Blar i UiS Business school 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Næringslivets samhandling med universiteter og høgskoler i og utenfor regionen: Funn fra en undersøkelse av norske bedrifter
Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Alpaydin, Utku Ali Riza (Chapter, 2019)The chapter examines collaboration with universities from the perspective of firms, drawing on survey data from 1200 Norwegian firms. Around one in five firms collaborate with a university. The firms provide various motives ... -
One or all channels for knowledge exchange in clusters? Collaboration, monitoring and recruitment networks in the subsea industry in Rogaland, Norway
Hjertvikrem, Nina; Fitjar, Rune Dahl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-05)Existing research has emphasised various mechanisms for knowledge exchange in industry clusters, including inter-firm collaboration, labour mobility, and monitoring of other firms. However, these mechanisms are normally ... -
Promoting academic engagement in regions: How individual and contextual factors shape engagement activities
Atta-Owusu, Kwadwo (PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2021-04)The need to harness knowledge to improve the innovativeness and economic development of regions has brought the regional role of universities to the fore of academic and policy discourses. Being producers and disseminators ... -
Proximity across the distant worlds of university–industry collaborations
Alpaydin, Utku Ali Riza; Fitjar, Rune Dahl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper examines the extent to which firms perceive different dimensions of proximity to be important for the formation of their interactions with universities. Furthermore, it investigates whether the importance of the ... -
Regional transformation; between policy intervention and knowledge dynamics?
Deegan, Jason (PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Regions have emerged as an important spatial scale through which to understand processes of economic development (Lundvall, and Borrás, 1997; Asheim and Isaksen, 2002; Boschma, 2005, 2015; Boschma et al., 2017; Isaksen and ... -
Relatedness and the resource curse: Is there a liability of relatedness?
Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Timmermans, Bram (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Literature in evolutionary economic geography has emphasized knowledge spillover benefits of co-location with related industries. We draw on resource curse literature to demonstrate that relatedness also comes with costs ... -
Samanhengar mellom utanlandskfødd arbeidskraft og innovasjon: er det kjønnsmessige og geografiske skilnader? The relationship between foreign-born workers and innovation: Are there gender and geographical differences?
Solheim, Marte Cecilie Wilhelmsen; Fitjar, Rune Dahl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Tidlegare studiar viser både positive og negative samanhengar mellom utanlandskfødd arbeidskraft og innovasjon. Desse studiane har ikkje teke høgde for kjønn. Derfor undersøker vi samanhengen mellom andelen utanlandskfødde ...