This chapter aims to shed light on how the social dimension can influence the processes of asset modification in regional industrial restructuring. Relying on social capital theory and the studies discussing actors and agency in processes of regional industrial restructuring, the chapter suggests an analytical framework that can be useful for...
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This chapter studies regional industrial restructuring and focuses on the role of the ecosystem for restructuring. The chapter examines more precisely how various types of ecosystems hold different preconditions for regional industrial change. The question is how various stages of the restructuring process are affected by the ecosystem. The chapter...
This chapter aims to contribute to the existing literature on entrepreneurial discoveries and regional industrial development in three ways. Firstly, it aims for a better understanding of how different regional contexts affect entrepreneurial discoveries, the entrepreneurial process, and outcomes. Secondly, the chapter links conceptually regional...
This chapter focuses on how innovation policy has coped with the market over history. Using Norway as representative of small European economies, it examines how national innovation policy has changed from 1900. The picture drawn is a non-linear development, moving from an overall modernisation project via a strong planning economic structure...
This chapter looks at the epistemological foundation of social science. It addresses how social science contributes to knowledge development. The traditional approach in positivism presumes that explanations in social science should be similar to those in natural science. Positivists also argue that metaphysics does not belong to science, and that...