Urban is a Professor in Human Geography and researches the interaction between competitiveness of businesses and the dynamics of local labour markets. Focus is on how a long-term competitiveness, assumed to spring from learning skills, can be converted into better products. Innovations often arise when people of different experiences interact. The acquired tacit knowledge is inextricably linked to the individual and interact more easily with others knowledge in limited geographical environments.
Focus political labor-market measures on the availability of complementary manpower in rural areas to give fast-growing companies better chances of survival. Fast-growing companies are an important resource for creating job opportunities in rural regions. They can be found in all fields, and contribute by providing new products or services. Studies on a selection of 1,589…
There is a prevailing view of the countryside that is generalized, and at times dark, as areas that exist merely for the cities and seldom as areas with their own innate value. Such a view causes one to miss the diversity found in our various types of rural areas. Even though some parts of the…
Today’s economy, which is based on the access to the right manpower and the spread of knowledge, has fundamentally changed the conditions for economic development in sparsely populated areas. However, despite a concentration of markets in urban areas, there are good examples of companies that have succeeded in more sparsely populated areas. Companies are growing…
Owning forest as an entrepreneur could increase the firms’ possibility to survive in a harsh economic environment. However, the effect is only visible for men and is more vivid in rural areas. 60 000 new firms are started in Sweden each year. These new firms gives hope of rural and regional development, stronger labour market…