Knowledge-Based Growth in Natural Resource Intensive Economies Mining, Knowledge Development and Innovation in Norway 1860-1940 /

• Main Author: Ranestad, Kristin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History,
• Subjects: Economic history.; Economic geography.; Management.; Industrial management.; Natural resources.; Economic growth.; Development economics.; Economic History.; Economic Geography.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Natural Resource and Energy Economics.; Economic Growth.; Development Economics.

This book rejects the idea that natural resource industries are doomed to slow growth. Rather, it examines the case of Norway to demonstrate that such industries can prove highly innovative and dynamic. Here, the case is compellingly made that a key empirical problem with the popular 'resource...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Theoretical and Historiographical Framework
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: An Innovative and Growing Mining Sector
• Part II: Knowledge Development in Technologically Complex Mining: A Framework
• Chapter 3: Catching-up with World Mining: A Model of Mining Knowledge
• Part III: A Historical Empirical Analysis of Knowledge Organisations
• Chapter 4: The University, the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NIT), Technical Schools and the Mining School
• Chapter 5: Mining Companies: Domestic and Foreign Businesses
• Chapter 6: The Capital Goods Industry
• Chapter 7: National Geological Survey of Norway
• Part IV: Conclusion
• Chapter 8: Concluding Discussion and Remarks.