When it was agreed to move Oslo's main airport North of the city, the area of the previous airport Fornebu - on a peninsula close to the city itself - was freed for alternative uses. Norsk Investorforum (Norwegian Investor Forum) was commissioned by the government entity in charge (Statsbygg) to...

This report, commissioned by the Norwegian Farmers' Association (Norges Bondelag) and Norway's Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, takes a long term view of the theoretical and practical relationships between rural industries - agriculture and forestry - and urban industries,...

This paper by Erik Reinert and Egbert van de Schootbrugge was commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development. Based on Schumpeterian analysis, the paper discusses the theoretical relationships between innovation and geography in general, and more specifically...

This lengthy report is the result of a research project originally started by attempting to explain why the Saami reindeer herders in Norway - the last aboriginal tribe in Western Europe - in spite of having a monopoly on the production of reindeer meat, traditionally a luxury food item in...

This paper discusses the forces behind the rise of the service sector - the tertiary sector - in modern economies, and examines the different roles played by the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors in the process of economic growth.

This paper attempts to establish a theoretical foundation for regional policy. While mainstream economics tends to create a theory of even development, equilibrium, and market-induced harmony, this paper focuses on economic activities being qualitatively different as carriers of economic growth,...