Forskere: Marianne Karlsson, Grete Kaare Hovelsrud
Forskere: Evgueni Vinogradov, Birgit Leick, Bjørnar Karlsen Kivedal, Mehtap Eklund
A successful innovation in industrial development policy.
The report evaluates Nordland County Council's innovation strategy (2014-2020), the first regional strategy for industrial development in Norway following the EU scheme for smart specialisation. The strategy differs from earlier industry development by focusing innovation as the prominent driver of growth, using place-based strengths, targeting a more diversified industrial structure, increasing companies' research interactions, and cooperating broadly in order to discover, facilitate, and release innovation initiatives with great potential for growth. The most important measures have been to develop, diffuse, and anchor a new body of thought among policy and public support actors, to co-ordinate instruments towards the strategy, to improve relations between the county council and trade and industry, to increase the region's capacity for relevant research and education offerings (modern localisation conditions for companies), to use innovation system hubs to drive company collaboration in innovation and relevant research, and to direct cluster projects towards the latter. The strategy work has i.a. resulted in strengthening a sustainable experience economy in tourism and increasing company-initiated R&D in industry, and exciting side effects like a broad initiative towards algaculture and advanced plans for a giga-factory for electrical car batteries in Helgeland. The organisation of further work should adapt to new constraints following the recent regional reform.
Forskere: Håkon Finne, Åge Mariussen, Jarle Løvland
Forskere: Suyash Jolly, Teis Hansen
Forskere: Julia Olsen, Marina Nenasheva, Grete Kaare Hovelsrud, Gjermund Wollan
Forskere: Indra Øverland, Anatoli Bourmistrov, Brigt Dale, Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox, Javlon Juraev, Eduard Podgaiskii, Florian Stammler, Stella Tsani, Roman Vakulchuk, Emma C. Wilson
Forskere: Dag Leonardsen, Therese Marie Andrews
Forskere: Arild Gjertsen, Ingrid Agathe Bay-Larsen, Hilde Bjørkhaug, Bjørn Vidar Vangelsten
Forskere: Evgueni Vinogradov, Abbas Strømmen-Bakhtiar, Marit Kristin Kvarum,, Kristian Rydland Antonsen
Forskere: Evgueni Vinogradov, Bjørnar Karlsen Kivedal, Birgit Leick
Forskere: Amsale Kassahun Temesgen
Forskere: Håkan Torleif Sandersen, Julia Olsen, Grete Kaare Hovelsrud, Arild Gjertsen
Forskere: Brigt Dale, Sarah W Cooley, Johnatan C. Rayn, Laurence C. Smith, Chris Horvat, Brodie Pearson, Amanda H. Lynch
Forskere: Kjersti Granås Bardal
Forskere: Halvor Dannevig, Grete Kaare Hovelsrud, Erlend Andre T. Hermansen, Marianne Karlsson
Forskere: Pablo Romero-Nieva Santos, Nikolai George Lewis Holm, Julia Olsen, Grete Kaare Hovelsrud
Forskere: Auvikki de BOON, Camilla Sandström, Ugo Arbieu, Inger Hansen, Lisa Lehnen, Agnese Marino, Mari Pohja-Mykrä, Camilla Risvoll, Geir-Harald Strand, Katrina Rønningen
Forskere: Are Jensen, Nhien Nguyen, Jens Ørding Hansen
Ensuring sustainable carnivore populations while simultaneously sustaining active and viable pastoral communities often creates conflicts that are difficult to resolve. This article examines how different knowledge systems meet and interact in large carnivore governance in Norway and Sweden. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including observations in meetings, public documents, reports and interviews, in addition to local and national newspaper clippings and internet sites, we study two processes of regional carnivore management (Nordland, Norway and Jämtland, Sweden). We explore how different forms of knowledge have been mobilized, reproduced, transferred and legitimized in policies and regulations in these two processes. Furthermore, we examine the interplay between scientific and experience-based knowledge at different levels and scales in both countries. In Norway, “clear zoning” has been established as a basic management instrument to achieve national “population goals” for carnivores. We show how the locally situated knowledge – in our account represented through the Regional Large Carnivore Committee (RLCC), which includes political parties’ and Sami Parliament representatives – experiences real barriers by being overruled by the national Ministry of Climate and Environment, 2016 in their process of revising the carnivore management plan (CMP). In Sweden where the management of large carnivores is devolved to regional authorities and stakeholder-based Wildlife Management Delegations (WMDs), attempts to regionally solve conflicts are often overthrown by the national environmental protection agency or through court cases initiated by the environmental movement. Hence, compromises that potentially could solve conflicts are undermined. The analysis shows that while carnivore governance in both countries are founded on decentralized management authority at the regional level, local actors struggle for their views, experiences and knowledge to be acknowledged and counted as valid in the management process. While the decentralized management model opens for inclusion of different knowledge systems, this system has yet to acknowledge the challenges of knowledge being dismissed or marginalized across governance levels and scales.
Forskere: Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist, Camilla Risvoll, Randi Kaarhus, Aase-Kristine Aasen Lundberg, Camilla Sandström
Forskere: Mariell Jørstad, Ingrid H.E. Roaldsen, Elisabet Carine Ljunggren
