2‘NORTHERN LIGHT ’ OR ‘OUT IN THE COLD ’ – A COMPARISON OF TWO NORDIC REGIONS
The development of regions has attracted substantial interest during the recent decades, involving several studies of ‘industrial districts’, ‘developing regions’, ‘hi-tech regions’ and ‘entrepreneurial districts’. Different propositions regarding how the development of dynamic regions can be unders...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.582.7476 2023-05-15T17:09:06+02:00 2‘NORTHERN LIGHT ’ OR ‘OUT IN THE COLD ’ – A COMPARISON OF TWO NORDIC REGIONS Håkan Ylinenpää Nils-gustav Lundgren The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.582.7476 http://www.ies.luth.se/org/rapporter/ar9828.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.582.7476 http://www.ies.luth.se/org/rapporter/ar9828.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.ies.luth.se/org/rapporter/ar9828.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-08-28T00:03:31Z The development of regions has attracted substantial interest during the recent decades, involving several studies of ‘industrial districts’, ‘developing regions’, ‘hi-tech regions’ and ‘entrepreneurial districts’. Different propositions regarding how the development of dynamic regions can be understood has thus, with different theoretical approaches, been put forward. This article aims to increase our knowledge about how the factors behind the development of regions can be understood. The point of departure is Porter’s ‘Diamond Model’, which is applied as a theoretical framework for an analysis of two Nordic regions: The Oulu region (the city Oulu and the county of Pohjois Pohjanmaa) in northern Finland and the Luleå region (the city of Luleå and the county of Norrbotten) in northern Sweden. By utilising different data sources, interviews with key actors in the two regions as well as statistical data and previous studies, the study identifies four main factors behind the notably more favourable development of the Oulu region. These factors relate to the two cities ’ different positions in their national hierarchy of cities, different modes of co-operation between local and regional key actors, different roles as demanding customers played by the dominant companies in the regions, and structural differences regarding the role of emerging versus mature industries. Also factors with minor and often indirect importance for explaining occurring differences are identified in the article. Text Luleå Luleå Luleå Northern Finland Northern Sweden Norrbotten Unknown |
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The development of regions has attracted substantial interest during the recent decades, involving several studies of ‘industrial districts’, ‘developing regions’, ‘hi-tech regions’ and ‘entrepreneurial districts’. Different propositions regarding how the development of dynamic regions can be understood has thus, with different theoretical approaches, been put forward. This article aims to increase our knowledge about how the factors behind the development of regions can be understood. The point of departure is Porter’s ‘Diamond Model’, which is applied as a theoretical framework for an analysis of two Nordic regions: The Oulu region (the city Oulu and the county of Pohjois Pohjanmaa) in northern Finland and the Luleå region (the city of Luleå and the county of Norrbotten) in northern Sweden. By utilising different data sources, interviews with key actors in the two regions as well as statistical data and previous studies, the study identifies four main factors behind the notably more favourable development of the Oulu region. These factors relate to the two cities ’ different positions in their national hierarchy of cities, different modes of co-operation between local and regional key actors, different roles as demanding customers played by the dominant companies in the regions, and structural differences regarding the role of emerging versus mature industries. Also factors with minor and often indirect importance for explaining occurring differences are identified in the article. |
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