Sökning: "evolutionary economic geography"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden evolutionary economic geography.
1. On inter-industry relatedness and regional economic development
Sammanfattning : The dissertation aims to advance our understanding about the role of local industry structure in regional economic development. More specifically, it investigates how relatedness between local industries (i.e. similarities in what kind of knowledge industries use) contributes to and constrains regional economic development. LÄS MER
2. Creative Distraction : The Digital Transformation of the Advertising Industry
Sammanfattning : This thesis is primarily based on a case study on how the Internet affects the advertising industry in Oslo, Norway, and on how the digitization of advertising adds to our understanding of the geography of innovation and urban and regional development. The study argues that the Internet fundamentally changes and challenges the advertising industry, and that advertising merges into market communication and even user experience and product development. LÄS MER
3. Arctic geographies in the making : understanding political economy, institutional strategic selectivity, and agency in tourism pathway development
Sammanfattning : Tourism has long been promoted as a catalyst for socio-economic development in sparsely populated areas based on the commodification of culture and natural environments. This thesis examines the case of Arctic tourism in the two neighbouring northern counties of Finnish Lapland and Norrbotten (Sweden). LÄS MER
4. Industrial Transformation in Sweden 1978-2002 : Suggestions for an Evolutionary Approach to Regional Economic Change
Sammanfattning : Schumpeter, Dahmén, Schön, Freeman, and other evolutionary scholars have shown that economic transformation and technological change are necessary prerequisites for long-term economic growth. However, for the Swedish case the exact sectoral and regional anatomy of the technology shift taking place since 1978 has not yet been disentangled. LÄS MER
5. Industrial Dynamics and Regional Structural Change : Geographical Perspectives on Economic Evolution
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the process of economic transformation taking place in Sweden since the mid 1970s. Especially, it is concerned with how and why benefits that firms and industries draw from regional co-location with other actors (agglomeration externalities) vary over stages of economic transformation. LÄS MER