Stig-Erik Jakobsen

Honored and thrilled to have been awared the 2023 Jim Lewis Prize together with my esteemed Co-authors @runenjos @euyarra and Arnt Fløysand journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Path tracing in the Norwegian salmon industry by @StigSjak for @geoinno2024

British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump? A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.” -Nate White

Korleis skal @hvl_no bidra til innovasjon og bærekraftig utvikling? Rolla som engasjert universitet kjem med ei rekke dilemma. Som universitet trengs ein høg grad av refleksjon kring det vi gjer, for å bidra til det beste for samfunnet. hvl.no/aktuelt/kor-en…

@Svein_Sjotun @MarteCWSolheim Congrats! The editorial (and the contributions) are great examples on how to expand the RRI/RI literature. Mandatory reading for all those that are into the field of responsible innovation 😎👏

The Mohn Centre is happy to announce the upcoming Out of the Box seminar on “The geography of discontent and the regional development trap in Europe” by @rodriguez_pose The seminar is open to all. hvl.no/en/calendar/op…

@OmdahlEspen @peterhook @stephenpdmorris @gillian_gilbert Fantastisk episode👏 👏👏Og Low-Life er fortsatt beste platen som ble utgitt på 80-tallet 🤓

Ny artikkel i @Fpolitikk sammen med @lars_coenen @MarteCWSolheim Arne Isaksen og Jarle Aarstad om hvordan pandemien har påvirket grønn omstilling @Fpolitikk fpol.no/koronapandemie…

A stellar presentation from @tsouri_maria at #RSAWinter on regional capabilities and eco-innovations during Covid @MohnCentre

@OmdahlEspen Litt på siden 😎 men Ropstad leverte i den våte byen

Phil Cooke, adjunct professor at the Mohn Centre, kick off the Regional Innovation Policies conference in Padova, in great style

@MIOIR @euyarra Congratulations Elvira !

📣We are delighted to officially announce that Prof Elvira Uyarra (@euyarra) has been appointed as the Executive Director of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research. Read here: manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/…

@JonNiklas @panopaul Joakim Thåstrøm😎

@panopaul Takk. Imperiet eller Ebba Grön. Hvem var størst?

Twitterhjelp: Kan noen tipse meg om en gruppe, som f.eks Beatles, som bare holdt på i kort tid (Beatles i ti år), men som rakk å gjøre et enormt popkulturelt avtrykk tross kort levetid som band/ensemble? Enten musikk eller humor?

Innlegg i @DN_no sammen med Jarle Aarstad: Pandemien bremset den grønne omstillingen i norske bedrifter | DN dn.no/innlegg/korona…

It is a great honour that my first paper has been awarded the Best Paper in @RegionalStudies' 'Urban and Regional Horizons' section! Excellent supervision, constructive reviewers and good editing were key. Thank you @StigSjak @runenjos @DrJWHarrison!

Ever hear the one about the fan who stole one of the penalty spots at Elland Road and turned it into a craft ale? The weird and wonderful world of Leeds United-themed beers: theathletic.com/3215980/2022/0…

🤩 "Gelhardt is the hero!"

@LUFC At the end of the day, it is all about the incoming dollars. Sadly, you are just like the other businessmen in modern football

A message from our Chairman

@SaeedMSaman @runinproject Congratulations Saeed👏

Glad to start 2022 with a new publication on #HigherEducationPolicy. The paper emphasizes differing levels of essentiality of #AcademicDisciplines and context for #IntersectoralEngagement. With thanks to @runinproject for the support. dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/hegp/is…