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Arne Isaksen is affiliated with the University of Agder in Norway and focuses their research within the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance; Social Sciences; and Business, Management and Accounting.

Their subfields of study include Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management, and Urban Studies.

Key research topics covered by Arne Isaksen encompass Regional Development and Policy, Regional Resilience and Development, Innovation and Knowledge Management, University-Industry-Government Innovation Models, Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis, Innovation Policy and R&D, and Cultural Industries and Urban Development.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Arne Isaksen include:

  • Regional innovation systems in an era of grand societal challenges: reorientation versus transformation, 2022, European Planning Studies
  • Digital transformation of regional industries through asset modification, 2020, Competitiveness Review An International Business Journal incorporating Journal of Global Competitiveness
  • Regional industrial restructuring: Asset modification and alignment for digitalization, 2020, Growth and Change

Other notable papers connected to their research circle include:

  • Unravelling green regional industrial path development: Regional preconditions, asset modification and agency, 2020, Geoforum
  • Rethinking regional economic resilience: Preconditions and processes shaping transformative resilience, 2023, European Urban and Regional Studies

Frequent co-authors in their work are:

  • Jan Ole Rypestøl
  • Michaela Trippl
  • Emelie Langemyr Eriksen
  • Björn Asheim
  • Jon P. Knudsen

The main publication venues where Arne Isaksen has contributed multiple works include European Planning Studies, Growth and Change, Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, Geoforum, and European Urban and Regional Studies.

Among their academic contributions, Arne Isaksen has authored a book titled Rural konkurransekraft, published by Fagbokforlaget eBooks in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Regional Innovation Systems: The Integration of Local ‘Sticky’ and Global ‘Ubiquitous’ Knowledge

    Bjørn T. Asheim;Bjørn T. Asheim;Arne Isaksen

  • Location, agglomeration and innovation: Towards regional innovation systems in Norway?

    Bjørn Terje Asheim;Arne Isaksen

  • Building Regional Innovation Systems: Is Endogenous Industrial Development Possible in the Global Economy?

    Arne Isaksen

  • Towards a comprehensive understanding of new regional industrial path development

    Robert Hassink;Arne Isaksen;Michaela Trippl

  • Regional Innovation Policy for Small-Medium Enterprises

    Bjorn T. Asheim;Arne Isaksen;Claire Nauwelaers;Franz Tödtling

  • Exogenous sources of regional industrial change: Attraction and absorption of non-local knowledge for new path development

    Michaela Trippl;Markus Grillitsch;Arne Isaksen

  • Industrial development in thin regions: trapped in path extension?

    Arne Isaksen

  • Path development in different regional innovation systems: A conceptual analysis

    Arne Isaksen;Michaela Trippl

  • Exogenously Led and Policy-Supported New Path Development in Peripheral Regions: Analytical and Synthetic Routes

    Arne Isaksen;Michaela Trippl

  • Regional industrial path development in different regional innovation systems: A conceptual analysis

    Arne Isaksen;Michaela Trippl

  • Unravelling green regional industrial path development: Regional preconditions, asset modification and agency

    Michaela Trippl;Michaela Trippl;Simon Baumgartinger-Seiringer;Alexandra Frangenheim;Arne Isaksen

  • Knowledge Intensive Business Services and Urban Industrial Development

    Heidi Wiig Aslesen And;Arne Isaksen

  • Regional industrial restructuring resulting from individual and system agency

    Arne Isaksen;Stig-Erik Jakobsen;Rune Njøs;Roger Normann

  • Different Modes of Innovation and the Challenge of Connecting Universities and Industry: Case Studies of Two Regional Industries in Norway

    Arne Isaksen;James Karlsen

  • Knowledge-based Clusters and Urban Location: The Clustering of Software Consultancy in Oslo

    Arne Isaksen

  • NEW PERSPECTIVES ON KNOWLEDGE‐INTENSIVE SERVICES AND INNOVATION

    Heidi Wiig Aslesen;Arne Isaksen

  • Innovation Dynamics of Global Competitive Regional Clusters: The Case of the Norwegian Centres of Expertise

    Arne Isaksen

  • Nordic City Regions in the Creative Class Debate—Putting the Creative Class Thesis to a Test

    Kristina Vaarst Andersen;Høgni Kalsø Hansen;Arne Isaksen;Mika Raunio

  • Advanced Introduction to Regional Innovation Systems

    Bjørn Terje Asheim;Arne Isaksen;Michaela Trippl

  • SMEs and the regional dimension of innovation

    Bjorn T. Asheim;Arne Isaksen

  • Regional industrial path development in different regional innovation systems: A conceptual analysis

    Arne Isaksen

Frequent Co-Authors

Michaela Trippl
Michaela Trippl University of Vienna
Björn Asheim
Björn Asheim University of Stavanger
Franz Tödtling
Franz Tödtling Vienna University of Economics and Business
Robert Hassink
Robert Hassink Kiel University
David Doloreux
David Doloreux HEC Montréal

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