innovation becomes an important key for the way forward. A research hub is now set up at Campus Helsingborg bringing together cutting-edge expertise in the field.
Research output becomes policy analysis input
“When a door closes, somewhere a window opens” is the title of a report about the transformation process a region undertakes when a large company shuts down – a report about which steps a region can take to manage such a crisis, as well as input to national policy makers.
A delegation from the Estonian Embassy to Sweden visited Lund University
The Estonian delegation met with Lund University Dean Erik Renström and Mart Laatsit represented CIRCLE, Design sciences and the Faculty of Engineering (LTH).
Meet Daniel Avendaño Leadem, visiting researcher from Costa Rica
Why would a researcher working on how to reform Costa Rica come to Lund for a research visit? Daniel Avendaño Leadem shares how spending time at CIRCLE in Lund helps in his PhD work.
Book release – The Oxford Handbook of Job Quality
Welcome to join the book release-seminar with editor Chris Mathieu and some of the book chapter authors. Job quality is a topic of broad interest and increasing importance in a world of changing job markets, new technologies and changed conditions due to the pandemic. The new handbook edited by Chris Mathieu of Lund University and colleagues Chris [...]
Innovation Partnerships for sustainable transformation
Markus Grillitsch participated in the “Cambodia Outlook Conference 2022” with a blog post reflecting on recent policy developments in the European Union as well as the Nordic states of Europe. He argues that sustainable transformations call for wide-ranging changes in socio-economic systems, including a reorganization of value chains and [...]
Educational diversity – a benefit for fast growing companies
– Companies sometimes tend to devalue knowledge from other educational fields. For example, humanistic studies have been under attack a couple of times, writes Carita Eklund on the “Thesis Whisperer” blog. In her blog post Carita Eklund talks about young, fast-growing firms also known as “gazelles” and the importance of education diversity in the [...]