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Innovations and ecosystems : a characterization of Smart Tampere innovation ecosystem

2019

Master's thesis Innovative governance and public management ME523 - University of Agder 2019 The following thesis focuses on innovation ecosystem. As described in thefirst section, innovations are of great importance for tackling global challenges such as climate change andthus,of relevancy for the regional economic development. The growing importance of innovationshas motivated numerous new approaches to innovation management, especiallyin the last years the approach ofinnovation ecosystem.In the secondsection, the concept of innovation ecosystem is introduced and the most relevantconcepts from the literature are discussed. It thereby compares innovation ecosystem to other concepts such as…

Defending the Nordic model: Understanding the moral universe of the Norwegian working class

2021

In recent years, much attention has been paid to the white working class’ concern with their declining position in the neoliberal era. The hypothesis that social and economic insecurity provoke anger and xenophobia are unable to account for the Norwegian case. The Nordic model still acts as a buffer against neoliberal capitalism, making the white Norwegian working class less vulnerable than in comparable countries. This paper will argue that the Norwegian working class has defended the Nordic model by utilising a range of moral values. I use 56 qualitative interviews to examine the morality of the white Norwegian working class. The study is theoretically and methodologically inspired by Bol…

Sport and civil society in the Nordic region

2017

This paper examines the key elements within the relationships of sport and civil society in Scandinavia. The analysis combines themes and developments in Nordic sport and civil society, such as the role of the welfare state and the impacts of neoliberalism, with consideration of specific national experiences, especially in Finland. The discussion has four main parts. First, we set out the principal features of the ‘Nordic model’ of society, and how it shapes sport and civil society relations. Second, we advance a Finnish case study, examining the historical connections of three sectors to the national sport culture. Third, we consider how, in recent decades, the Nordic model has encountered…

‘Something’s Not Right in Silverhöjd’: Nordic Supernatural and Environmental and Species Justice in Jordskott

2022

In the Swedish/Finnish/British/Norwegian television series Jordskott (2015–17) child victims’ mysterious disappearances signal that ‘something’s not right’ in Silverhöjd, a Swedish town. Three detectives uncover a conflict between the locals who depend on a local industry and preternatural human-like but non-human forest creatures familiar from Nordic tradition and fairylore. Both humans and semi/non-humans are ambivalent, but what sets the latter apart is their implication in caring for nature, protecting it, and punishing those who harm it. We analyse this series’ instantiation of a folkloristic popular green criminology, based in the idea that popular discourses’ representations of crime…

Nordic cultural policy

2008

The rationale for publishing a special Nordic issue of the IJCP might be to throw into relief a specific Nordic model of cultural policy that deserves international academic interest. It might also...

Local, Natural, Authentic: New Nordic Cuisine as Economic Trend and Cultural Resistance

2020

Employment status and occupational positions of childhood cancer survivors from Denmark, Finland and Sweden: A Nordic register-based cohort study fro…

2021

Background: A childhood cancer diagnosis and late effects of treatment may affect survivors' possibilities of employment or highly skilled occupations later in life. In this study, we compared the employment and occupational status of childhood cancer survivors with population comparisons and siblings.Methods: In a cohort study based on Nordic registers, we identified 10 461 survivors of childhood cancer diagnosed before age 20 years in Denmark, Finland and Sweden since 1971. Survivors were compared with 48 928 population comparisons matched to survivors by age, sex and geographical region and 12 605 siblings of survivors. Annual outcome information on employment, unemployment, health-relat…

Uztura atbilstība ziemeļvalstu diētai un adipozitātes saistība Latvijas vispārējā populācijā

2022

Mērķis Šajā darbā izklāstītā pētījuma vispārējais mērķis bija novērtēt Jaunās Ziemeļvalstu diētas (JZD) rezultāts, novērtējiet saistību starp JZD punktu (JZDP) skaitu un vispārējo, vēdera un viscerālo aptaukošanos, izmantojot Jaunās Ziemeļvalstu diētas rezultātu kā rādītāju diētas ievērošana un antropometriskie mērījumi, tostarp ĶMI, viduklis apkārtmērs (VA), sagitālais vēdera diametrs (SAD) un vidukļa un gurnu attiecība (VGA) kā aptaukošanās indikatoru. Materiāls un metodes Dizains Pētījums ir potenciālā kohorta. Galvenā ekspozīcija bija ekspozīcija un Jaunās Ziemeļvalstu diētas ievērošana tiek klasificēta kā zema, vidēja un augsta adhēzija. Galvenais iznākums bija vispārēja, vēdera un vis…

Rationalising public support for private early childhood education and care: the case of Finland

2019

In Finland, early childhood education and care (ECEC) is traditionally publicly provided. However, private ECEC provision has increased during the past decade, largely as a result of financial support from the public sector. Drawing on qualitative interviews with municipal decision-makers, this article identifies three frames within which publicly subsidised private ECEC provision and marketisation are rationalised: the pragmatic frame, the government frame and the choice frame. The results show that even though market logics and tendencies seem to have gained a strong foothold in local policies, there is a keen interest in universalism and maintaining public control over local ECEC provisi…

Younger children in ECEC: focus on the national steering documents in the Nordic countries

2015

The aim of this study was to review the national steering documents on early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, with the focus on children up to the age of three, posing the question: What do these documents tell us about ECEC for younger children in the Nordic early childhood settings? Methodologically, a qualitative document analysis was applied. The documents provide a picture of young children whose age, individual needs and a number of other factors, such as cultural background, should be taken into account in ECEC. These children learn holistically, in close interaction with their environment. Their safety and well-being are seen as pa…