Entrepreneurial renewal in a peripheral region: the case of a winter automotive-testing cluster in Sweden

Andrew Arbuthnott and Yvonne von Friedrichs

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2013, vol. 25, issue 5-6, 371-403

Abstract: This research paper generates new insights into renewal processes that may occur in peripheral regions. Key findings are presented from an explorative study on a regionally clustered automotive-testing industry, located in northern Sweden. The findings suggest that despite theoretically unfavourable conditions it is possible to progress regional industry after a peripheral setting's socio-economic relapses. Moreover, this research shows how, notwithstanding the importance of profitable service offerings, an entrepreneurial environment can be encouraged within a peripheral region and subsequent renewal achieved by advancing local networks , improving internationalization and enhancing local infrastructures related to a service-based regional industry. Consequently this research offers us a glimpse into a pioneering service-based renewal case which, in essence, differs from previously reported entrepreneurship scholarship.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2012.748095

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