Australia and Norway have achieved modern levels of development as resource-based economies, thus avoiding the so-called resource curse. Their ability to achieve this rested heavily upon diversification into new resource products and industries. These processes relied heavily on innovation,...

Australia and Norway have achieved modern levels of development as resource-based economies, thus avoiding the so-called resource curse. Their ability to achieve this rested heavily on repeated diversification into new resource products and industries. These processes relied largely on...

I tillegg til å skille mellom industrialiserte og ikke-industrialiserte regioner av europeiske samfunn, kan vi også se at det har vært ulike former for industrialisering mellom ulike regioner. Det er flere måter å definere variasjoner i industrialiseringen på. I denne fremstillingen skal...

This paper provides a structured outline of innovation and industrial policies in a small and highly industrialised economy during the post-war period. Analysing the changing priorities of these policies in an open economy like Norway provides a contrasting perspective to the literature on the...

Teknologipolitikk skal bidra til å forme den samfunnsøkonomiske utviklingen ved å skape f.eks. økonomisk vekst, økt sysselsetting, økt eksporverdi osv. I en markedsøkonomi betyr dette å få aktørene i det økonomiske liv (bedriftene) til å handle på en slik måte at summen av...

Social innovation is once more an increasingly popular notion circulating as an apparent means to solve the Grand Challenges of the 21st Century. But this common-sense idea of social innovation is based on a quasi-concept, where processes of innovation are absent. To restore some academic rigour...

There is no shortage of syntheses or overviews on specific topics within innovation studies. Much more rare are attempts to synthesize on the syntheses, i.e., cover the entire area of innovation studies, emphasize the achievements that have been made, discuss the implications for policy and...

Constant market shares (CMS) analyses are frequently used in applied studies of export development. This paper reviews the development of the method and argues that it can be considerably improved. A new version of the method is developed which, in addition to the familiar CMS effects, also...