Blar i UiS Brage på forfatter "Fitjar, Rune Dahl"
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Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis
Grillitsch, Markus; Sotarauta, Markku; Asheim, Bjørn Terje; Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Haus-Reve, Silje; Kolehmainen, Jari; Kurikka, Heli; Lundquist, Karl-Johan; Martynovich, Mikhail; Monteilhet, Skirmante; Nielsen, Hjalti; Nilsson, Magnus; Rekers, Josephine V.; Sopanen, S.; Stihl, Linda (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper investigates the role of human agency in 40 phases of regional economic development in 12 Nordic regions over 30 years. It contributes with a theoretical framework to study agency over time and a fuzzy-set ... -
The black box of regional growth
Grillitsch, Markus; Martynovich, Mikhail; Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Haus-Reve, Silje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Regional growth models leave a large share of variation unexplained. While we should continuously aim to improve these models, the unique combination of conditions and human agency in each region will also invariably lead ... -
Contextualizing the role of universities to regional development: introduction to the special issue
Benneworth, Paul; Fitjar, Rune Dahl (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-03)Universities are increasingly expected to provide contributions to regional innovation and economic development processes. Despite much work on how universities can contribute to regional growth processes, there is much ... -
Decentralisation, quality of government and economic growth
Muringani, Jonathan; Fitjar, Rune Dahl (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The effect of decentralisation on regional economic growth is a hotly debated topic. In theory, decentralisation should entail welfare benefits by bringing government closer to the people. In practice, the benefits of ... -
Does Assimilation Shape the Economic Value of Immigrant Diversity?
Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Cooke, Abigail; Kemeny, Tom (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04)A growing literature has shown that greater diversity among immigrants offers material benefits in terms of higher wages and productivity. One limitation of existing work is that it has considered immigrants from a given ... -
Does combining different types of collaboration always benefit firms? Collaboration, complementarity and product innovation in Norway
Haus-Reve, Silje; Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-03)Product innovation is widely thought to benefit from collaboration with both scientific and supply-chain partners. The combination of exploration and exploitation capacity, and of scientific and experience-based knowledge, ... -
DUI it yourself: Innovation and activities to promote learning by doing, using, and interacting within the firm
Haus-Reve, Silje; Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Implicitly or explicitly, much innovation policy treats investments in research and development (R&D) as the main input to innovation. A large body of literature in innovation studies has challenged this, highlighting the ... -
Engaging for the love of place? The role of place attachment in academics’ regional engagement efforts
Atta-Owusu, Kwadwo; Fitjar, Rune Dahl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The third mission of universities is often conceived as a regional one, encompassing contributions to regional development and engagement with regional actors. Yet, universities are increasingly global institutions with ... -
From high‑tech clusters to open innovation ecosystems: a systematic literature review of the relationship between science and technology parks and universities
Sandoval Hamón, Leyla A.; Peñalver, Soraya M. Ruiz; Thomas, Elisa; Fitjar, Rune Dahl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)As part of the third mission of universities to promote innovation and economic development, the popularity of science and technology parks (STPs) as a policy tool is increasing. The co-location of innovative companies and ... -
The geographical dimension of innovation collaboration: Networking and innovation in Norway
Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)This paper looks at the geographical dimension of firm networking in Norway, by examining the impact of manager-level, firm-level and regional-level variables on the decisions of firms to collaborate with partners at ... -
Global Pipelines for Innovation: Insights from the case of Norway
Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Huber, Franz (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06)Using data on 418 Norwegian firms, the results confirm the hypotheses that innovative/radically innovative firms tend to be more involved in international personal and formal networks than non-innovative/incrementally ... -
Hooked up to the international artistic community: external linkages, absorptive capacity and exporting by small creative firms
Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Jøsendal, Kari (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)The contemporary economy is marked both by the growth in international trade and the increasing importance of the creative industries. However, these activities are dominated by big firms and big cities, spurring a large ... -
Incentivizing knowledge exchange engagement: direct and indirect benefits of external engagement
Atta-Owusu, Kwadwo; Fitjar, Rune Dahl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Engagement in knowledge exchange (KE) with external actors has become widely accepted as an integral mission of universities. However, research and teaching performance remain more important for career progression, while ... -
Innovation networks and green restructuring: Which path development can EU Framework Programmes stimulate in Norway?
Calignano, Giuseppe; Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Hjertvikrem, Nina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)With combined insights from evolutionary economic geography and transition studies, the article examines the engagement of different regions in Norway in the innovation networks created within the European Union’s environmental ... -
Innovation, Space, and Diversity
Solheim, Marte Cecilie Wilhelmsen (PhD thesis UiS;327, Doctoral thesis, 2017-01-20)Background This PhD thesis aims at combining different perspectives from the literature on organizational theory, innovation, and economic geography and addresses how firms1 communicate and connect within the contexts ... -
Institutions and Regional Development : A panel data study of EU regions
Muringani, Jonathan (PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2021-03)This PhD thesis contributes to the body of knowledge that uses institutions to explain the differences in economic growth and development across regions. While theoretical (e.g., Rodríguez-Pose, 2013, Rodríguez-Pose, 2020) ... -
Interaction and Innovation across Different Sectors: Findings from Norwegian City-Regions
Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Interaction and innovation across different sectors: findings from Norwegian city-regions, Regional Studies. This article examines how different types of interaction are related to the capacity of firms to innovate in ... -
Knowledge networks and innovation among subsea firms
Hjertvikrem, Nina; Fitjar, Rune Dahl (Chapter, 2018)The chapter discusses the innovation of firms operating in the subsea industry. The subsea industry is a high technology industry making oil extraction possible and safer in deep seas and rough weather conditions. Norway ... -
Networking, context and firm-level innovation: Cooperation through the regional filter in Norway
Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-07)The paper assesses the role for innovation of one aspect which has been generally overlooked by evolutionary economic geography: context. It analyses how context shapes the impact of collaboration on firm-level innovation ... -
Not too close, not too far: testing the Goldilocks principle of ‘optimal’ distance in innovation networks
Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Huber, Franz; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)This paper analyses how the formation of collaboration networks affects firm-level innovation by applying the ‘Goldilocks principle’. The ‘Goldilocks principle’ of optimal distance in innovation networks postulates that ...