Ranvir Rai is an associate professor at Kristiania University College and teaches innovation and business design. He has a PhD in innovation and entrepreneurship, and is the study program leader for the bachelor program in service design. Rai's research mainly deals with topics within innovation, and then more specifically innovation management, disruptive innovation and design thinking in service-oriented companies. He has published several scientific articles in international journals on the above-mentioned topics. Rai has more than 10 years of experience from the business world, as a consultant and project manager from global consulting firms such as EY and Accenture and has assisted many of Norway's leading companies in both the private and public sectors.