Swedish Universities are obliged to pursue activities that enhance the probability that our research will have a societal impact by using mechanisms that go beyond those of teaching and publishing. This is a task that takes considerable time, and for which there is no University funding. Yet, RIDE members have a substantial ‘Third Mission’ activity, some of which is funded by RIDE.

Some examples of ‘Third Mission’ activities that RIDE researchers are involved in include:

• Lectures and seminars for policy makers (at various levels), firms, industry associations and other organisations
• Interviews in media (newspapers, TV, radio)
• Participation in working groups organized by policy makers and industry
• Plenary Speeches
• Advisory Boards

• Publishing of debate articles and popular science articles
• Active partner in discussion of policy concerns
• Extensive diffusion activities for policy makers and firms

Below you find some illustrative examples of ‘Third Mission’ activities of members of RIDE.

• Jacobsson, Staffan. Swedish delegate in the EU High Level Group on the competitiveness of the chemical industry
• Lindholm Dahlstrand, Åsa. Expert reviewer of the “The EU Survey on R&D Investment Business Trends” European Commission. Report presented at the “Final Workshop on Specific Support Action “3% Action Plan Implementation Support” (3%APIS)”, European Commission, IPTS JRC and DG Research, Seville, January-February 2008.
• Magnusson, Mats. Chairman of the Continuous Innovation Network (CINet), an international research network with more than 150 members
• Maureen McKelvey is Executive Committee Member of DIME. DIME (Dynamics of Institutions, Markets and Economies) is an EU, Network of Centers of Excellence
• Maureen McKelvey, Enrico Deiaco (Sister/Cesis) and Mats Magnusson (IMIT) organized the conference European Universities Learning to Compete in Stockholm, June 2008. Over 100 persons attended, including a mix of academic leaders, policy-makers and researchers
• Perez Vico, Eugenia. Member of the Swedish delegation in OECD Working Party on Nanotechnology; Impacts on companies and business environments.
• Sandén Björn was asked to become member of a committee that allocates SEK 1 billion for Energy RD&D.

• Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand: Expert reviewer of the “The EU Survey on R&D Investment Business Trends” European Commission. Report presented at the “Final Workshop on Specific Support Action “3% Action Plan Implementation Support” (3%APIS)”, European Commission, IPTS JRC and DG Research, Seville, January 2008
   
• Mats Magnusson: Program Director for the “SKF Business Factory” program at Chalmers Advanced Management Programs (CHAMPS).
   
• Staffan Jacobsson: Inför EU-tull på koldioxid, SvD Brännpunkt, 10.4.2007 ((with Christian Berggren and Staffan Leastadius).
   
• Christian Berggren, Staffan Jacobsson and Staffan Laestadius wrote an article in DN Debatt (a debate forum of the largest Swedish daily newspaper) entitled “A myth that Sweden has reduced the emission of green house gases”. The article was a top news item in both radio and TV on February 27th 2007. 
     
• Mats Magnusson: Chairman of the Continuous Innovation Network (CINet).
   
• Mats Magnusson: Vice President and Academic Program Director of UNITECH International.
   
• Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand: Participated in the expert group of the European Industrial Research and Innovation Monitoring System (EIRIMS), DG Research and DG Enterprise, Bussels, 2006-2007.
   
• Maureen McKelvey has taught within the CICALICS: the China Innovation Circles and Academy – Learning, Innovation and Competence Systems.
  The initiative of CICALICS takes the experience by Bengt-Aake Lundvall, who is now Special Term Professor of Tsinghua University, China, and by academia in Europe and North America. The experience shows that innovation studies can be greatly strengthened when scholars form national and international networks and organise research training together.
  The topic of innovation studies has received increasing support from the political level, from policy makers and business managers. The Academy attracted around 35 Chinese PhD students during August 2006.  http://www.cicalics.org
     
• Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand: Member of VINNOVAs reference group on Innovative SMEs, 2006-2007.
   
• Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand: Member of VINNOVAs program committee for the Key-Actors Program, 2006-2007
• Anna Bergek, Bo Carlsson, Staffan Jacobsson, Sven Lindmark and Annika Rickne were asked to help VINNOVA (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems) to develop a functional analysis of innovation systems and assess the useful of such a framework for guiding policy makers (see project below). The project will be reported in 2005.
     
• Staffan Jacobsson and Björn Sandén were asked by Elforsk to do a study on how to assess various policy instruments to support the formation of a market for solar cells. This study was part of a larger effort organized by the Swedish Energy Agency and we were asked by that Agency to particpate in writing a report for the Ministry of Industry in this matter. The report ‘El från solen – energi & industri I Sverige’ was delivered in June 2004.
     
