Center for Creative Industries (BI:CCI)

Gran has worked at the University of Oslo, NTNU and at Århus University. She has been a theatre critic and commentator for Morgenbladet, and a member of the Norwegian Arts Council’s Commission for performing arts. In 2007 she started the culture analytics company, Perduco Kultur AS, where she was partner and CEO for five years. Gran has researched diverse culture-related topics, including cultural sponsorships, aesthetisation of the economy, theatre organizations, cultural policy, digitization, and digital culture consumption.

He has also led and developed BI’s executive programme in Management of film, TV and stage productions. Between 1999 and 2004, Gaustad worked as researcher at the Centre for Media Economics at BI. He has broad experience from the International movie industry and currently leads Vanquish Alliance Entertainment AG, a Swiss movie finance and production company he co-founded in 2001.

He received his PhD in Cultural Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, following studies in fine art, economics and finance at University of Melbourne, London School of Economics, and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Peter currently contributes the EU H2020 funded project, Artsformation, a research project exploring the intersection between arts, society and technology, and the potential of the arts to intervene in critical social issues connected to digital transformation. His research broadly covers sociology of art and finance, artist labour, structural and environmental change in the creative sector, and the interactions between technologies and the arts and museum sectors.

She has lectured at BI since 2006 in the Bachelor’s programme for PR and market communications and in journalism. Mona has been co-responsible for the BI executive program in Digital Communications Management since 2012. Change within the media industry is her primary area of research. Solvoll recently published the book Medieøkonomi: konflikt og samspill together with BI colleague Tor Bang (2014).

Farstad is also a musician, playing the accordion in concerts both in Norway and internationally together with several renowned artists.

Since the relocation of BI’s campuses to Nydalen in 2005, Bang has worked at BI’s Department for Communication and Culture. He has written and edited a range of books about marketing communication and media, his latest addition being Medieøkonomi: Konflikt og samspill, co-edited with Mona Solvoll and co-written with the media scholars Arne Krumsvik, Jens Barland and Johann Roppen (2014).

Furseth is a leadership and innovation researcher and teacher with 20 years of experience. 

His speciality is to integrate executive education with research, workshops and professional networks. Peder´s main topics in research are service innovation, business models, innovation culture, multi-channel integration, social networks, and value formation. His main teaching is the master of management program called Innovation & Commercialization (Nyskaping og kommersialisering), a 150 hour course that has modules both in Oslo and in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Her major research interests are business history, from the late 18th Century to the present, and the history of modern consumer culture. She has done historical research on a broad range of topics: industry and manufacturing, knowledge, technology and expertise, retail and insurance, consumption, sales and advertising, and the media industry. Her research also includes cultural history in a wide sense, and her latest work was on Sigrid Undset, the office worker who became a renowned novelist and intellectual, awarded the Nobel Price for Literature in 1928. 

Her PhD  "Digital or physical, streaming or turning pages? Digitization, diffusion and diversity in the book industry. A Norwegian Case" is a study how the digitalization of the Norwegian bookindustry affected spread and diversity. Kampen Kristensen has worked at BI since September 2020, and is responsible for the courses Kommunikasjon i sanntid, bærekraftig eventledelse and ledelse av kunst og kreativ næring. 

She also teaches several courses in creative industry, internship and communication. 

She has also studied acting at The Academy of Theatre in Oslo (1982-85), and still occasionally works as an actor. Eidsvold Tøien is currently employed as Associate Professor at BI Norwegian Business School, where she teach in Copyright for creative industries and participates in Digitization and Diversity in the film group.