Knowledge-based growth in natural resource intensive economics : mining, knowledge development and innovation in Norway 1860-1940. / Kristin Ranestad.
Ranestad, Kristin, author.
2018
HC363.5 .R36 2018
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Title Knowledge-based growth in natural resource intensive economics : mining, knowledge development and innovation in Norway 1860-1940. / Kristin Ranestad.
Author Ranestad, Kristin, author.
ISBN 9783319964126 (electronic book)
3319964127 (electronic book)
3319964119
9783319964119
Published Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (291 pages).
Call Number HC363.5 .R36 2018
Summary 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 curse' argument is that some of the richest countries in the world - namely Norway, Sweden, Canada and Australia - have all developed fast-growing economies based on natural resources. Analysis of innovation and knowledge development in natural resource industries reveal important new insights about the role of learning and innovation. These insights are key to understanding variances in growth levels between natural resource-based economies. Ranestad illustrates how Norway's high economic performance is built on knowledge-based natural resource industries. While Norwegian industries may have originated because of foreign technology and expertise, they thrived due to further developments carried out by organisations within Norway. Ranestad looks at how these developments were possible due to the country's high level of human capital, capacity for knowledge absorption and ability to adapt to new global technological and economic circumstances. Kristin Ranestad is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research interests are in economic history, global history and the history of technology.-- Provided by publisher.
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Series Palgrave studies in economic history.
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Theoretical and historiographical framework
Introduction
An innovative and growing mining sector
Part II
Catching up with world mining : a model of mining knowledge
Part III
The university, the Norwegian Institute of technology (NIT), technical schools, and the mining school
Mining companies : domestic and foreign businesses
The capital goods industry
National geological survey of Norway
Conclusion.

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