Challenges in Blue Economy
Invited Session: Monday 10th June, 15:30-16:30
Theme
Oceans cover more than 70% of the surface of the earth and provides us with food, energy, and boundless opportunities. As a large amount of the human population is situated close to oceans, they are also associated with risks. These risks have increased as the human population grows, the exploitation of oceans accelerates, and human activity causes detrimental effects on the environment. However, as economic activity in and about oceans increases, there is also new blue technologies, sustainable solutions, research, and global initiatives for ocean governance done on the ocean that leaves us with some optimism about the future of oceans. A few recent initiatives include new monetary and non-monetary initiatives such as market-based blue finance instruments for the regeneration of resources & zero pollution, and nature-based solutions (NBS) including carbon sequestration. To bring some light on current state-of-the-art research we invite you to attend our special session on Challenges in Blue Economy, Marine Technology and Sustainability.
Organizers
Nathalie Lazaric
Nathalie Lazaric is a French economist recognized among the Top 10-15% authors in France and the EU, and Top 4 % women economists worldwide (Repec). She is CNRS Research Professor in Université Côte d’Azur (France) and Visiting Professor at Gothenburg University (U-GOT KIES) in Sweden. President of the EAEPE (European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy), chair of many International scientific committees such as International Schumpeter Society and EGOS (European Group Organizational Studies), advisory Editor of Journal of Evolutionary Economics, editor of the Editor of the REPE-Review of Evolutionary Political Economy of and Senior Editor of Organization Science, she is involved in many initiatives towards citizens, scientific debates in the COP 25 and public debates, press, radio and television to disseminate and transmit her knowledge and expertise to various audiences.
She has published more than 50 articles in top rank journals and involved in several national and European projects on marine conservation, energy consumption, sustainable issues behavioral change and recycling. Her fields include ecological transitions, evolutionary theories, organizational routines, sustainable consumption, ecological innovations and governance, energy and mobility, blue economy.
Linus Brunnström
Linus Brunnström is a Wallander post-doc scholar and visiting research fellow at the Unit for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Gothenburg U-GOT KIES at the School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg University, Sweden, where he also received his Ph.D. degree.
His PhD dissertation analyzed how universities and researchers impact society through different mechanisms, and especially how university incubators help facilitate new knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms and the subsequent survival and growth of the resulting firms. His current research focuses on the blue economy, marine technology, firm survival & growth, and especially on how universities and researchers are involved in all these aspects. He is particularly interested in analyzing how and why sustainable growth can be achieved within knowledge-intensive maritime innovation ecosystems in cooperation between researchers, university, and entrepreneurs. By co-organizing this invited session, he hopes to contribute to these emerging interdisciplinary topics, from a social science perspective, and extend his network.
