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Bjørn-Tore Flåten is an Associate Professor at the University of Agder (UiA), Norway. He holds a PhD in International Management from UiA and a MSc in Economics and Business Administration from NHH Norwegian School of Economics. Prior to joining UiA he served as a unit manager in a major Norwegian non-profit organization where he held responsibilities for personnel and training and for managing international educational tours for groups of 150 people involving cross-cultural exchanges. He is also an experienced consultant with a record of managing projects involving organizational structure and design, change, re-structuring, and building of compensation and evaluation schemes in different industries.
His research lies at the intersection of management, innovation and entrepreneurship, with a particular interest in how knowledge is created, shared and mobilized across organizational, digital and regional boundaries.
His research is organized around three interconnected areas: 1) knowledge work and digital collaboration; 2) entrepreneurship, crowdfunding and digital venture development; and 3) innovation, learning and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Across these areas, his work examines how knowledge sharing, creativity, organizational learning and collaboration contribute to innovation and value creation in organizations, entrepreneurial ventures and society.
Flåten has published research in journals such as Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Information and Organization, Journal of Business Research, Human Resource Development Quarterly, European Journal of International Management, Journal of Design Thinking and Journal of e-Business. He has also contributed to the development of crowdfunding research and entrepreneurship education through the open-access volume Advances in Crowdfunding: Research and Practice and related scholarly contributions. In addition, Flåten serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Intellectual Capital.
Flåten is responsible for the entrepreneurship activities in the FORTHEM Alliance, which is a network of nine multidisciplinary public research universities with a strong regional anchoring in Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Romania and Spain. Additionally, he is participating in the MEUR 2.2 Horizon project, BlueRev, which is aiming at revitalizing local communities in Europe with innovative bio-based businesses, governance models and social innovations focused on the blue bio-based sector. In 2023 he was a Visiting Scholar for two months at the Università degli Studi di Palermo.
Currently, Flåten is the Head of International Relations at the School of Business and Law. He is also heading the university’s Centre for Entrepreneurship , where he seeks to expand and promote an entrepreneurial mindset. Through the center´s programs, students are trained on how to run their own business from the inception of an idea through its implementation. Through the center, Flåten has launched UiA Innovation and UiA CoLAB, who’s objective is commercialization of research and co-creation. Hence, a student incubator was launched at the university in 2017 and the Norwegian Research Council granted close to NOK 5 mill in support through the FORNY 2020 program for promoting innovation based on research through a partnership between UiA Innovation and K2 Gründerlab. Flåten also heads the ASEAN Master’s Programme in Sustainability Management, an international double degree programme developed and delivered jointly by the University of Agder and Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia and Norway, with support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Flåten has also served as the Head of Department of Management and Innovation for 12 years and as the Vice Dean for the School of Business and Law for 7 years. From August 2024 Flåten was invited as a Visiting Scholar for ten months to the Madden Center for Value Creation at Florida Atlantic University.
Forskning
Faglige interesser
Strategic management of knowledge work; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Knowledge sharing; Internet-enabled collaboration, Crowdfunding.
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZBfO2tMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Courses taught by Flåten:
- Leadership and Creativity in Hybrid Work Environments (Executive course in EMBA program)
- Leadership in an Intercultural Environment
- Internship in Nordic Enterprises in High-Growth Economies
- Extended Internship in High-growth Economies
- Innovation through Design and Entrepreneurship
- Strategic Management
- Organization Theory
- International Management
- Marketing
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