Peter Nicolai Arbo (born 22 August 1953,

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) is a Norwegian social scientist, and professor at the Norwegian College of Fishery Science at the

University of Tromsø The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway ( Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway ...

Work

Arbo has served as a board member at the University of Tromsø and as a member of several government commissions, including the Government Commission for Higher Education 2006–2008 (also known as the Stjernø Commission after its chairman

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), which presented its report on the development of Norwegian higher education in a 20-year perspective in 2008, and of the EEA Review Committee, which was appointed by the government in 2010 to review Norway's agreements with the EU. He is the vice chairman of the board of the Industrial Development Corporation of Norway, appointed by the government. He is also the chairman of the programme board of the

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research programme Democracy and Governance in a Regional Context. His research areas are

innovation Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services. ISO TC 279 in the standard ISO 56000:2020 defines innovation as "a new or changed enti ...

, regional development, public policy and planning, and the Northern and Arctic areas. He has also been a guest lecturer for the diplomatic trainee programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He studied

regional planning Regional planning deals with the efficient placement of land-use activities, infrastructure, and settlement growth across a larger area of land than an individual city or town. Regional planning is related to urban planning as it relates land ...

at the

, and attended the

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1981–1982 (Promotion

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Dieter Mahncke Dieter Mahncke (born 1941 in South-West Africa) is a scholar of foreign policy and security studies, and Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Professor Emeritus of European Foreign Policy and Security Studies at the College of Europe. He is the ...

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, ''The College of Europe. Fifty years of service to Europe'',

, Bruges, 1999. In 1985, he obtained the cand.polit. degree at the University of Tromsø, with a thesis on the structuring of labour markets.

Books

* Peter Arbo, Tove Bull and Ådne Danielsen: ''Utdanningssamfunnet og livslang læring'', Gyldendal 2013, * Peter Arbo and Bjørn Hersoug: ''Oljevirksomhetens inntog i nord – næringsutvikling, politikk og samfunn'', Gyldendal 2010, * Peter Arbo and Hallgeir Gammelsæter: ''Innovasjonspolitikkens scenografi – nye perspektiver på næringsutvikling'', Tapir 2004,

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Arbo, Peter
University of Tromsø {{DEFAULTSORT:Arbo, Peter Academic staff of the University of Tromsø University of Tromsø alumni College of Europe alumni People from Bodø Living people 1953 births