Entrepreneurial renewal in a peripheral region: the case of a winter automotive-testing cluster in Sweden

• Main Authors: Andrew Arbuthnott, Yvonne von Friedrichs
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/08985626.2012.748095

This research paper generates new insights into renewal processes that may occur in peripheral regions. Key findings are presented from an explorative study on a regionally clustered automotive-testing industry, located in northern Sweden. The findings suggest that despite theoretically unfavourable conditions it is possible to progress regional industry after a peripheral setting's socio-economic relapses. Moreover, this research shows how, notwithstanding the importance of profitable service offerings, an entrepreneurial environment can be encouraged within a peripheral region and subsequent renewal achieved by advancing local networks , improving internationalization and enhancing local infrastructures related to a service-based regional industry. Consequently this research offers us a glimpse into a pioneering service-based renewal case which, in essence, differs from previously reported entrepreneurship scholarship.