Department of Economics

Eirik Vatne

E-mail:	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

Last updated: 2006-03-20. Contact: Dagny Kristiansen