Areas of responsibility
Maren Songe Eriksen works as a Ph.D. research fellow at the Department of Working Life and Innovation at the School of Business and Law at UiA. She is authoring her doctoral dissertation as part of the project "Innovation Policy for Grand Societal Challenges". Her supervisor is Professor Arne Isaksen.
Eriksen holds a master’s degree in Innovation and Knowledge Development from the University of Agder, and has worked as a research assistant at the University of Agder and NORCE Norwegian Research Centre.
Eriksen is researching regional innovation, and her research concentrates on the topics of economic geography, innovation and regional industrial development. She is particularly interested in how industries emerge and develop in different geographical contexts and what promotes or inhibits innovation activities in industries and their regional contexts.
Eriksen is a member of the RIST (Research Centre for Studies of Innovation for Sustainable Transition) research centre at UiA. She has also participated in the project "Regional Resilience and Sustainable Industrial Restructuring" which is a project with the purpose of mapping and explain the uneven economic resilience to the COVID-19 crisis in industries and regions. Eriksen has also worked with the NCE Eyde Cluster on the development of industrial symbiosis in European regions.
Eriksen is enthusiastic about disseminating research and participated in Researchers' Grand Prix in Agder in 2022 where she presented the audience and jury with her research on green transition processes in the Grenland region in Norway. As part of the participation, Eriksen took part in a training program on general outreach of research over the duration of several months.
Research
Academic interests
Eriksen's research is focused on regional industrial development and innovation. She is particularly interested in how industries emerge and develop in different geographical contexts and what promotes or inhibits innovation activities in industries and their regional contexts. The research is mainly theoretically based case studies with the aim of developing concepts and theories that contribute to a better understanding of various aspects of regional development and innovation. Her most recent work addresses agency and asset modification processes as key factors for regional restructuring.
General outreach
Eriksen participated in Researchers' Grand Prix in Agder in 2022 where she presented the audience and jury with her research on green transition processes in the Grenland region in Norway. As part of the participation, Eriksen took part in a training program on general outreach of research over the duration of several months.
Short biography
Eriksen has previous to her PhD-position worked as a research assistant at NORCE and the University of Agder.