Why Arctic policies matter: The role of exogenous actions in oil and gas industry development in the Norwegian High North

Nilsen, Trond

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2016.03.010

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“…This conflicts with the strong emphasis on endogenous sources of new path creation within the EEG literature. Accordingly, the findings in this paper endorse recent work that suggests more attention should be devoted to understanding how the transplantation of firms, industries, and other resources can serve as a mechanism for new path development (Isaksen and Trippl, 2016;Martin and Sunley, 2006;Nilsen, 2016).…”

Section: Exogenous Sources Of New Path Development Contest Endogenoussupporting

confidence: 82%

“…New paths are transplanted into the region when either new firms or policies are introduced or both. It has been argued that the focus on endogenous capacities within regions has led to a limitation in understandings of extra-regional sources of new path development within EEG (Isaksen and Trippl, 2016;Nilsen, 2016). As argued by Binz et al (2016), the development of new industrial paths with new path creation from outside the region represents a wider geographical approach from the territorially bound and localized approach to new path creation.…”

Section: Key Mechanisms Of Path Creation and Anchoring Of Extra-regiomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To increase the amount of local input, Eni Norge required the presence of local companies operating with seven or eight main contracts. In accordance with the Norwegian Government's policy requirement, the MNC had to meet several specific requirements in their operations (Nilsen, 2016). The requirements involved hiring local people, investing in local offices, and building up capacity and infrastructure to serve the oil companies' future needs.…”

Section: Mnc-driven Path Transplantationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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Section: Exogenous Sources Of New Path Development Contest Endogenoussupporting

confidence: 82%

Section: Key Mechanisms Of Path Creation and Anchoring Of Extra-regiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mnc-driven Path Transplantationmentioning

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Firm-driven path creation in arctic peripheries

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2017

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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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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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%