Taran Thune

Biographic Data

ID1500833
NAMETaran Thune
GIVEN NAMESTaran
FAMILY NAMEThune
SIGNATURETHUNE T
AFFILIATIONSTIK Center for Technology Innovation and Culture University of Oslo PO Box 1108 Blindern N-0317 Oslo Norway
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2027
H-INDEX1

  • Policy-as-practice

    Open AccessSabine de Graaff, Silje Marie Svartefoss et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Innovation and…2027

    While research on the politics of transitions has examined power dynamics, coalitions, and value contestations, the ‘hidden’ sides of operational governance, such as micro-political dynamics, strategies and tensions within decision-making spaces, remained largely underexplored. Considering the increased attention to politics in the governance of sustainability transitions, we argue for a better understanding of the complex, often messy policy pro…

  • Becoming Similar, but Drifting Apart

    Open AccessTaran Thune, Taran M Thune et al.ARTICLEMinerva2025References: 3

    Many national research and innovation systems include higher education institutions and public research organizations (PRO) with different mandates and tasks. This paper investigates what happens to the relationship between a university and a PRO when they are increasingly pushed towards fulfilling similar tasks and functions. We investigate this through a historical case study of the relationship between a university and a PRO within the field o…

  • Populating the science-policy co-production space

    Open AccessTaran Thune, Taran M Thune et al.ARTICLEStudies in Higher Education2023References: 29

    In this paper, we seek to provide a fresh perspective on knowledge exchange by addressing both academics’ and policymakers’ experiences with such exchange. Through two large Norwegian surveys of academics and policymakers, we look at the characteristics of the academics that are engaged in various forms of knowledge exchange with policymakers – and vice versa – as well as the channels and mechanisms of knowledge exchange seen from both sides. Thr…

  • Situated Knowledge Spillovers

    Open AccessMarkus M Bugge, Taran Thune et al.ARTICLEGeografiska Annaler Series B…2016References: 10

    Theorizing within the umbrella of evolutionary economic geography (EEG) has improved the understanding of how inter‐firm relatedness conditions knowledge spillovers, and how this affects the long‐term evolution of regions. Still, there are shortcomings in this approach associated with a quantitative and generic methodology, a static notion of relatedness, and a weakly developed policy and institutional perspective. In particular, there is a need …

  • Assessing the quality of PhD dissertations. A survey of external committee members

    Svein Kyvik, Taran Thune et al.ARTICLEAssessment & Evaluation in Higher…2015

    This article reports on a study of the quality assessment of doctoral dissertations, and asks whether examiner characteristics influence assessment of research quality in PhD dissertations. Utilising a multi-dimensional concept of quality of PhD dissertations, we look at differences in assessment of research quality, and particularly test whether prior relationship to supervisor, examiners' assessment experience and the regional affiliation of ex…

  • The Training of “Triple Helix Workers”? Doctoral Students in University–Industry–Government Collaborations

    Open AccessTaran Thune, Taran M ThuneARTICLEMinerva2010Cited by: 4References: 5

  • The Ambiguous Quality Agenda in Norwegian Higher Education Policies

    Taran Thune, Taran M Thune et al.ARTICLEEuropean Education2002References: 3

    Quality has been a ubiquitous issue in European higher education policy over the last decade. In country after country the issue of higher education quality has been raised, and consequently reforms to ensure and develop quality have been implemented. In Norway, quality as a focal point in higher education policy appeared rather late as compared to other European countries. Specific policies and efforts directed to assuring quality of Norwegian h…