Eirik Vatne

E-mail:

Eirik Vatne@nhh.no

Eirik Vatne

Telephone:

+ 47 55 95 97 38

Fax:

+ 47 55 95 93 93

Title:

Professor,  dr.oecon.

Nationality:

Norwegian

Teaching languages:

Norwegian, English

Teaching areas:

Undergraduate:

Location theory, Urban geography

Master:

Location theory, Business networks and innovation systems, China

Doctoral courses:

Agglomeration theory, Business networks and innovation systems

Research:

The petroleum industry - international location and local industrial dynamics, The spatiality of learning and innovation systems, SMEs and external resource dependence

Selected publications:
  • ’Technological Change, Local Capabilities and the Restructuring of a Company Town’, in Felsenstein, D. & Taylor, M. (eds): Promoting Local Growth. Process, practice and Policy. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2001
  • Vatne, E. & Taylor. M. (eds), The networked firm in a global world. Small firms in new environments. Ashgate, 2000
  • Maskell, P., Eskelinen, H., Hannibalsson, I. Malmberg, A. & Vatne, E., Competitiveness, Localised Learning and Regional Development. Specialisation and prosperity in small open economies. Routledge, 1998
  • ’Resources ou barrières à l’exportation? L’impact des réseaux locaux.’ Revue Internationale PME. Special issue on «Les PME et le territoire», Vol. 9, no 3-4, 1996. (With H. Eskelinen)
  • ’Local resource mobilization and internationalization strategies in small and medium sized enterprises." Environment and Planning A, vol. 27, ss. 63-80. London 1995.

Visiting professor/
visiting scholar:

London School of Economics and Political Science, 1983/84
University of Washington, Seattle, 1990/91