Member - Lotte Darsø

Lotte is a researcher, consultant, lecturer and author. Her main areas of interest are creativity and innovation as well as Arts-in-Business.

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Lotte is an acknowledged conference speaker and facilitator both nationally and internationally. This was evident in her invitation as a Forum Fellow to the annual Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum in January 2004, where she moderated the workshop "If an Artist ran your business ." and participated as a panellist and discussant leader in the session "Creativity as Comparative Advantage".

Lotte has been research manager at The Creative Alliance consortium Learning Lab Denmark since 2003, where she has overall responsibility for developing collaborative and explorative research with public and private organisations on the learning potential of the interplay between arts and business.

Before joining Learning Lab Denmark , Lotte worked as innovation advisor at the Danish Centre for Management, as innovation coach at Novozymes A/S, as researcher at Novo Nordisk A/S and as external lecturer and facilitator at the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Copenhagen Business School .

Lotte has a B.A. and a M.A. degree in Psychology from Copenhagen University and an industrial Ph.D. in Innovation from the Institute of Management , Philosophy and Politics, Copenhagen Business School in cooperation with Novo Nordisk A/S. In 2000 she was awarded the industrial Ph.D. prize for her Ph.D., and in 2001 she published her Ph.D. findings on how innovation is conceived in multidisciplinary project groups in the book "Innovation in the Making". Lotte has written numerous papers and articles on creativity, innovation and Arts-in-Business.

Lotte is a board member of various committees. In Denmark she is on the Advisory Board of NyX Innovation Alliances, of ArtLab 'Moving Arts and Business' and of IKI, the Initiative for Creativity and Innovation. Lotte has furthermore been involved in the Danish government committees on Incubation Environments and on developing the vision and organisational structure of Learning Lab Denmark .