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

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  • Andrew Arbuthnott
  • Yvonne von Friedrichs

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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.

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  • Andrew Arbuthnott & Yvonne von Friedrichs, 2013. "Entrepreneurial renewal in a peripheral region: the case of a winter automotive-testing cluster in Sweden," Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(5-6), pages 371-403, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:entreg:v:25:y:2013:i:5-6:p:371-403
    DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2012.748095
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