Most empirical research investigating open innovation has focused on the development of new physical products in manufacturing industries, whereas open service innovation has not been researched correspondingly. Services have some characteristics that distinguish them from physical products,...

Introduction -- Local community perspectives on seasonality -- -- Global environmental change -- Conclusion and recommendations -- Preface -- Executive summary -- References -- Employment and workforce issues -- Arctification of northern tourism.

Five Nordic municipal examples -- References -- Methods and validation of results -- Nordic overview -- Preface -- -- Combined analyses of challenges and strategies in use in the Nordics -- Spatial planning for second homes -- Summary.

We investigate the causal effect of the asymmetric criminalization of prostitution on sex tourism. We exploit legal reforms in five countries that switched from systems where prostitution was legal (Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Canada), or where only buying sex was legal (France), to the "Nordic...

This paper investigates whether failure in innovation at the firm level can account for cross-country heterogeneity in manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however, differs in a number of ways from much of the...

Cross-national comparative analysis of generalised social trust in 60 countries shows that it is associated with, and is an integral part of, a tight syndrome of cultural, social, economic, and political variables. High trust countries are characterized by ethnic homogeneity, Protestant...