Research & Progress

  • The hunt for innovation knows no borders

    Today, all countries are seeking the ultimate environment for innovation and creativity. The Nordic countries are looking to each other for help. In January this year the Nordic Innovation Centre, NICe, was established in Oslo. Financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers, its ambition is to make the Nordic countries leading innovators in Europe

    5 minutes

  • Book in review: Karaoke Capitalism

    We live in the time of individualism. Grab the microphone and express your unique personality. Welcome to Club Karaoke Capitalism, where talent, originality and/or money creates freedom of choice like never before. At least for some.

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    3 minutes
    Book in review: Karaoke Capitalism

  • Long term trends in the Nordic discourse on work organization

    The long term trend in work organization has clearly been in the direction of more autonomy and responsibility associated in the work role. This has been combined with a greater emphasis on the ability of each and every member of the organization to communicate directly with other members of the organisation as well as with…

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    7 minutes

  • Kongsberg: Working together for growth

    By investing in networks, partnerships and closer co-operation between research and private industries, Norway intends to concentrate on growth and innovation over the next ten years. This initiative, entitled “Value Creation 2010”, was launched at a conference in Kongsberg at the end of October.

    4 minutes

  • Co-operation and competition for success

    Gnosjö is home to one of Sweden’s most successful industrial regions and, paradoxically, also one with the lowest level of education.

    3 minutes

  • Internet pop

    In recent months, several books have been written about the IT industry by former pop musicians.

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  • Responses by vocational guidance psychologists to unconscious expectations

    It is easy to believe that counselling and guidance are rational, cognitive and conscious activities and forget the unconscious aspects of these tasks. This research, however, proved that the transferences of the clients and, perhaps especially the countertransferences of the psychologists, should be taken into consideration, if our aim is to improve the quality and…

    3 minutes

  • Initiative to strengthen Nordic cooperation in the IT area

    The Nordic countries cannot rest on their laurels just because they have had success with the new technology. If IT is to be accessible to all, a joint effort and cooperation between the Nordic countries is needed, says Lennart Daleus, leader of the Swedish Centre party and member of the European Committee of the Nordic…

    4 minutes

  • Is Volvo a car or a computer?

    The Nordic countries are well advanced in the use of the new technology. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden are at the forefront of Europe in terms of home PCs, Internet connections, and, not least, ownership of mobile telephones. But the lack of skilled labour can be an obstacle to continued rapid development, warn many…

    7 minutes
    Is Volvo a car or a computer?

  • The Dream Society

    Rolf Jensen is the Director of The Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies. It is one of the world’s largest institutes for creating scenarios and making forecasts about the future. Nevertheless, at a meeting, he was unable to answer a simple question from one of his clients: What will follow the information society?

    3 minutes