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Social Sciences and Humanities
Norway
2025

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
55
Citations
24151
World Ranking
1959
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Björn Asheim is affiliated with the University of Stavanger in Norway and has a research profile spanning social sciences, economics, business, and management fields. Their work is predominantly focused on regional development, innovation systems, and economic geography.

The primary fields of study associated with Björn Asheim include Social Sciences, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Business, Management and Accounting. Their specific subfields encompass Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management, and Urban Studies.

Björn Asheim's research addresses topics such as:

  • Regional Development and Policy
  • Regional resilience and development
  • University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Cultural Industries and Urban Development
  • Polish socio-economic development

Recent publications by Asheim include the following papers:

  • "Universities as orchestrators of the development of regional innovation ecosystems in emerging economies," 2020, Growth and Change
  • "Regional innovation systems: what can we learn from 25 years of scientific achievements?", 2020, Regional Studies
  • "Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis," 2022, Regional Studies
  • "Temporality of agency in regional development," 2021, European Urban and Regional Studies
  • "Advancing the treatment of human agency in the analysis of regional economic development: Illustrated with three Norwegian cases," 2021, Growth and Change

The most frequent co-authors collaborating with Björn Asheim are:

  • Markus Grillitsch
  • H. Dean Nielsen
  • Silje Haus-Reve
  • Karl-Johan Lundquist
  • Mikhail Martynovich

Asheim has published multiple articles in well-known academic venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Regional Studies
  • Growth and Change
  • Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography
  • European Planning Studies
  • European Urban and Regional Studies

Additionally, Björn Asheim has authored a book titled Regions and Innovation Policies in Europe: Learning from the Margins, published in 2020 by Universidad Internacional de La Rioja.

Best Publications

  • The Geography of Innovation: Regional Innovation Systems

    Bjørn T. Asheim;Meric S. Gertler

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

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

  • Knowledge bases and Regional Innovation Systems: Comparing Nordic Clusters.

    Bjørn T. Asheim;Bjørn T. Asheim;Lars Coenen

  • Industrial Districts as ‘Learning Regions’: A Condition for Prosperity

    Bjørn T. Asheim

  • Constructing Regional advantage: Platform Policies Based on Related Variety and Differentiated Knowledge Bases

    Bjorn T. Asheim;Ron Boschma;Philip Nicholas Cooke

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

    Bjørn Terje Asheim;Arne Isaksen

  • Regional Innovation Systems: Theory, Empirics and Policy

    Bjorn T. Asheim;Helen Lawton Smith;Christine Oughton

  • Face-to-Face, Buzz and Knowledge Bases: Socio-Spatial Implications for Learning, Innovation and Innovation Policy

    Björn Asheim;Lars Coenen;Jan Vang-Lauridsen

  • Contextualising Regional Innovation Systems in a Globalising Learning Economy: On Knowledge Bases and Institutional Frameworks

    Bjørn T. Asheim;Bjørn T. Asheim;Lars Coenen

  • Differentiated Knowledge Bases and Varieties of Regional Innovation Systems

    Björn Asheim

  • Constructing knowledge-based regional advantage: Implications for regional innovation policy

    Bjorn Asheim;Lars Coenen;Jerker Moodysson;Jan Vang

  • Knowledge Bases, Talents, and Contexts: On the Usefulness of the Creative Class Approach in Sweden

    Bjorn T. Asheim;Høgni Kalsø Hansen

  • Regional Innovation Policy for Small-Medium Enterprises

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

  • Explaining Spatial Patterns of Innovation: Analytical and Synthetic Modes of Knowledge Creation in the Medicon Valley Life-Science Cluster:

    Jerker Moodysson;Lars Coenen;Bjørn Asheim

  • Nodes, networks and proximities: on the knowledge dynamics of the Medicon Valley biotech cluster

    Lars Coenen;Jerker Moodysson;Bjørn T. Asheim

  • Unrelated knowledge combinations: the unexplored potential for regional industrial path development

    Markus Grillitsch;Bjørn Asheim;Michaela Trippl;Michaela Trippl

  • Handbook of Regional Innovation and Growth

    Philip Cooke;Bjørn Asheim;Ron Boschma;Ron Martin

  • Learning regions as development coalitions: Partnership as governance in European workfare states?

    Björn T. Asheim

  • Clusters and Regional Development: Critical reflections and explorations.

    Bjørn Terje Asheim;Philip Nicholas Cooke;R. L. Martin

  • Regional innovation systems: past – present – future

    Björn T. Asheim;Markus Grillitsch;Michaela Trippl

  • Explaining Spatial Patterns of Innovation: Analytical and Synthetic Modes of Knowledge Creation in the Medicon Valley Life Science Cluster, paper

    Jerker Moodysson;Lars Coenen;Björn Asheim

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Coenen
Lars Coenen University of Melbourne
Michaela Trippl
Michaela Trippl University of Vienna
Arne Isaksen
Arne Isaksen University of Agder
Meric S. Gertler
Meric S. Gertler University of Toronto
Ron Boschma
Ron Boschma Utrecht University
Richard Florida
Richard Florida University of Toronto
Franz Tödtling
Franz Tödtling Vienna University of Economics and Business
Paul Stephen Benneworth
Paul Stephen Benneworth University of Bergen
John Goddard
John Goddard Newcastle University

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