Blar i Mohnsenteret for innovasjon og regional utvikling på forfatter "Jakobsen, Stig Erik"
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Agency–context interaction in industrial path development – a multidimensional approach
Bækkelund, Nora Geirsdotter (Doctoral thesis, 2022)This dissertation investigates agency in industry path development, and how it interacts with context. A multidimensional approach to agency–context interaction is developed and used to understand both the ability of people ... -
Business incubator management and entrepreneur collaboration with R&D milieus: Does the regional context matter?
Aarstad, Jarle; Jakobsen, Stig Erik; Foss, Lene (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We study whether business incubator management collaboration with R&D milieus affects incubated entrepreneurs to also collaborate with R&D milieus in different regional contexts. Empirically, we analyse 281 Norwegian ... -
Expanding analyses of path creation: Interconnections between territory and technology
Njøs, Rune; Sjøtun, Svein Gunnar; Jakobsen, Stig Erik; Fløysand, Arnt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Theoretically and conceptually, evolutionary economic geography has paid little attention to technological characteristics when explaining the emergence of new industries. Building on the literature on technological ... -
Has Firms' Emphasis on Environmental and Social Sustainability Impacted How They Have Been Affected by and Responded to COVID-19?
Aarstad, Jarle; Jakobsen, Stig Erik; Fløysand, Arnt (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper's major focus is to study if firms' emphasis on environmental and social sustainability has impacted how they have been affected by and responded to COVID-19. A survey of Norwegian firms across industries shows ... -
How Norwegian aquaculture firms across the value chain were affected by and responded to COVID-19
Aarstad, Jarle; Jakobsen, Stig Erik; Fløysand, Arnt; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Previous research has shown that Norwegian aquaculture did not report being much affected by COVID-19 but had a strong response to the pandemic regarding cost reductions, market development, and business network development. ... -
Institutional work, regional key actors, and green industrial restructuring
Fløysand, Arnt; Sjøtun, Svein Gunnar; Jakobsen, Stig Erik; Njøs, Rune; Tvedt, Helge Lea; Gjelsvik, Martin; Aarstad, Jarle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Departing from evolutionary economic geography, the objective of the article is to reveal the dynamics of institutional work by regional key actors with a need to achieve green restructuring in regions dependent on the oil ... -
Norwegian Aquaculture Firms’ Emphasis on Environmental and Social Sustainability Compared to Firms in Other Industries
Aarstad, Jarle; Jakobsen, Stig Erik; Fløysand, Arnt (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background: There has been a strong focus on environmental sustainability in the aquaculture industry, but we do not know how firms in this industry emphasize the issue compared to firms in other industries. Methods: ... -
Norwegian Firms’ Green and New Industry Strategies: A Dual Challenge
Aarstad, Jarle; Jakobsen, Stig Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Today, there is strong pressure for firms, in Norway and abroad, to adopt green or sustainable strategies. Furthermore, many Norwegian firms, directly or indirectly dependent on the dominating but declining petroleum sector, ... -
Place-Based Directionality of Innovation: Tasmanian Salmon Farming and Responsible Innovation
Fløysand, Arnt; Lindfors, Emil Tomson; Jakobsen, Stig Erik; Coenen, Lars Martel Antoine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The aim of this paper has been to explore, in depth, the place-based conditions enabling and constraining the directionality of responsible innovation in the Tasmanian salmon farming industry, and to discuss how this case ... -
Policy action for green restructuring in specialized industrial regions
Jakobsen, Stig Erik; Uyarra, Elvira; Njøs, Rune; Fløysand, Arnt (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Combining insights from evolutionary economic geography and socio-technical transition studies, this article provides a conceptual framework and a theory-informed empirical analysis of policy dimensions for regional green ... -
R&D investments and employment decisions as a function of enterprise size and regional population density before and during COVID-19
Aarstad, Jarle; Jakobsen, Stig Erik; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Norwegian data show that from 2018 to 2020, enterprises in densely populated regions increased R&D investments relative to those in sparsely populated regions, but not from 2016 to 2018. Therefore, COVID-19 likely induced ... -
Situating knowledge combinations beyond the factory gate: Examples from two innovation projects in rural Norway
Bækkelund, Nora Geirsdotter; Njøs, Rune; Jakobsen, Stig Erik (Journal article, 2024)Evolutionary economic geography considers knowledge combinations as key for explaining innovation and regional industrial development. Building on the thesis that knowledge is beneficially combined across adjacent industries, ... -
Sustainable regional industry development through co-evolution - the case of salmon farming and cell-based seafood production
Lindfors, Emil Tomson; Jakobsen, Stig Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Norway is the largest producers of aquaculture salmon in the world, and the Bergen region is the centre of Norwegian salmon production. In this article we explore the opportunities and obstacles in introducing cell-based ...