Get to know the student representatives in the CIRCLE board
Annika Ralfs and Cecilia Garcia Chavez are PhD-students and, as of this year, new student representatives in the CIRCLE board. Let's hear from them!
Innovation policy ideas bouncing around CIRCLE
Many ideas were thrown up in the air at the innovation policy workshop organised by CIRCLE – Centre for innovation research. The open atmosphere in the room enabled thinking in a "blue sky" manner about the future of innovation research and sharing of ideas just to see what might emerge.
New dissertation: how the power of change can lift areas in decline
Curiosity and the wish for change at a professional level led Linda Stihl to PhD-studies and a possibility to delve deeper into one of her fields of interest – inequality in societal development.
Networking at PhD-schools led to research visits
Last week CIRCLE welcomed two PhD-students visiting from Germany. Andrea Käsbohrer from the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and Max Roessler from the University of Greifswald. Max Roessler is an economic geographer who met with Johan Miörner, Markus Grillitsch and Lea Fünfschilling who gave talks at a PhD-course in Bern, Switzerland, [...]
Broadened horizons and networks through fellowship
Lea Fünfschilling has received a fellowship from the French Institutes of Advanced Studies which provides an opportunity for creative exchanges between scholars.
Time to move from global to responsible value chains
New CIRCLE policy brief on how policy can make a change for people, regions and the environment.
Open Source Software-policy can influence the global economy.
New policy brief on the importance of Open Source Software.
Summer reading suggestion: Empty Innovation
New book by Olof Hallonsten: Empty Innovation – Causes and Consequences of Society's Obsession with Entrepreneurship and Growth What is the book about? Innovation as a popular buzzword has become detrimental to innovation itself. The book describes this situation, how it came to be and gives way to a more realistic view of what innovation really [...]
Petrochemicals and climate change – article on lu.se
The oil industry is moving towards the chemical and plastics industry. Fredric Bauer explains in an article on lu.se what this means for the climate.
Networking and inspiration for early career researchers at CIRCLE
It is easy to feel a bit lost in the beginning of the career – your path is uncertain and your network might not be as extensive as you would like it to be. The goal of CIRCLE’s Early Career Innovation Research Day is therefore to create an informal space for networking and inspiration.