Foreign direct investment and renewal of industries: framing the reciprocity between materiality and discourse

Fløysand, Arnt; Njøs, Rune; Nilsen, Trond; Nygaard, Vigdis

doi:10.1080/09654313.2016.1226785

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“…Micro-mesomacro 3 Fløysand, Njøs, Nilsen and Nygaard (2016) Foreign direct investment and renewal of industries: framing the reciprocity between materiality and discourse Industries Micro-mesomacro 4 Cluster policy and regional development: scale, scope, and renewal Clusters Meso-macro 5 Njøs, Jakobsen, Aslesen and Fløysand (2016) Encounters between cluster theory, policy and practice in Norway: Hubbing, blending, and conceptual stretching Clusters Meso-macro 6 Njøs and Jakobsen (2017) Policy for evolution of regional innovation systems: The role of social capital and regional particularities…”

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“…Hence, we base our approach on an understanding of MNC activity as a practice of networking and transfer of knowledge (Fløysand, Njøs, Nilsen, & Nygaard, 2016;Nilsen, 2016Nilsen, , 2017. Consequently, in developing our approach, we argue that there is a need to incorporate relational understandings (e.g., in conceptualizations of cluster renewal.…”

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Policy for Evolution of Regional Innovation Systems: The Role of Social Capital and Regional Particularities

Njøs

Jakobsen

2017

Science and Public Policy

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This work owes gratitude to many people. First and foremost, my supervisors Arnt Fløysand and Stig-Erik Jakobsen, who first encouraged the project, and then helped me see it through. Not only did they contribute valuable insight into the academic world as co-authors on several of my publications, they were incredibly supportive and constructive even when I did my best to argue against my own work. I also thank them for the many social events and discussions over the years, many of which took place during our travels together. They have contributed far more than might have been expected, for which I am very grateful.

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Policy for Evolution of Regional Innovation Systems: The Role of Social Capital and Regional Particularities

Njøs

Jakobsen

2017

Science and Public Policy

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“…Based on the GPN framework, the article shows how firm and extra-firm actors shape their assets to develop the FWP network. We identify the network actors and their network development practices, as well as the strategies and associated discourses through which host states strive to maximize the national and regional benefits of foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in emerging renewable energy sectors (Fløysand et al 2016). We argue that the distinct materiality of FWP technology shapes the territorial configuration of the production network by enabling its spatial extension across a range of locations.…”

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Configuring floating production networks: A case study of a new offshore wind technology across two oil and gas economies

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Karlsen

MacKinnon

2018

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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The authors employ global production network (GPN) approach to analyse the development of the renewable energy sector. Through a case study of the development of a Hywind floating offshore wind project (Hywind) across two oil and gas economies, namely Norway and Scotland, the paper sheds light on the key drivers and role of core GPN actors. Methodologically, the authors investigate the process from both 'inside-out' and 'outside-in' perspectives, referring to the efforts of firms expanding into overseas markets and the efforts of host countries to attract investment from outside their territories. The analysis shows how the configuration of extractive production networks is shaped by the interactions between the network development practices of firms and the market development strategies of host states. The authors conclude that the distinct materiality of floating wind power technology shapes the territorial configuration of the 2 production network by enabling its spatial extension across a range of locations. By contrast, existing research on other extractive sectors has emphasized the spatially constraining effects of materiality (Bridge 2008).

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“…Case studies of rural manufacturing (Virkalla, 2007), electro industry (Jakobsen et al, 2005), and ICT and software industries (Isaksen and Trippl, 2016) have documented how new trajectories have been opened by the introduction of new industries. The work on FDIs and regional renewal from Fløysand et al (2016) demonstrate that foreign investments create new paths in regions, but that the evolvement of these paths depends on the industry-region coupling and the support from institutional structures at the national level. While the literature on FDI has proved important insights into the field of MNCs and ''outside-in'' transplantation, the current model of path-dependent regional industrial development needs to be explored further in providing a theoretical framework for approaching new paths in rural and noncore areas.…”

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Firm-driven path creation in arctic peripheries

Nilsen

2017

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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In this paper, the author argues that path creation in regions could be connected to extra-regional firms, networks, and knowledge . However, since the 1990s, the field of evolutionary economic geography has emphasized the importance of endogenous factors in explaining mechanisms of growth and decline. In the debate on path development, there has been strong trust in internal regional processes, where regional innovation systems, related variety, and regional branching have been important sources of new growth patterns. Consequently, the anchoring of multinational corporations in regions as new sources of regional growth and firms’ strategic behavior has received less attention in the evolutionary economic geography discourse. There is less understanding of path creation as “outside-in” transplantation and of the role of extra-regional sources of knowledge and new path development. Accordingly, as peripheral regions often lack notions of relatedness within economic sectors, they depend on exogenous sources of new path development. By applying a set of quantitative and qualitative data from the buildup of a new offshore cluster in the petroleum sector off the coast of Finnmark in Northern Norway, the author suggests that firm behavior within a multiscalar network of actors plays a dominant strategic role in the development of new paths in the periphery. He argues that exogenous development impulses in the form of a combination of multinational corporations, state policies of local content, and the inflow of new knowledge through the inward transplantation of firms from outside can initiate new industrial paths. Thus, the author raises fundamental questions about the applicability of models of endogenous path creation in peripheral regions and suggests a new analytical framework for understanding how the entry of strategic firms connects with different regional paths.

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Foreign direct investment and renewal of industries: framing the reciprocity between materiality and discourse

Cited by 17 publications

References 38 publications

Policy for Evolution of Regional Innovation Systems: The Role of Social Capital and Regional Particularities

Policy for Evolution of Regional Innovation Systems: The Role of Social Capital and Regional Particularities

Configuring floating production networks: A case study of a new offshore wind technology across two oil and gas economies

Firm-driven path creation in arctic peripheries

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