Good academic leadership requires both disciplinary legitimacy and practical preparation. Universities should develop their leaders before they are given responsibility for staff, budgets, and institutional direction.

Norway is good at bringing researchers and industry together, yet many promising results never progress from prototype to lasting use. In a new opinion piece in Teknisk Ukeblad, Prof. Christoph Trattner argues that innovation often fails in the transitions and calls for shared ownership, continuous testing and collaboration from the very beginning.