• Staffan Jacobsson was asked to organize a seminar in the House of Parliament on solar cell policy, November 24th.
     
• Staffan Jacobsson was asked to organize a seminar in the House of Parliament on solar cell policy, November 24th. Four speakers gave presentations: Björn Sandén, Environmental System Analysis at Chalmers and RIDE; Lars Stolt, University of Upsala; Marja Lundgren, White Architects and Staffan Jacobsson, Industrial Dynamics, Chalmers and RIDE.
     
• Staffan Jacobsson was interviewed in Chalmers Magasin, 3 2004 on why windpower has not really made it in Sweden. Staffan Jacobsson was invited speaker at a conference arranged by Elforsk ‘Solceller – från komponent till byggnadselement’ (from component to building element), May 12th, Stockholm
     
• Staffan Jacobsson was invited speaker at the Nordic PV Conference in Stockholm, December 13th
     
• Staffan Jacobsson was invited to be member of the Board of Chalmers Engineering Centre. Staffan Jacobsson was invited to give a lecture on ’functional analysis’ at VINNOVA in January 2004.
     
• Jens Laage-Hellman, Maureen McKelvey and Annika Rickne (Lund) organize the biotechnology network (see website mentioned above). We have 4 meetings a year, including researchers, policy representatives and firms. For example, one in Fall 2004 was held jointly with SPRU, Copenhagen Business School, CIRCLE and RIDE.
     
• On 2 December 2005 The RIDE Network on Management and Economics of Biotechnology arranged a meeting hosted by the Sahlgrenska Science Park (SSP). The theme was “knowledge dynamics and knowledge transfer”. A presentation of SSP by its managing director, Gunilla Bökmark, was taken as starting point for a roundtable discussion on science parks as facilitators of knowledge transfer.
     
• The incubator of SSP is one part of the new, VINNOVA-sponsored regional development project Biomedical Development in Western Sweden. Related to and financed by this project a new research study is now being started up at RIDE. By following this project in real time over several years, the study aims at investigating the mechanisms behind the emergence and growth of regional, sectoral innovation systems. The study is carried out by members of the Network – Jens Laage-Hellman and Maureen McKelvey (Chalmers) and Annika Rickne (Lund University). 
     
• Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand has been appointed member of CRA Expert Group, DG Research, European Commission, from August 2004. Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand has been appointed member of the board for “CPM – Centre for Environmental Assessment of Product and Material Systems”, Chalmers.
     
• Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand has been chairman for the program committee of the VINST research program (by VINNOVA and the Foundation for Strategic Research jointly set up program for research funding.
     
• Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand has been member of the program committee of VINNOVAs research program on “Innovative Logistics and Transportation”. Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand has been member of the Scientific Committee at ”Stiftelsen för Strategisk forskning”.
     
• Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand has been member of the Scientific Council at ”Forum för Småföretagsforskning, FSF”. Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand has participated in the board of ”Föreningen för Framtidens Företag”, (Incubator).
     
• Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand was invited to give a presentation at the UK Workshop on Economic Change, ”Sponsored spin-offs, industrial growth and change” (with M. Wallin)
     
• Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand was invited to give a presentation on “Perspectives on technology-based entrepreneurship”, Conference, FSF Scientific Council and FSF International Council, Tylösand, September 2004.
     
• Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand was invited to give a presentation on ”Industriell Dynamik”, at IMIT 25 year anniversary, Gothenburg, March 2004.
     
• Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand was invited to give a presentation on Technology-based entrepreneurship, for the Expert Group on Constructing Regional Advantage, DG Research, European Commission, Brussels December 7, 2004.
     
• Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand was invited to give a research seminar on “Teknikbaserat entreprenörskap”, SIRE, Högskolan i Halmstad, February, 2004.
     
• Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand was invited to give a speech on ”Teknikbaserat nyföretagande:Vad behöver nyföretagare för att växa?”, CMB (Centrum för Management i Byggsektorn), part of Chalmers 175 year anniversary, Chalmers, October 2004.
     
• Mats Magnusson has been actively involved in organizing and teaching in Executive Education, through the CHAMPS programme. These programmes are located both in Sweden and in various countries around the world.    
     
• Maureen McKelvey was a plenary speaker at the Global Innovation Ecosystem Conference,
  8–9 September 2006, in Kyoto, Japan, hosted by the Science Council of Japan.
  http://www.simul-conf.com/gies/en/index.htm
     
• Maureen McKelvey is Executive Committee Member of DIME. DIME (Dynamics of Institutions, Markets and Economies) is an EU, Network of Centers of Excellence.
     
• Maureen McKelvey is Elected Board member for the International Joseph A. Schumpeter society (2002 - present.
     
