Within the sustainability transitions literature, established, mature or incumbent firms have
been stereotyped as 'locked-in'to socio-technical regimes. However, we believe regimes …

The question of how regions and nations develop new sources of industrial growth is of
recurring interest in economic geography and planning studies. From an evolutionary …

Norway exemplifies a number of paradoxes in relation to the just transition from fossil fuels
to renewable energy provision. We investigate these paradoxes by focusing on key …

The urgency of a sustainability transition in the energy sector has led numerous authors to
argue that it can and should be accelerated through active phase-out, disruption and …

The development and deployment of clean technologies must be accelerated to avoid a
more than 2-degree warmer world. Redeployment of the vast resources concentrated in …

Australia and Norway have achieved modern levels of development as resource-based
economies, thus avoiding the so-called resource curse. Their ability to achieve this rested …

This paper analyses the co-evolution of science, technology and innovation policy and
industrial structure in a small, open, resource-based economy (Norway). The contributions of …

Since the 1990s it has become conventional wisdom that an abundance of natural
resources, most notably oil, is very likely to become a developmental “curse.” Recent …

This article expands the literature on the rationales and governance of state owned
enterprises (SOEs). We show that SOEs could be seen as instruments of innovation policies …

By the end of the twentieth century, a scholarly consensus emerged around the idea that oil
fuels authoritarianism and slow growth. The natural abundance once thought to be a …