The PhD program Innovation in Services - Public and Private (INSEPP) aims at contributing to the development of new knowledge in the realm of innovation in public and private sector. The PhD program endeavors to create knowledge through research of the characteristics of service innovation, barriers and driving forces for innovation, innovation processes and effects of service innovations.
About the doctoral degree
The PhD programme Innovation in Services in the Public and Private Sectors (INSEPP) was accredited by NOKUT on December 15, 2011. The PhD education shall contribute to the development of new knowledge about innovation in the public and private service sector. This includes understanding the nature of service innovations, barriers and driving forces for innovation, innovation processes and effects of service innovations.
INSEPPs research focuses on these main areas:
- Innovation processes in the private service industries
- Welfare innovation
- Innovation in municipalities
- Innovation in culture, tourism and adventure industries
- Social entrepreneurship
The doctoral degree includes:
- An approved training part
- Independent research work in collaboration with academic supervisors and other researchers within the field
- A written doctoral thesis based on the research work
- Participation in relevant research environments, nationally and internationally
- Academic dissemination on subjects that are closely linked to the doctoral work
Description of the PhD programme
INSEPP is a part of Inland School of Business and Social Sciences
NORSI – Nordic Research School in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
NORSI - Nordic Research School in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for PhD students in the Nordic countries within the field of innovation and entrepreneurship. NORSI is a network-based research school, where Inland Norway University College has been a partner institution since 2013. Together with its 28 institutional partners, NORSI offers a number of doctoral courses within innovation research. As a PhD candidate at INSEPP you can become a member of NORSI and attend current courses.
International collaboration with Rennes School of Business in France
In 2023, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, CREDS - Center for research on digitalization and sustainablity, and Rennes School of Business (RSB) established a collaboration on joint PhD education, a so-called "double degree". The double degree collaboration means that doctoral candidates are admitted to the doctoral program Innovation in Services in the Public and Private Sectors (INSEPP) at INN University, but the doctoral candidates are linked to both INN University and RSB through a formal agreement. The doctoral candidates conduct PhD courses and have supervisors at both institutions. The PhD candidates who take a "double degree" receive diplomas from both INN University and RSB, where INN University officially awards the PhD candidates the degree of Philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Visit the website Rennes School of Business.
Contact person: Professor Bård Tronvoll
Contact information
- martin.ronningen@inn.no
- Phone
- +47 61 28 83 18
- randi.kvamme@inn.no
- Phone
- +47 61 28 83 72