Sökning: "regional economic growth"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 123 avhandlingar innehållade orden regional economic growth.

  1. 16. Åt var och en efter behov? : En studie av lanthandeln i Revsundsregionen i Östra Jämtland 1870-1890

    Författare :Fredrik Sandgren; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic history; Rural retail trade; industrialisation; Sweden; regional economic development; consumer behaviour; Ekonomisk historia; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation concerns the rural retail trade (lanthandel) in the Revsund area 1870-1890. The area was industrialised from the 1850s by the inland expansion of the forestry and timber industries. The Free Trade Acts in 1864 paved the way for retailers outside the towns to play an important role in supplying the population with goods. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Høyvekstbedrifter og regionale finansieringssystemer

    Författare :Tore Anstein Dobloug; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Regional Financial Systems; Gazelles; High Growth Firms; Risk Capital; Bank Finance; Financing; Regional Development; Centrality;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of the thesis is to increase understanding of the impact of financial institutions on regional growth. It helps to develop established concepts and perceptions on the impact of financial institutions on economic development in less well-functioning regions. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Norrlands ekonomi i stöpsleven : ekonomisk expansion, stapelvaruproduktion och maritima näringar 1760-1812

    Författare :Maurits Nyström; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; economic history; Northern Sweden; eighteenth and nineteenth century; forest-based staple production; trade; shipping; merchant fleet; shipbuilding; proto-industrialization; economic expansion; conflicts of interests;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates whether northern Sweden's forest-based staple production and maritime activities were increased and altered in any significant ways prior to the expansion which began just before the middle of the nineteenth century. Furthermore, it studies whether certain changes contributed to thecreation of preconditions for the named expansion. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Knowledge Bases and the Geography of Innovation

    Författare :Roman Martin; CIRCLE; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; economic geography; regional innovation systems; learning regions; differentiated knowledge bases; knowledge networks; social network analysis; Scania; Sweden;

    Sammanfattning : Despite the ongoing globalisation of economic activities, innovation does not take place randomly distributed over space, but concentrates in certain locations. A central argument to explain the spatial concentration of innovation activities lies in the ability of geographical proximity to facilitate interactive learning and knowledge exchange, which in turn is seen as an important driver for regional growth and prosperity. LÄS MER

  7. 20. The Geography of Entrepreneurship : regional and individual determinants of new firm formation in Sweden

    Författare :Marcin Rataj; Rikard Eriksson; Urban Lindgren; Lars Fredrik Andersson; Raquel Ortega-Argilés; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; entrepreneurship; start-up; regional development; urbanization; peripheries;

    Sammanfattning : While there is a rich and growing body of literature on both individual and regional determinants of entrepreneurship, the dominant perspective assumes that these factor play a similar role in different spatial contexts. The thesis investigates in the first place the link between firm formation and economic opportunities that might be conditional on the regional setting. LÄS MER