Dolores Modic
Associate Professor
Nord University Business School
Dolores works at the Division of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Her research interests are focused on technology transfer and IPR (including IPR management). During recent years she has been foremost conducting research in the field of IPR-based university-industry collaboration and technology transfer. Her other recent interest includes patent informatics (currently PI of an European Patent Office grant) and circular economy.
Dolores has experience from the private and public sector. She was a JSPS Fellow in Japan (2016-2018) and a Fulbright Scholar in U.S.A. (2015).
She has also participated in more than 15 projects (sponsored by funding agencies in Europe, USA and Asia), with various roles: project author, PI, team member and as coordinator. As such, she often works or coordinates (international) teams consisting of individuals from different sectors.
2025
What is a circular economy champion? Defining a home-grown concept in an emerging field 2025 Journal of Cleaner Production - Dolores Modic, Sahana Swaroop Chetan, Shajara Ul-Durar, Noman Arshed, Marco De Sisto, Nadja Damij
Research Handbook of Innovation in the Circular Bioeconomy 2025 - Lars Molden, Dolores Modic, Einar Rasmussen, Siri Jakobsen, Wim Vanhaverbeke
Industrial symbiosis networks supporting circularity: Understanding complexity, cyclicality and resilience 2025 Environmental Technology & Innovation - Urška Fric, Zoran Levnajić, Dolores Modic, Borut Rončević
2024
Challenges and Limitations of Pandemic Information Systems: A Literature Review 2024 IEEE transactions on engineering management - Nadja Damij, Zoran Levnajic, Dolores Modic, Jana Suklan
2023
MSME technology adoption, entrepreneurial mindset and value creation: a configurational approach 2023 Journal of Technology Transfer - James A. Cunningham, Nadja Damij, Dolores Modic, Femi Olan
2022
Activity-to-Skills Framework in the Intellectual Property Big Data Era 2022 IEEE transactions on engineering management - Nadja Damij, Ana Hafner, Dolores Modic
Every Woman Is a Vessel: An Exploratory Study on Gender and Academic Entrepreneurship in a Nascent Technology Transfer System University-Industry Knowledge Interactions. People, Tensions and Impact 2022 - Dolores Modic, Ana Hafner, Tamara Valic Besednjak
An exploratory study of high-performance computing technology adoption over the stages of entrepreneurship 2022 International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing - James A. Cunningham, Nadja Damij, Dolores Modic
Structure of university licensing networks 2022 Scientometrics - Dolores Modic, Borut Luzar, Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi
2021
Towards Measuring Innovation for Circular Economy using Patent Data Research Handbook of Innovation for a Circular Economy 2021 - Dolores Modic, Alan Richard Johnson, Miha Vuckovic
Circular public procurement: innovation tool for municipalities? Research Handbook of Innovation for a Circular Economy 2021 - Elena Dybtsyna, Dolores Modic, Kristina Nikolajeva, Raymond Sørgård Hansen
2020
2019
Innovations in intellectual property rights management: Their potential benefits and limitations 2019 European Journal of Management and Business Economics - Dolores Modic, Ana Hafner, Nadja Damij, Luka Cehovin Zajc
Pay to Play: Connecting University Research Funding to Licensing Outcomes Frontiers of Strategic Alliance Research: Negotiating, Structuring and Governing Partnerships 2019 - Janet Bercovitz, Javier Changoluisa, Maryann P. Feldman, Dolores Modic
2025
Introduction: harnessing innovation for advancing a circular bioeconomy 2025 - Lars Molden, Dolores Modic, Einar Rasmussen, Siri Jakobsen, Wim Vanhaverbeke
2024
Editorial Rethinking Information Technologies and Information Systems - From Informing Pandemic Preparedness to Managing Business Disruptions and Endemic Responses 2024 IEEE transactions on engineering management - Tsan-Ming Choi, Nadja Damij, Jason Cross, Zoran Levnajic, Jiaguo Liu, Dolores Modic, Rahul S. Mor, Jana Suklan, Xuting Sun, Xiaohang Yue
2022
Innovation in the circular public procurement process: understanding the drivers and barriers to early market dialogue 2022 Circular Economy Section - Dolores Modic, Elena Dybtsyna, Hanne Rendal, Solveig Henriksen-Sharp
2021
Circular public procurement – Innovation tool for municipalities? 2021 European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium - Elena Dybtsyna, Dolores Modic, Kristina Nikolajeva, Raymond Sørgård Hansen