Utku Ali Rıza Alpaydın, Rune Dahl Fitjar,
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Tópico(s): Intellectual Capital and Performance Analysis
2020 - Elsevier BV | Papers of the Regional Science Association
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Emerson Gomes dos Santos, Renato García, Veneziano Araújo, Suelene Mascarini, Ariana Ribeiro Costa,
... agents, with positive effects on innovation (Brekke, 2020; Fitjar & Gjelsvik, 2018). However, these studies used formal channels ... Capello & Caragliu, 2018) and of university-industry engagement (Fitjar & Gjelsvik, 2018; Garcia et al., 2018; Laursen et ... contact, which is helpful in transferring tacit knowledge (Fitjar & Gjelsvik, 2018; Garcia et al., 2015). The costs ...
Tópico(s): Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
2020 - Elsevier BV | Regional Science Policy & Practice
Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose, Rune Dahl Fitjar,
... information on the survey can be found in Fitjar and Rodríguez-Pose (Citation2011).
Tópico(s): Regional resilience and development
2012 - Taylor & Francis | European Planning Studies
... acknowledged to enhance innovativeness of regions and firms (Fitjar & Rodríguez-Pose, 2013). Although, De Noni, Ganzaroli, and ... to strengthen the innovativeness of firms and regions (Fitjar & Rodríguez-Pose, 2013). Inventive actors not only engage ...
Tópico(s): Innovation and Knowledge Management
2020 - Elsevier BV | Papers of the Regional Science Association
Sándor Juhász, Tom Broekel, Ron Boschma,
... and benchmarking dimension (Balland, Boschma, Crespo, & Rigby, 2019; Fitjar, Benneworth, & Asheim, 2019). However, few studies have analysed ... current regional innovation policies (Balland et al., 2019; Fitjar et al., 2019). Finally, while the paper provides ...
Tópico(s): Regional resilience and development
2020 - Elsevier BV | Papers of the Regional Science Association
Harald Bathelt, Michael Storper,
... same.9 As a starting point, however, see Fitjar and Timmermans (Citation2017).10 Castaldi, Frenken, and Los ( ... of relatedness and complexity variables (Deegan, Broekel, and Fitjar Citation2021), since these are even more difficult to ...
Tópico(s): Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
2023 - Taylor & Francis | Economic Geography
... doi.org/10.1080/03031853.2015.1085228Rune Dahl Fitjar, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose Networking, context and firm-level ...
Tópico(s): Innovation Policy and R&D
1958 - University of Chicago Press | Journal of Political Economy
... https://doi.org/10.35674/kent.961865Rune Dahl Fitjar Unrequited metropolitan mergers: suburban rejection of cities in ...
Tópico(s): Local Government Finance and Decentralization
1966 - University of Chicago Press | Journal of Political Economy
Abstract. While national identities emerged as the dominant source of territorial identification during the twentieth century, sub‐state regional identities are becoming increasingly important in some Western European regions. However, this is not a uniform development. In some regions, nearly half of respondents in Eurobarometer surveys claim a stronger attachment to the region than to the state. In others, less than 4 per cent are primarily attached to their region. This article examines the extent ...
Tópico(s): Electoral Systems and Political Participation
2009 - Wiley | European Journal of Political Research
... Østerdal who guided me through the landscape in Fitjar in Hordaland. Thanks to Christian Keller, Inge Lindblom ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
2009 - Routledge | Norwegian Archaeological Review
Rune Dahl Fitjar, Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose,
How do peripheral and relatively isolated regions innovate? Recent research has tended to stress the importance of agglomeration economies and geographical proximity as key motors of innovation. According to this research, large core areas have significant advantages with respect to peripheral areas in innovation potential. Yet, despite these trends, some remote areas of the periphery are remarkably innovative even in the absence of critical innovation masses. In this paper, we examine one such ...
Tópico(s): Cultural Industries and Urban Development
2011 - Taylor & Francis | European Planning Studies
Rune Dahl Fitjar, Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose,
The geographical sources of innovation of firms have been hotly debated. While the traditional view is that physical proximity within city-regions is key for the innovative capacity of firms, the literature on ‘global pipelines’ has been stressing the importance of establishing communication channels to the outside world. This paper uses a specifically tailored survey of the level of innovation of 1604 firms of more than ten employees located in the five largest Norwegian city-regions (Oslo, Bergen, ...
Tópico(s): Regional resilience and development
2011 - SAGE Publishing | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
This article examines the drivers and barriers for corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the Norwegian graduate uniform industry, which is a market devoid of large corporations, consisting entirely of two small businesses. It finds that these small businesses' CSR activities are not particularly well explained by the existing literature on CSR in small- and medium-sized enterprises, which assumes the presence of large competitors. This raises the question of whether small businesses that do not ...
Tópico(s): Environmental Sustainability in Business
2011 - Wiley | Business Ethics A European Review
By Rune Dahl Fitjar Routledge, London, 2010, 208 pp., £80, ISBN 9780415494755 (hbk) What are the causes of regionalism? Why is regionalism stronger ...
Tópico(s): European Union Policy and Governance
2011 - Taylor & Francis | West European Politics
Rune Dahl Fitjar, Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose,
This paper examines the sources of firm product and process innovation in Norway. It uses a purpose-built survey of 1604 firms in the five largest Norwegian city-regions to test, by means of a logit regression analysis, Jensen et al.’s (2007) contention that firm innovation is both the result of ‘Science, Technology and Innovation’ (STI) and ‘Doing, Using and Interacting’ (DUI) modes of firm learning. The paper classifies different types of firm interaction into STI-mode interaction (with consultants, ...
