Peripheries – the agenda
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Danson, M., & de Souza, P. (2013). Peripheries – the agenda. Fraser of Allander Economic commentary 36(spec.issue 4)6-11Sammendrag
Fra første side: According to analysis for the European Commission, three of the four leaders in innovation in the
European Union are the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland and Sweden – Germany being the other
(Innovation Union Scoreboard, http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/facts-figuresanalysis/
innovation-scoreboard/index_en.htm).
Confirming this tendency to modernity and adaptation to the demands of a globalised marketplace, in a
similar pan-European study, it has been observed that there are:
“economically successful regions with below average accessibility. Often ... sparsely
populated and remote ... in the Nordic Countries, north-east of Spain, Scotland, Ireland and
in and around northern Italy. ... Regions in the Nordic Countries, for example, have
overcome their peripheral location by capitalising on current strengths in relation to ICT,
research, educational and environmental opportunities and less on improving their
accessibility”. ESPON (2010), New Evidence on Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive
Territories. Polycentric Europe: smart, connected places, First ESPON 2013 Synthesis
Report.
http://www.espon.eu/export/sites/default/Documents/Publications/SynthesisReport/FirstOcto
ber10/fullversion.pdf).
Contributions to the book on Regional Development in Northern Europe : Peripherality, Marginality and
Border Issues,( edited by Mike Danson and Peter de Souza, published February 2012, Routledge) include
chapters which extend this particular research theme by focusing on specific regions, especially in
Scotland and Norway. Around the former, Davies et al. (2012) provide positive answers to the question of
“Can peripheral regions innovate?” while in the Norwegian context Bergum (2012) discusses “Proximity
and distributed innovations. Innovations ‘in the shadow of the clusters’’ revealing that, indeed, the ESPON
and CEC findings are transparent on the ground.
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