Björn Flintberg

Forskare

Tel

+46 10 516 56 55

Email

bjorn.flintberg@ri.se

Location

Göteborg

Björn Flintberg is a researcher and digital strategist. He has more than 20 years of experience in the interactions between the public sector and digital infrastructure and works with learning, skills and the computer games industry and creative industries. He is the head of GameNode, and works with learning efforts such as micro-credentials. and works with är forskare och digital strateg. He has an M.Sc in information technology and is doing his PhD in innovation and enterpreneurship focusing on public innovation support systems for the Swedish computer games industry.

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Data-driven asset management through gamification

The project aims to design and develop a customizable serious game that simulates real-world challenges in the management of Sweden’s water and wastewater infrastructure. It provides a risk-free and engaging environment to promote…

LEVEL UP SWEDISH GAME INDUSTRY

We are working to ensure that the regional and Swedish gaming industries can level up. We will establish a framework for national collaboration, connecting the gaming industry in Sweden with the ultimate goal of challenging indust…

DINO: Demonstrator for Innovation in the Public Sector

Public actors who work with operational and administrative tasks or with issues concerning regulations, do not always have an organization or structure that is suitable for innovation or transformation. To meet the demands placed …

Micro-credentials

As greater investments are made in lifelong learning and skills-enhancing initiatives for professionals, it becomes increasingly important that these initiatives can be documented in a cohesive whole. The project aims to develop a…

Can a game help the water sector improve maintenance planning?

Sweden’s water and wastewater systems are facing major challenges. With a maintenance backlog of SEK 10 billion and an investment need of SEK 560 billion by 2040, new tools are required to anticipate risks and make decisions that …

How micro-credentials can promote lifelong learning

How do we actually show what we know? In a few years' time, we will be able to talk about our competences as pieces of Lego that are constantly being added to, rather than pointing to the courses we have taken. A lot of work is no…

Great potential for the Swedish games industry as a catalyst for innovation

The computer games industry has a technological maturity and a unique innovation process that could drive the Swedish economy and public sector forward. But Sweden must first welcome the industry into the big leagues.

How can digital solutions be used to facilitate lifelong learning?

In the past, annual internal training was required to maintain skills and further develop employees. That is no longer the reality.  As technology development takes off rapidly, skills provision and lifelong learning hav…

Micro-credentials

There is great potential to use micro-credentials to describe competence and strengthen individuals and organizations through digital certificates for competence. For an organization, this is a powerful tool to make existing compe…

Game design, development & gamification

At RISE we work with games from a cross-disciplinary perspective. We design and develop games for a variety of use cases, both for educational and learning (so called educational and serious games), for leisure or to inspire behav…

RISE GameNode

GameNode is a virtual test and demo environment for the gaming industry located at RISE. The purpose is to be able to act as a catalyst and arena for actors linked to the computer game industry