Tópico(s): Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
2012 - Elsevier BV | Research Policy
Rune Dahl Fitjar, Franz Huber,
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 innovative ones. While regional and national networks are much more widespread than international ones, they are not significantly positively associated with innovation. International personal networks and international links with suppliers and customers and with universities and research ...
Tópico(s): University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
2014 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Economic Geography
Rune Dahl Fitjar, Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose,
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 different levels of geographical distance. Using data stemming from a survey of 1604 businesses in five Norwegian city-regions, we model firms’ use of partners located within the region, elsewhere in the country and abroad, respectively. The results indicate that collaboration is affected ...
Tópico(s): Regional resilience and development
2013 - SAGE Publishing | Urban Studies
Rune Dahl Fitjar, Martin Gjelsvik, Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose,
Abstract In this paper, a survey of more than 1600 firms in the five largest city regions of Norway is described in order to examine how a firm's innovative capacity is affected by three types of factors: factors related to the manager, the structure of the firm and the broader geographical location. By combining perspectives from the fields of management and economic geography in a logistic regression analysis, we find that the two key drivers of firm-level innovation in Norway are the presence ...
Tópico(s): Business Strategy and Innovation
2013 - Taylor & Francis | Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
Rune Dahl Fitjar, Martin Gjelsvik, Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose,
Tópico(s): Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
2013 - Universitetsforlaget | Beta
... collaboration AcknowledgementsI am grateful to Professor Rune Dahl Fitjar and the anonymous reviewers for comments on improving ...
Tópico(s): Public Administration, ICT, and Policy Development
2015 - Taylor & Francis | Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography
Rune Dahl Fitjar, Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose,
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 for 1604 firms located in the five largest city regions of Norway. Specifically, the analysis shows how the benefits to firms of collaborating within regional, national, and international innovation networks are affected by the knowledge endowments of the region within which the ...
Tópico(s): Regional Development and Policy
2015 - Elsevier BV | Geoforum
Ingvild Kristine Mehl, Anette Overland, Jan Erik Berge, Kari Loe Hjelle,
... coast), and three small lakes, Herøyvatn (outer coast), Fitjar (inner coast) and Herandsvatn (inner fjord) in Hordaland ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2015 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Archaeological Science
Olivier Bouba-Olga, Christophe Carrincazeaux, Marie Coris, Marie Ferru,
... Moodysson and Jonsson, 2007; Knoben and Oerlemans, 2006; Fitjar ...
Tópico(s): Innovation and Knowledge Management
2015 - Routledge | Regional Studies
Rune Dahl Fitjar, Franz Huber, Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose,
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 the best firm-level innovation results are achieved when the partners involved in the network are located at the 'right' distance, i.e. 'not too close and not too far' from one another, across non-geographical proximity dimensions. This principle is tested on a survey of 542 Norwegian ...
Tópico(s): Business Strategy and Innovation
2016 - Taylor & Francis | Industry and Innovation
Rune Dahl Fitjar, Bram Timmermans,
This paper proposes a novel index of regional skill-relatedness and calculates this measure for all Norwegian labour-market regions. Studies of regional related diversification rely on measures of related variety, which build on the industry classification hierarchy. However, the growing literature identifying similarities in knowledge and competences across industries demonstrates that these classifications fail to identify a great deal of actual skill relatedness, and that measures based on empirical ...
Tópico(s): Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
2016 - Taylor & Francis | European Planning Studies
Marte C.W. Solheim, Rune Dahl Fitjar,
While there is a wealth of empirical research examining the potential relations and effects of foreign workers, immigration and cultural diversity on wages, employment, economic growth, and—in recent years—innovation, very little of this research has provided a convincing empirical demonstration of the mechanisms through which foreign workers would affect innovation. Most accounts hypothesize that foreign workers provide a different perspective that contributes to a diversity of ideas in the firm, ...
Tópico(s): Firm Innovation and Growth
2016 - SAGE Publishing | International Regional Science Review
Rune Dahl Fitjar, Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose,
Abstract It has often been argued that “there is something in the air” which makes firms in high‐density environments—such as cities or clusters—more innovative. The co‐location of firms facilitates the emergence of serendipity and casual encounters which promote innovation in firms. We assess this hypothesis using data from a survey of Norwegian firms engaged in innovation partnerships. The results indicate that there may be “much less in the air” than is generally assumed in the literature. The ...
Tópico(s): Cultural Industries and Urban Development
2016 - Wiley | Growth and Change
Rune Dahl Fitjar, Martin Gjelsvik,
This paper examines why firms sometimes collaborate locally rather than with higher-quality universities at a distance. Existing research has mostly relied on the localized knowledge spillover (LKS) model to explain this. This model holds that knowledge transfer across distance is costly, and collaborating locally reduces the risk of information loss when the knowledge is transferred. However, there are various other reasons that could also explain the pattern. If the local university can make a ...
Tópico(s): Intellectual Capital and Performance Analysis
2018 - Routledge | Regional Studies
Jarle Aarstad, Olav Andreas Kvitastein, Stig‐Erik Jakobsen,
... in some regions. Studying economic regions in Norway, Fitjar and Timmermans (2017, p. 516) assert that using ...
Tópico(s): Regional Development and Policy
2018 - Elsevier BV | Papers of the Regional Science Association
Giuseppe Calignano, Rune Dahl Fitjar, Dieter F. Kogler,
Cluster policy is often ineffective in peripheral regions with weak institutions and significant barriers to knowledge production and exchange. Nonetheless, many peripheral regions have pursued such policies in recent years, an example being technology districts in southern Italy. This paper examines one such district – the aerospace district in Apulia – where policy has focused on indirect support for networking through coordination. This has led to a substantial increase in knowledge exchange within ...
Tópico(s): Polish socio-economic development
2018 - Routledge | Regional Studies