Kompetanse
Area of research intrest: Regional Industrial Development, Tourism, Innovation, entrepreneurship
Business Learning and entrepreneurial ecosystem
Teaching Experience: Management, Innovation, Tourism Management, Organizational Theory,
Organizational Psychology, entrepreneurship, scientific methods, Industrial
Development, Service management, Business Finance
CV
Work experience
2023 Associate Professor, School of Business University of South Eastern Norway
2022-2023 Sabbatical
2021-2022 Associate Professor/Director with responsible for external relations at the School of
Business University of South Eastern Norway
2018 - 2021 Head of Department of Business, Strategy and Political Sciences, University of
South-Eastern Norway
2019-2020 Head of EVU/EMM at the Business School, USN
2016- 2018 Head of research group Industrial management at HSN (University College of
Southeast Norway
2012 - 2020 Chairman of the Board BN Bygg AS
2012- 2015 Director of Centre of Tourism Management, BVUC ( Buskerud and Vestfold
University College)
2011-2012 Member of the Board Nore and Uvdal Industrial Company
2008-2009 Chairman of Hokksund Town Council
2007- 2008 Deputy Chairman of Hokksund Town Council
2003-2006 Chairman of Ethnic Music Club
2003 Associate Professor at BUC
Teaching, research, project manager report and research program
2002-2003 Board member of Ethnic Music Club
1999-2003 Assistant Professor, BUC
Teaching, research, project manager report and research program
1998- 2000 Senior Planner, deputy manager of Memento Advertising Agency
Responsible for marketing strategic planning, international and national customers international contact with the FCB system
1992 - Personally owned consultancy company
Lecturing activities, Consultant, teaching
1993 - 1998 Assistant Professor, Buskerud and Vestfold University College
Teaching, research, reports, project manager
1992 - 1993 University College teacher / part-time teacher, SLHK
Education
2014 Philosophiae Doctor
2008 - Participating researcher. Conversation and knowledge creation through the
qualitative methods. Phd course at UMB
- Experience of Nature, use of the environment and Second Homes
2005 - Brand Management, Phd course at the Norwegian School of
Economics
- Research design and methodology choice, Phd course at the Norwegian School of Economics
- Testing causal models, Decision models in marketing Phd course at the Norwegian School of Economics
2001- 2003 Immaterial rights, Master’s Degree Course
Product development, Master’s Degree Course
Intra/ entrepreneurship, Master’s Degree Course
Innovation Technology, Master’s Degree Course
Total Quality Management, Master’s Degree Course
Quantitative Methods, Phd course at the University of Michigan
Organization Theory, Phd course, University of Oslo
Qualitative methods, Phd course, University of Oslo
1993 Major in Business Finance
The National Teacher Training College for Commercial Subjects
1993 Minor Course in Social Pedagogy University of Oslo
1991 Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Trondheim
Research projects:
2025- Head of project RIØM Sparebankstiftelsen
2024-2025 Head of project SUBBIL, Energy, Clima and environment, USN intern
2014 -2016 Head of project VRI 3- Regional Innovation in Tourism, Health, and High-tec Industry,
The Research Council of Norway
2013- 2013 Head of project: Second Home owners value creation in Sigdal Municipality
2012 - 2013 Head of project: Guest Satisfaction at Destination Norefjell
2012 -2016 Head of project: Tourism monitoring, The Oslofjord Funding, BFK, IN
2011 - 2013 Deputy Head of project VRI 2- Tourism at Hemsedal, the Research Council of Norway
2010 - 2011 Head of Pilot project – Development of Tourism Monitoring, the Oslofjord Funding
2010 - 2010 Head of project –Second Home Tourism in Buskerud and the value creation?
2009-2011 Research within the VERDI project, EU project
2008 - 2010 Deputy Head of project VRI 1 –Tourism, the Research Council of Norway
1994 -2008 Head of project and associate member of various research projects, partly reflected
in publications