Birte Hansen

Manager Strategic Partnerships - dScience

• Manage and nurture relationships between dScience and its partner organizations within the partner program.
• Serve as a liaison and facilitator between University of Oslo researchers and external collaboration partners.
• Work closely with center management to develop and oversee the partner program¡¯s workplan and project portfolio.
• Collaborate with researchers, partners, and center leadership to develop project concepts and prepare funding proposals.
• Contribute to joint projects in roles ranging from contributor to project manager.
• Leader of the NORA.startup steering group
• Project Leader Innovation Roadmap Project (A roadmap for academic research-intensive innovation) 

Background

• Innovation and Industry Coordinator, Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium (NORA.ai). 2021-2024
• Project Manager, Norwegian Business Association Singapore. 2020-2021
• Marketing Manager, TalentKraft AS. 2020-2021
• Executive Officer, Norwegian Business Association China. 2015-2016

Education

• Ph.D Fellow at Roskilde University and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences: "Digital Entrepreneurship: Transforming and Creating Enterprises in Digital China". 2016-2019. 
• MS.c Copenhagen Business School and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences: Public Management and Social Development. Title of thesis: Female Entrepreneurship in transitional China: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Motivations and Challenges. 2014-2016
• BA Hons. University of Portsmouth. International Development Studies and Languages (Chinese). 2010-2014