Innovation genom samverkan: En kvalitativ studie av medierapportering i en perifer region - fallet Dalarna
(2025) SGEL36 20251Department of Human Geography
- Abstract
- Peripheral regions experience difficulties competing against core-regions competitiveness. Although studies have proposed that innovation is an aspect peripheral regions could focus on to combat this inequality, many innovation strategies are developed for urban core-regions and are not applicable on peripheral regions to the same extent. Earlier research has shown that peripheral regions benefit from innovation that includes civil society, known as social innovation, an aspect the Quadruple Helix-model takes into account when describing how collaboration encourages innovation. Therefore this study aims to examine how innovation in a peripheral region is promoted by collaboration between the actor groups; university, industry, government... (More)
- Peripheral regions experience difficulties competing against core-regions competitiveness. Although studies have proposed that innovation is an aspect peripheral regions could focus on to combat this inequality, many innovation strategies are developed for urban core-regions and are not applicable on peripheral regions to the same extent. Earlier research has shown that peripheral regions benefit from innovation that includes civil society, known as social innovation, an aspect the Quadruple Helix-model takes into account when describing how collaboration encourages innovation. Therefore this study aims to examine how innovation in a peripheral region is promoted by collaboration between the actor groups; university, industry, government and civil society. With a qualitative content analysis of media reports, this study examines and analyzes the peripheral Dalarna, a county in mid-Sweden with strong forest-, steel, and electricity production industry, and their work with innovation through collaboration. The study found that there has been reported collaboration between the actor groups with variation on quantity and quality. The study found that the collaboration with civil society was lacking and proposes two possible explanations for this; a result of the recurring critique on how to define and interpret civil society as a helix or due to Dalastrategin 2030 not being executed well enough to support actor groups on how to collaborate to encourage innovation. The study proposes for Dalarna to study earlier projects in peripheral regions that include civil society in collaboration with other actors and to focus on civil societies collaborations to encourage social innovation. (Less)
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- author
- Tegenrot, Mimmi LU and Johnsson, Linnea LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SGEL36 20251
- year
- 2025
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Peripheral regions, Quadruple Helix, Innovation, Collaboration, Civil society
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9194421
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- 2025-06-12 15:10:12
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abstract = {{Peripheral regions experience difficulties competing against core-regions competitiveness. Although studies have proposed that innovation is an aspect peripheral regions could focus on to combat this inequality, many innovation strategies are developed for urban core-regions and are not applicable on peripheral regions to the same extent. Earlier research has shown that peripheral regions benefit from innovation that includes civil society, known as social innovation, an aspect the Quadruple Helix-model takes into account when describing how collaboration encourages innovation. Therefore this study aims to examine how innovation in a peripheral region is promoted by collaboration between the actor groups; university, industry, government and civil society. With a qualitative content analysis of media reports, this study examines and analyzes the peripheral Dalarna, a county in mid-Sweden with strong forest-, steel, and electricity production industry, and their work with innovation through collaboration. The study found that there has been reported collaboration between the actor groups with variation on quantity and quality. The study found that the collaboration with civil society was lacking and proposes two possible explanations for this; a result of the recurring critique on how to define and interpret civil society as a helix or due to Dalastrategin 2030 not being executed well enough to support actor groups on how to collaborate to encourage innovation. The study proposes for Dalarna to study earlier projects in peripheral regions that include civil society in collaboration with other actors and to focus on civil societies collaborations to encourage social innovation.}},
author = {{Tegenrot, Mimmi and Johnsson, Linnea}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Innovation genom samverkan: En kvalitativ studie av medierapportering i en perifer region - fallet Dalarna}},
year = {{2025}},
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