Forskere: Atle Ødegård, Trude Fløystad Eines, Bjarte Bye Løfaldli
Forskere: Atle Ødegård, Marie Aakjær, Charlotte Wegener, Anna Elisabeth Willumsen, Marianne Storm, Anne Marie Lunde Husebø, Charlotte Wegener
Forskere: Are Jensen, Nhien Nguyen, Jens Ørding Hansen
Forskere: Trond Bliksvær, Janne Irén Paulsen Breimo
Forskere: Atle Ødegård, Stål Bjørkly
Forskere: Karl Jan Solstad
Forskere: Helga Eggebø, Anja Bredal, Astrid M.A Eriksen
Forskere: Grete Kaare Hovelsrud, Camilla Risvoll, Jan Åge Riseth, Hans Tømmervik, Anna Omazic, Ann Albihn
Forskere: Tali Padan, Nhien Nguyen
Forskere: Karl Jan Solstad, Gunilla Karlberg-Granlund
Forskere: Kjersti Granås Bardal
Forskere: Atle Ødegård, Anna Elisabeth Willumsen, Tore Sirnes
Forskere: Camilla Risvoll, Randi Kaarhus
Forskere: Evgueni Vinogradov, Abbas Strømmen-Bakhtiar
Forskere: Nhien Nguyen, Åge Mariussen, Jens Ørding Hansen
Forskere: Maiken Bjørkan, Petter Holm, Asgeir Aglen, Jan Andersen
Forskere: Atle Ødegård, Siv Elin Nord Sæbjørnsen, Susanne Marie Lindqvist, Frøydis Perny Vasset, Hans Petter Iversen, Anna Elisabeth Willumsen, Tore Sirnes, Synnøve Hofseth Almås
This chapter analyses experiences of violence among queer immigrants in Norway. The aim of the chapter is to explore the various experiences of violence, and how vulnerability to violence is related to the wider patterns of discrimination and juridical, economic and social marginalisation. Based on an inductive analysis of interviews with 41 lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people with immigrant backgrounds, we have identified four key themes: 1) Sexual abuse, 2) violence in relation to coming out as queer, 3) exposure to violence within Norwegian institutions dealing with immigration and integration, and 4) racism and violence. The experiences of violence that the participants talk about include violence from family members, acquaintances, strangers and representatives of public institutions. In order to understand queer immigrants’ experiences of violence, it is necessary to focus on the interconnectedness of various forms of violence that take place in different arenas and in different relationships. Moreover, violence needs to be understood in connection to discrimination and marginalisation based on the status as
immigrant and queer.
Forskere: Helga Eggebø, Elisabeth Stubberud
Forskere: Maiken Bjørkan, Joan Baptista Company, Giulia Gorelli, Francesc Sardà, Conrad Massaguer
There are two ways of meeting the challenges of restructuring: (1) as reactions to disruptions, market shifts or other types of turbulence that come as a surprise, or (2) proactively, by continuously enhancing the capacity to explore new opportunities and develop new products and areas of business through diversification and innovation (Mariussen et al., 2018). The reactive strategy often involves an over-reliance on the exploitation of existing technologies, markets and products; while the proactive strategy using innovation and a co-creation approach can lead to sustainable development and growth. To proactively restructure the economy, a country should search for the new domains of knowledge, business, industry to confer the ability and capacity to change before the economic situation becomes desperate. The search process is best undertaken jointly between the innovators, that is, innovation firms, entrepreneurs, researchers, and other parts of the innovation system, such as the government and organizations promoting innovation policy. This allows a stronger emphasis on exploration through partnerships between policy makers, entrepreneurs, and scholars, which is the core idea of the smart specialisation approach.
This chapter discusses a proactive approach to economic restructuring and growth, specifically, smart specialisation. The study begins by introducing several approaches to, and strategies of, economic growth, such as diversification and the complexity model. The complexity concept in this model is one of complicated composition rather than complex systemic behaviour (Price, 2004; see also extensive discussions in Chapters 7 and 9 in this volume Aasen, 2018; Virkkala and Mariussen, 2018). To facilitate this point of departure the chapter uses secondary data from the Atlas of Economic Complexity (Hausmann and Pritchett, 2018) to illustrate a gap in these theories. Next, we use smart specialisation theory to explain this gap, and how its mechanism, the entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP), can contribute to economic growth in advanced countries. One of the important conditions for EDP to work is the ambidextrous capability of firms to explore new domains and exploit current strengths at the same time. Norway is used as an illustration case.
Forskere: Nhien Nguyen, Åge Mariussen
