Urban and Regional High Technologies: The Case of Oulu

This paper investigates the reasons behind what has been termed the ‘Oulu Phenomenon‘ in Northern Finland. Over the past two to three decades the city of Oulu has transformed its economy from dependency on timber, paper and pulp industries into one based on High Technology, notably, telecommunic...

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Main Authors: Tom Donnelly, Martti Hyry
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Northern Finland
Online Access:http://lec.sagepub.com/content/19/2/134.abstract
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spelling ftrepec:oai:RePEc:sae:loceco:v:19:y:2004:i:2:p:134-149 2023-05-15T17:42:18+02:00 Urban and Regional High Technologies: The Case of Oulu Tom Donnelly Martti Hyry http://lec.sagepub.com/content/19/2/134.abstract unknown http://lec.sagepub.com/content/19/2/134.abstract article ftrepec 2020-12-04T13:36:56Z This paper investigates the reasons behind what has been termed the ‘Oulu Phenomenon‘ in Northern Finland. Over the past two to three decades the city of Oulu has transformed its economy from dependency on timber, paper and pulp industries into one based on High Technology, notably, telecommunications, biotechnology, electronics, multimedia and environmental technologies. In particular the paper will explore the role played by the national government via regional policy, higher education and the subsequent interaction between these, the local authorities and entrepreneurs High technology; regional polic; higher education; path dependency; anchor firms; networking Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Finland RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
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description This paper investigates the reasons behind what has been termed the ‘Oulu Phenomenon‘ in Northern Finland. Over the past two to three decades the city of Oulu has transformed its economy from dependency on timber, paper and pulp industries into one based on High Technology, notably, telecommunications, biotechnology, electronics, multimedia and environmental technologies. In particular the paper will explore the role played by the national government via regional policy, higher education and the subsequent interaction between these, the local authorities and entrepreneurs High technology; regional polic; higher education; path dependency; anchor firms; networking
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