CBS research granted DKK 16 million

The Danish Social Science Research Council (DSSRC) under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation has just granted four CBS research projects DKK 15.6 million.

Innovation process study granted approx DKK 8 million

Professor Keld Laursen from the Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics has received just under DKK 8 million, which is to be spent on establishing a new research unit. So far, DSSRC has only granted three research units, this being the first at CBS. Recent research has shown that businesses increasingly use external sources of knowledge such as suppliers, customers, universities and competitors in order to promote innovation, and Keld Laursen is going to study this phenomenon in more detail.

- On the face of it, it would seem that the bigger the cooperation, the bigger the pay-off innovation-wise. The process has proven to be more complex than that because the businesses use a lot of in-house resources to transform the external knowledge, Keld Laursen says and adds that they run the risk of knowledge leakages. Those factors will be studied in the course of the project.

The social responsibility in research

Associate Professor Maja Horst from the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy has been granted just under DKK 4 million to the study of social responsibility in research. In general, the interest in the research-society relationship is increasing.

- Traditionally, Denmark has been known to be a country where social implications of research are discussed. In other countries, especially within the EU, the interest is increasing – but in Denmark, we have also rediscovered the interest in research communication, for instance. However, we do not know much about the way in which researchers think about social responsibility in terms of their projects, Maja Horst says.

The project's field of study is the research environments in the US, the UK and Denmark. The aim is to see whether or not researchers take social responsibility into account when deciding which areas to study.

Funds for basic research and IT application

Assistant Research Professor Battista Severgnini from Centre for Economics & Business Research has been granted DKK 2 million to the study of the way in which businesses may use IT to generate new ideas and increase productivity. Danish economy is used as a case with the aim of studying the characteristics of the businesses that are successfully implementing new technology.

Moreover, Professor Ruth Nielsen from the Law Department’s basic research project on EU law has been granted just under DKK 2 million.

In 2009, DSSRC received a total of 142 applications totalling DKK 393 million. The funds at the Council's disposal amounted to DKK 57 million. Read more about the grants from DSSRC here