Jubilee Seminar for Professor Knut Bjørn Lindkvist
Time: 14.12.2012 13.00 - 14.12.2012 16.00
Location: Little AuditoriumFaculty of Social ScienceFosswinckelsgate 6
Knut Bjørn Lindkvist Foto: Christin Vaag
On the occasion of Professor Knut Bjørn Lindkvist's 70th anniversary in December, the Department of Geography organizes the seminar:
Footprints of economic geography: Research, Policy and implementation
Staff, master students and invited guests are welcome!
SESSION I
Chair: Inger Beate Pettersen
Associate Professor, Bergen University College
13:00
Welcome
Svein Olaf Dahl
Head of Department
13:05-13:25
Nature, tradition and innovation in peripheral regions: lessons from Norway and Spain
José Luis Sánchez Hernández
Profesor Titular de Geografía Humana, Universidad de Salamanca
13:25-13:45
Regional innovation, service innovation and the system perspective. Any match?
Eirik Vatne
Professor of Economic Geography, Norwegian School of Economics
13.45-14:00
Hegemonic ideas and local adaptations: Development of the Norwegian restructuring instrument
Stig-Erik Jakobsen
Professor in Economic Geography, Bergen University College
14:00-15:00
Lunch
SESSION II
Chair: Heidi Bjønnes Larsen
PhD-Candidat, University of Bergen
15:00-15:15
The making of Chinese wind turbines and the Multi-Angle Perspective (MAP)
Gard Hopsdal Hansen
Researcher, NTNU
15:15-15:30
Coordination of the value chain of marin fishing tourism
Heidi Holmgren
PhD-Candidate, Finnmark University College/University of Bergen
15:30-15:45
Business as usual. Management strategies structures and geographical arrangements for services in production systems
Grete Rusten
Professor of Economic Geography, University of Bergen
15:45-16:00
Clusters as actants
Arnt Fløysand
Professor of Human Geography, University of Bergen