Where: Lund University, Sweden
When: 23-27 June 2025
Who: Johan Miörner
About
The innovation and society PhD course is also this year organised by CIRCLE and the Social Science faculty at Lund University. The course identifies and goes beyond the rhetoric of innovation as entrepreneurship and the solving of technical problems, to investigate what innovation is beyond the firm and how innovation impacts society – and vice versa. The course provides a critical introduction to innovation as a process and as a strategy used by private as well as public sector organizations to achieve their goals. The course emphasizes the intended and unintended impacts of innovation on societies, by analyzing the social and geographical distribution of innovation’s consequences, potential conflicts between goals, and the challenges and opportunities for governance. The course uses a multi-level approach to innovation, linking macro level processes, institutions and technological advancement to local practices, outcomes and experiences at actor-level. The course invites doctoral students to engage with their own field of research within the course’s framework, regardless of their disciplinary background.
Teachers on the course covers a broad and exciting set of topics, ranging from innovation studies and innovation governance, to the geography of innovation, transitions, and innovation in the public sector. It covers micro-level processes such as workplace innovation as well as macro- and context-specific factors shaping innovation in urban- and global south settings. Teachers on the course include Josephine Rekers and Johan Miörner (Department of Human Geography), Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren (Department of Political Science), Linda Stihl (Department of Economic History), Stuti Haldar (CIRCLE), Pauline Mattsson (Department of Business Administration) and Christopher Mathieu (Department of Sociology).
Participation is free for all NORSI students, students at Lund University and students affiliated with CIRCLE.
Deadline for registration is 25 March 2025.
NOTE! Please indicate in the comment section of the registration form if you are a NORSI student.
For more information and registration, see the course website: