One of NVWN’s final project activities was to produce a policy report related to the virtual world / Immersive Internet industry in the Nordic Region for the project’s primary co-financier, Nordic Innovation. The report’s primary author is NVWN member: Dominic Power, who is Professor of Economic Geography at Uppsala University. Dominic’s research is primarily on [...]
Research Meets Practice Seminar Funded by The Strategic Research Council, Denmark (KINO Committee) When: Friday, May 11, 2012 from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm Where: Copenhagen Business School, Room K150, Kilevej 14A, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Livestream: http://bambuser.com/v/2632522 Selling and marketing virtual worlds has never been a problem when it comes to games and social media. [...]
The video Cross-media Storytelling explores cross-media in multimedia and film production practices and how such practices cross genre conventions and media platforms (such as film, virtual worlds, interactive games, video, online social media, and printed and ebooks). The video shows highlights of a half-day seminar held at Roskilde University, Denmark in December 2011 as part [...]
On Thursday, Jan 19, 11:30 to 13:00 CET / 2:30 to 4:00 am SLT, Björn-Tore Flåten and Robin Teigland will present the NVWN – Nordic Virtual Worlds Network project to the project’s primary financial sponsor, Nordic Innovation. As described on its homepage, Nordic Innovation is a Nordic institution working under the auspices of the Nordic [...]
One objective of the NVWN project was to create a Virtual Center for 3D Internet entrepreneurship and innovation. One of the reasons for this was that we observed that many 3D Internet efforts were conducted in innocent isolation from one another. As already announced, on Wednesday, November 9, 2011, the Virtual Center for Entrepreneurship and [...]
NVWN would like to invite you to a “Discussion on a Monthly Seminar Initiative” to discuss the possibilities for establishing an informal monthly seminar/presentation at NVWN’s newly launched Virtual Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The turnout at the launch last Wednesday revealed quite an interest in the topic of entrepreneurial activities in virtual worlds, and [...]
On Wednesday, November 9, NVWN – the Nordic Virtual Worlds Network (www.nordicworlds.net), launched the VCEI – Virtual Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Invitations had been sent to the NVWN members and the Euroversity network and posted on various mailing lists. Around 25 individuals showed up via Second Life and joined the launch. In addition, the [...]
The Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Agder (www.uia.no/sfe) is pleased to invite you to a seminar that focuses on entrepreneurship in virtual worlds. With a growing number of new IT platforms facilitating interaction, the importance of geographical distance is reduced. However, it is a paradox that the need for face-to-face meetings seems to [...]
Time: November 9, 15:00 to 17:00 (CET) / 6:00 am to 8:00 am SLT Inworld Location: VCEI on SSE Island in Second Life Livestreamed on NVWN’s channel Many 3D Internet efforts are conducted in innocent isolation from one another. Instead of reinvention of the wheel, wasted resources and lost innovation opportunities, the goal of the [...]
A reminder about checking out this great workshop… wish I were in California right now: Program for ‘Explosions of Virtuality’ Stanford University, October 3-5 2011 The seminar includes a film screening of the Danish “My Avatar and Me” (http://myavatarandme.com/) one of the cases explored in our current case studies on entrepreneurship.
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