Centre for Creative Industries (BI:CCI)

Bille received her PhD degree from University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics in 1996. She is an economist with an interest in arts and culture, making cultural economics and policy her main research areas.

She has published more than 140 books and articles in a variety of outlets. Her work is published in the leading scientific journals of her research field, e.g. Journal of Cultural Economics, International Journal of Cultural Policy, and Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society and general leading journals in social science, e.g. Work, Employment and Society, Economics Letters, Kyklos, Applied Economics and European Planning Studies, as well as book chapters in books published at leading publishers as Routledge, Elsevier Science and Edward Elgar Publishing, including Handbook of the Economics of Arts and Culture (Series Handbook of Economics, Elsevier Science). 

She has been elected as the coming president of ACEI, the Association of Cultural Economics International (the leading academic association of the field) from 2018. She is often a keynote speaker at conferences, and she is often used as consultant and advisor, for e.g. The Royal Danish Theater, The Danish Ministry of Culture, and the Norwegian Ministry of Culture.  

She has to a large extent been responsible for development and management of study programs at CBS. She is currently Program Director and head of the study board for the cand. soc. programs at CBS, covering 6 study programs. 2017-18 she has been responsible for the development of the joint MSc study program in Strategic Design and Entrepreneurship (cand.soc. SDE), which is a collaboration between Copenhagen Business School and The Royal Danish Academy, Schools of Architecture and Design.

She was head of the program 2018-2020. She has been the Program Director and head of the study board for BSc Business Administration and Service Management 2008 – 2016 and developed the program to cover 3 concentration areas: Arts and Culture, Tourism and Hospitality, and Service and Innovation.

Alacovska’s current research interests revolve around the sociology of culture with an emphasis on the power of genres to influence institutional and social relations; the creative labour studies with a special accent on gender inequalities and the critical studies of media organizations.

She is now conducting research on the economic, cultural, and social dynamics of the production of Scandinavian crime fiction within the Danish publishing field. This project, entitled “Masters of Crime: Scandinavian Crime Fiction in a Media Industries Perspective”, is generously funded by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities.

She has been the leader of a large research project on the temporality and informality of post-socialist creative work financially supported through a grant awarded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation through the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.

She is currently Assistant Professor at the Erasmus Rotterdam University, where she coordinates RECHARGE Opens external, a Horizon project that develops participatory business models, and leads the AI Arts and Culture Research Practice as Academic Director of ECDA.

Regarding academic citizenship, Navarrete is part of the interim management of the EIT Culture and Creativity Opens external, an innitiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EITOpens external), she is scientific advisor at the European Group of Museum Statistics (EGMUSOpens external) since 2011, chair of the International Committee of Documentation of the International Council of MuseumsOpens external (CIDOCOpens external), and member of the board of the Association of Cultural Economics.

Regarding dissemination, her research skills are known in the field, where she consults, advises, and evaluates regularly on projects regarding policy, statistics, costs, and strategy of digital heritage to Ministries of Culture, sectoral associations, and (non-profit) organisations. She is regularly invited to give keynote addresses and public lectures in avacemic, sectora, and governmental communitieis. She is cofounder of the academic blog Economists Talk Art Opens external and the Cultural Economics Online SeriesOpens external.

Røyseng is a trained sociologist from the University of Oslo with a doctorate in administration and organizational science from the University of Bergen. She works with issues within cultural policy, art sociology and cultural management.

Terje Gaustad's research interests are within creative competences and the creative industries. He has done most of his research and published on strategic storytelling, project strategy, production management, project financing, and media rights transactions.

He holds a PhD in Strategic Management from BI Norwegian Business School, where he also taught cultural management from 2005. He also developed and established the school's executive programs within production management and strategic storytelling.

Gaustad is also Associate Partner at Menon Economics, where he has led research and evaluation projects for, among others, the Norwegian Ministry of Culture, the Norwegian Producers Association, and Nordisk Film & TV Fond.

Gaustad also has a professional background from the film industry in the USA, Great Britain, and Switzerland. His work was primarily in international distribution and film financing, and produced the feature films Nasty Neighbors (1999), The Rebel (2001), and Save Angel Hope (2007).