Annual Report 2011 - NTNU

New researcher Projects (started in 2011)
Project title. Entrepreneurship – business acceleration Norway – Cuba
Project leaders: Morten Henry Westvik and Carla Dahl Jørgensen
Status: Application for funding is underway. Application will be submitted in 2012. Currently,
NTNU Globalization Research Programme and UD sponsor the project.
Conference/Workshop/Seminar Arranged
January 2011: Conference ‐ Global Borders as Barriers and Bridges, responsible Carla
Dahl Jørgensen
May 2011: Scandinavian Work Shop on xPS, responsible Torbjørn Netland
22—24 June 2011: Conference ‐The 13th International Conference on Modern
Information Technology in the Innovation Processes of industrial enterprises—MITIP
2011, responsible Heidi Dreyer
18 November‐ Seminar: Global production in the 21th century, responsible Godfrey
Mugurusi
National and International Collaborations
Over the past year the focus area researchers have initiated a broad range of collaborations
with national and international researchers. As the focus area uses seminars and
conferences as the main strategy for promoting and initiating research the list of
collaborators would be very long. Instead the focus area puts forward a few that has specific
strategic interest for the group.
First we need to mention our cooperation with Professor Kasra Ferdows at the McDonough
School of Business and Georgetown University in Washington DC. Professor Ferdows is
maybe the most promient scholar in operation management in the world and visited
Trondheim for a GP&C seminar last year. This year Torbjørn Netland is visiting at
Georgetown for a full year working on his PhD thesis on international operations
management. They are now doing joint research that hopefully will be published in 2013.
We have also established collaboration with two institutions in France. Primarily the
department for management research, Sup de Co, Montpellier, France. We are doing joint
research on in the intersection between economic geography and international
entrepreneurship primarily with associate professor Frank Lasch. In France we have also
initiated a collaboration with the department of finance and management at the University
of Chambery on the topic of international entrepreneurship. These French connections have
been very productive and the research publications from this collaboration will emerge
already in 2012.
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