Bjørn L. Basberg

E-mail:

Bjorn.Basberg

Telephone:

+ 47 559 59675

Fax:

+ 47 559 59543

Title:

Professor,  dr. oecon

Nationality:

Norwegian

Teaching areas:

Undergraduate and master:

Norwegian and international economic history

Research:

Maritime economic history (whaling and shipping), history of patents and intellectual property institutions, history of technology and industrial archaeology

• “Amateur or professional? A new look at 19th century patentees in Norway”.  Discussion Paper SAM 12/2012.
• "A Crisis that Never Came. The Decline of the European Antarctic Whaling Industry in the 1950s and -60s. Discussion Paper SAM 9/2011.

• “The 19th Century Antarctic Sealing Industry. Sources, Data and Economic Significance” (with R.K. Headland), Paper presented at the SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference – Polar Research- Arctic and Antarctic Perspectives in the International Polar Year, St. Petersburg, 2008, Discussion Paper 21/08, Department of Economics, NHH.

Selected publications :

• "Antarctic Tourism and the Maritime Heritage" International Journal of Maritime History, XXII, No. 2 2010.
•  "Hegemonic Transition: American and Norwegian Whaling In the 19th and 20th Century”, International Journal of Maritime History, XX, No.2-2008. 
• "Patenting and Early Industrialization in Norway, 1860-1914. Was there a Linkage?". Scandinavian Economic History Review, Vol. 54, No. 1-2006.
• "Perspectives on the Economic History of the Antarctic Region". International Journal of Maritime History, XVIII, No. 2-2006.
• The Shore Whaling Stations at South Georgia. A Study in Antarctic Industrial Archaeology, Novus Press, Oslo 2004.
• “A Ship Ashore? Organisation and Living Conditions at South Georgia Whaling Stations, 1904-1960”. International Journal of Maritime History, XIX, No. 1- 2002. 
• ”Convergence or national styles? The British-Norwegian hegemony and the Japanese challenge in the twentieth century whaling industry”. Research in Maritime History, No. 14-1998.
• "Creating a patent system in the European periphery. The case of Norway, 1839-1860”. Scandinavian Economic History Review, Vol. 45, No.2-1997.
• Whaling and History. Perspectives on the evolution of the industry, Sandefjord 1993,(co-edited with J.E. Ringstad and E. Wexelsen).
• Nortraship. Alliert og konkurrent, Oslo 1993.
• “Patents and the measurement of technological change. A survey of the literature", Research Policy, Vol.16, 1987. 
• Patenter og teknologisk endring i Norge 1840-1980. En metodediskusjon om patentdata anvendt som teknologi-indikator. NHH, Bergen 1984
• "Foreign patenting in the U.S. as a technology indicator. The case of Norway". Research Policy, Vol.12, No.4-1983.

Visiting professor/visiting scholar:

University of Cambridge, 2007/08.
Brown University, Providence, R.I., 2000/01.
National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass., 1986.
M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass., 1981/82

Other interests/involvements:

Advisory curator, the Kendall Institute, New Bedford Whaling Museum, Mass.
Trustee, South Georgia Heritage Trust