• Maureen McKelvey sits on the Advisory Board for the following organizations:
  – CIND, Center for Research on Innovation and Industrial Dynamics, Uppsala
  – The ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC), Manchester
  – The Built Environment Innovation Centre (BEIC), (Innovation Studies Centre) IMPERIAL College, London.
     
• Maureen McKelvey, Staffan Jacobsson, Mats Magnusson Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand, Andrea Bonacorssi and Andrew Davies attended the VINNOVA Conference ‘INNOVATION AND GROWTH IN A GLOBALIZING ECONOMY’ in Stockholm JANUARY 19TH–20TH, 2006. A knowledgebased dialogue about policy for innovation and entrepreneurship and the potential of R&D in future growth and competitiveness.
     
• Maureen McKelvey, Mats Magnusson and Magnus Holmén attended The DRUID Tenth Anniversary Summer Conference on Dynamics of Industry and Innovation: Organizations, Networks and Systems, June 27 -29, 2005, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark, www.druid.dk.
     
• Maureen McKelvey, Staffan Jacobsson, Mats Magnusson and Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand are all Research Fellows at the Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology (IMIT.
     
• Maureen McKelvey gave the plenary speech ‘Appreciative Theorizing and Innovative Opportunities’ at the Fourth European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics (EMAEE). EAMEE conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, May 2005. www.emaee.net. .
     
• Maureen McKelvey gave the plenary speech ‘Innovative Opportunities and Search: Differences amongst firms and industries’, 8th Uddevalla Symposium 2005 &McGill Int. Entrepreneurship Conference, Sept 2005. www.symposium.htu.se/.
     
• Maureen McKelvey organized the workshop ‘Innovation Research and Policy’ with the Dept of Economcis and the Business School at University of Queensland, Australia. The workshop brought together leading innovation researchers with Australian policy-makers, Australian national research council and UQ leaders.
     
• Maureen McKelvey sits on the board for the Chalmers Science Park. Maureen McKelvey gave a lecture on ‘The Economics Dynamics of Modern Biotechnology’ for the ESBRI Lecture series, Stockholm, in October 2004.
     
• Maureen McKelvey was a plenary speaker at the conference ‘Förändringens vindar eller vanans makt?’, Piteå, Sweden, August 2004. This conference was organized by ISA, ITPS, NUTEK and VINNOVA.
     
• RIDE organized a light meal and workshop on the role of universities and science in the region, on 5 October 2004 at Chalmers, Sweden.
     
• Björn Sandén and Karl Jonasson, Miljösystemanlys, Energy and Environment. On 19 October, 2005, the RIDE-seminar ‘Synergies between alternative fuels in Sweden’ was held at Fakultetsvillan, Chalmers, with participants from Chalmers, Volvo Cars, AB Volvo, Saab Automobile, Business Region Göteborg, FramTidsbränslen, Scandinavian Energy Project, ETC Battery and Fuel Cells, BioAlcohol Fuel Foundation, Fordonsgas och Trollhättan Energi.
     
• Björn Sandén and Staffan Jacobsson were asked by Elforsk to do a study on how to assess various policy instruments to support the formation of a market for solar cells. This study was part of a larger effort organized by the Swedish Energy Agency and we were asked by that Agency to participate in writing a report for the Ministry of Industry in this matter. The report 'El från solen - energi & industri I Sverige' (Electricity from the sun: energy and industry in Sweden) was delivered in June 2004.
     
• Björn Sandén gave a consultation at Volvo AB's fuel stategy group on Volvo's alternative fuel strategy, 14/4 2004.
     
• Björn Sandén gave a presentation on "Om konsten att skapa en ny industri. Goda cirklar och politiska utmaningar under framväxten av den tyska solcellsindustrin." at the meeting of the network for hydrogen development in Western Sweden "Elavbrott – ett minne blott? Vätgassatsningar och visioner i Västra Götaland" 18/2 2004.
     
• Björn Sandén was invited give a contribution to Vadstena Forum on Energy 2-4/6 2004: "Are five thousand ants better than four elephants: on soft energy and its destiny, (Är fem tusen myror bättre än fyra elefanter: om den mjuka energin och vart den tog vägen).
     
• Björn Sandén was invited to give a presentation on solar cells and market development programs at the annual meeting of Elforsk, 27/10 2004.
     
• Björn Sandén was invited to give a talk to the Volvo AB's Environmental Council (Miljöråd) on Climatic change and fuel strategies, 14/6 2004.
     
• Björn Sandén was invited to speak about solar cell policy at the Annual Conference of Elforsk, November 27th.
     
• Björn Sandén gave a presentation to the Volvo AB's Environmental Council (Miljöråd) on Climatic change and fuel strategies, 14/6 2004.