Engage

Director at Engage and Associate Professor at NTNU. Torgeir has a PhD from NTNU focusing on assessment of entrepreneurship education. 

Marianne is an Associate Professor at Nord University Business School and leader of Engage at Nord. Her academic interests include entrepreneurial finance, innovation and entrepreneurship education. Marianne`s work within Engage include teaching, research and development within innovation and entrepreneurship education.

Håvard has a background in education and mentoring and is responsible for website management and social media at Engage.

Project manager at Engage and Nord University, focusing on student innovation, social media and administrative work. Line graduated in 2019 with a Master of Science in Business, specializing in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Site Manager for the Student Innovation Ecosystem at NTNU, centered around “Gruva”.

Researcher at Engage and Professor at NTNU School of Entrepreneurship. Her research interests include incubators, entrepreneurship education and early customer relationships. In Engage, she has primarily organized courses and seminars for the PhD students as well as book-projects, special issues and conferences.

Researcher at Engage, involved in e.g. the Train-the-trainer-initiatives for all disciplines. With a background in counselling, Gunhild is also interested in relational dynamics in entrepreneurship education, particularly in teamwork.

Researcher at Engage, trained as a nurse, with a PhD focused on entrepreneurship education for nursing students.

Innovation Manager at Engage and Faculty of Economics and Management.

Teaching entrepreneurship at NTNU School of Entrepreneurship and the SHIFT program (University of Agder). Works on projects such as SUPER, ENHANCE and FABRIC, and researches student entrepreneurship and venture creation programs. Has been involved in initiatives like Spark, FRAM and DRIV.

Fufen Jin is a researcher and analyst in Engage. Prior to joining Engage, Fufen has undertaken numerous research projects ranging from child language and literacy development to STEM education. She has extensive experience in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data. Fufen holds a PhD in Linguistics from NTNU.

Associate professor at the NTNU School of Entrepreneurship. Ingrids has a BA in Industrial Design from AHO, and a MBA from Nord University. She is the CEO and founder of the company Ingrid Oline.

Associate Professor at Nord University Business School. She teaches entrepreneurship and teamwork at the master level at Nord University Business School. She conduct research related to new venture teams, learning processes and entrepreneurship education. Her Phd is on new venture team processes in venture creation programs.

Jakob works to strengthen and stimulate the innovation ecosystem at Nord University through his roles as an organizer, advisor, mentor, and guest lecturer. He holds a Master’s degree in Entrepreneurship and Business Development, with a background in economics. As a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of companies such as Eagle AI and Sørensen Gyro, he brings extensive practical experience that complements his academic expertise.

PhD candidate with interest in nascent new venture teams and how they handle uncertainty and deal with uncertainty in their team process.

Lidia researches entrepreneurs’ career attachment, entrepreneurship education, firm performance, and ownership entry. Her PhD examined alternative pathways into ownership and their connection to entrepreneurs’ characteristics and career trajectories. Her project looks at how entrepreneurship education affects students’ career choices and trajectories.

PhD-student within entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainable development. She graduated with a Master of Science in Business at Nord University Business School in 2017 with a specialization in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Malin will mainly contribute to Engage Students and documentation of impact from centre activities. She holds a PhD in Linguistics and has a background from our partner Experts in Teamwork.

Mikhail is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, and his research interests are particularly focused on impact entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship support, social relationships, and emotions in entrepreneurship.

Nils Magne finished his PhD at NMBU in 2024 with the title “Putting entrepreneurial competencies to work : an exploration of the early careers of entrepreneurship education graduates .”

Postdoctoral Fellow after finishing her PhD from 2024: “Social interaction in student entrepreneurs’ experience-based learning processes.”

Professor at NTNU and Adjunct Professor at Nord University Business School. His main research interests include entrepreneurial finance and entrepreneurship education. Roger is one of the founders of the NTNU School of Entrepreneurship.

The title of her Ph.D. thesis was ”Team entrepreneurial passion and its influence on team performance, opportunity recognition, opportunity exploitation, and well-being”. The purpose was to explore how experiencing collective passion among entrepreneurial teams affects team performance and entrepreneurial outcomes in the early stage of entrepreneurship. Her research interests include entrepreneurial teams, entrepreneurial passion, emotions, as well as the psychosocial aspects of individual and team levels in entrepreneurship and their influence on entrepreneurial behavior and outcomes.

Tove is a Senior Advisor at Nordland Hospital and Managing Director of Inovacare. At Engage, Nord University, she works to connect academia, healthcare services, and industry through research, innovation, and educational activities. Her focus is on strengthening innovation capabilities in healthcare and advancing the development, implementation, and scaling of new solutions.
A pharmacist by training, Tove holds a PhD in Pharmacy and an MBA in Strategy and Leadership. She has experience in pharmaceutical development and academia-industry collaboration.

Trine is a PhD fellow at Engage and Nord University. Her prior work experience spans from a technology start-up, via software testing, to student advising. Her research interests include innovation and entrepreneurship education, sustainability, team work, learning, mindset and the regional role of the universities in educating change agents.

Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Adjunct Professor at Nord University Business School. Øystein is one of the founders of the NTNU School of Entrepreneurship.

Interests within assessment in the context of entrepreneurship education and how assessment in more complex courses, with authentic cases and complex problems and ambiguity looks like. Also interested in the impact of AI on higher education and especially assessment practices.