Rannveig Røste

Rannveig Røste

Associate Professor
Department of Business, Strategy and Political Sciences
USN School of Business
Campus Drammen
+47 35 95 28 57
Rannveig Røste has a PhD in innovation and entrepreneurship from BI Norwegian School of Business and Economics and a Cand.polit. in political science from the University of Oslo. She has previously worked as a contract researcher in the institute sector, and has extensive experience in research, consulting and project work. She has also been an associate professor at an experience-based master program in health and welfare services. Røste researches and teaches in the interdisciplinary intersection of innovation, organization and management. Her research is aimed at generating new knowledge about how sustainable innovation emerges and develops in the interaction between policy and politics, technological development and organizational processes. She has particularly contributed to developing the research field of innovation in the public sector, in studying the unique aspects of public services, but also the overlapping features with, for example, bureaucratic organization in industry. Røste was one of the founders of the national research network for innovation in the public sector in Norway, and from January 2025 she is editor of the journal Nordic Journal of Innovation in the Public Sector, see: https://www.scup.com/journal/njips. In addition to her own research, she contributes to the development of the strategic focus area of regional value creation at USN.

Responsibilities

Teaching in 2024/25:

Executive Master of Management, MBA

Organization and Administration, Bachelor

Sustainability Marketing and Circular Economy, Specialization bachelor

Reflective practice, Business bachelor ICT- and systemdevelopment

Competences

Academic interests:

  • Organizations and management in stability and change
  • Processes of innovation and change in organizations
  • Wicked problems and sustainability transitions
  • Innovation in the public sector
  • Green/circular econmomy
  • Digital transformation
  • Technology, policy and society
  • Temporality in innovation and change processes
  • Tacit knowledge, professional expertise and organizational knowledge
  • Co-evolution, collaboration and co-creation of existing and new knowledge

Ongoing research work:

  • Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation, Processes of Change and Stability at the Micro level of Public Administration
  • Managing Change, Transforming Organizations
  • Master Team in Digital Transformation and Change Management, Collaboration with Industry

Recent publications:

Røste, R. & Geirbo, H. C. (2026): "Regaining control of digital-induced change: structuring digital competences in public sector organizations ",  in print, Information Polity, SAGE Publications. Scientific article on the role of structure in the development of digital competence. 

Røste, R. og Dahlqvist, T. A. (2025): "Styring og ledelse i handlingsrommet mellom tillit og kontrolll", Nordisk Administrativt Tidsskrift. Scientific Article on the role of trust for innovation and change in public organizations. https://journals.oslomet.no/nat/article/view/6137.

Huby, G., Røste, R. and Reutter, L. (2024): "Digitalization - saving or undermining the welfare state?". Editorial special issue on digitalization in Nordic welfare state organizations. https://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/nwr.9.2.1

Geirbo, H. C. og Røste, R. (2023): "Talking About Algorithms: How Can Interdisciplinary Translation in the Automation of Public Sector Casework Be Facilitated?". Bookchapter on AI development work and collaboration in diverse professional groups in a social service organization. https://cdforskning.no/cdf/catalog/book/196

Røste, R., Huby, G., Saugestad, K.K.  og Lyslid, M.H. (2023): "Kompetansebroen - en digital arena for samarbeidsdrevet innovasjon". Report on the development of a digital platform in the healthcommunity of the region of Østfold. https://www.kompetansebroen.no/samhandling/kompetansebroen-ostfold-2?o=ostfold.

Røste, R. (2022): “Co-evolutionary dynamics of experimental governance: a longitudinal study of sustainable mobility services in Oslo”. Scientific article on innovation processes in experimental governance and sustainability mobility at municipal/local level. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, Volume 25, 2023 - Issue 1, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2076661

CV

Education:

  • Ph.D. Innovation and Entrepreneurship, BI Norwegian Business School
  • Cand. Polit. Political Science, University of Oslo
  • University- and university college pedagogy, Østfold University College

Previous acadmic positions:

  • Associate professor, Østfold University College
  • Researcher NIFU, Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education
  • Researcher STEP, Studies in Technology, Innovation and Economic Policy

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kEHwuKQAAAAJ&hl=en

2881bb345/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rannveig-Roste

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rannveig-r%C3%B8ste-

Publications in the Norwegian Research Information Repository