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Bjarnar, Ove; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld
(2023).
Reflections on narrative context and diverging paths in cluster evolution.
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Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld & Bjarnar, Ove
(2022).
Agency og kontekst som teoretiske begrep for å forstå klyngers utvikling.
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Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld; Bjarnar, Ove & Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik
(2022).
Is there an agency – context paradox in recent understandings of cluster evolution? .
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Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld; Bjarnar, Ove & Berge, Dag Magne
(2019).
Digitization and knowledge in regional development.
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Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld; Bjarnar, Ove & Berge, Dag Magne
(2019).
Digitalisering og kunnskapsutvikling.
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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Bjarnar, Ove & Berge, Dag Magne
(2018).
Resilience and related variety: The role of family firms in an ocean-related Norwegian region.
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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Bjarnar, Ove & Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld
(2017).
Making sense of organizations in globalized clusters.
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Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld & Bjarnar, Ove
(2016).
Cluster evolution and the path-dependent properties of sourcing strategies.
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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove
(2016).
"Dynamic and flexible clusters as determinants for localization: The relationship between ocean-related industries on the west coast of Norway in the 19th and 20th century".
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Berge, Dag Magne & Bjarnar, Ove
(2015).
The political economy of knowledge flows and innovation in Norwegian salmon farming, 1970 – 2000.
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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Lunnan, Randi; Bjarnar, Ove & Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld
(2015).
The in-between firm specific and country factors : the role of clusters in internationalization decisions.
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Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld & Bjarnar, Ove
(2014).
Hvordan vil globaliseringen utfordre klyngenes innovasjonsevne?
I ., . (Red.),
Nye samarbeidsformer i maritim industri.
Handelshøyskolen BI.
s. 10–11.
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Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld & Bjarnar, Ove
(2014).
Henter vi kunnskap globalt? : noen kritiske perspektiver på forestillinger om den globale maritime kunnskapsklyngen.
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Bjarnar, Ove
(2013).
Bygdefeminismen.
I Bjarnar, Ove & Heggdal, Sissel Hagerup (Red.),
Qvam og kvinnene.
Stemmerettsjubileet i Molde.
ISSN 978-82-7955-133-1.
s. 77–99.
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Bygdefeminismen - Kvinnekamp og helsearbeid i Molde.
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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Bjarnar, Ove & Wang, Jinmin
(2013).
Connecting clusters across the globe through global production networks: Norwegian maritime multinationals in the Yangtze River Delta.
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Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld & Bjarnar, Ove
(2013).
Den historiske utviklingen av den maritime klyngen i Møre og Romsdal.
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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove
(2010).
Globalization and the transformation of clusters: A comparative study of two clusters.
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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove
(2009).
Strategy, knowledge transfer in clusters, and external pressure.
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Bjarnar, Ove
(2009).
Kunnskapsoverføring mellom klynger - regionale og globale utfordringer.
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Bjarnar, Ove
(2009).
Transformation of knowledge flow in globalizing regional clusters.
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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove
(2008).
Global pipelines and diverging patterns of knowledge sharing in regional clusters.
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Berge, Dag Magne & Bjarnar, Ove
(2008).
Long term structural and international transformation pressures on knowledge flow and knowledge creation in old regional clusters - the Møre and Romsdal maritime cluster in Mid-West Norway, 1960s-2008.
I Hardy, Sally; Larsen, Lisa Bibby & Freeland, Frankie (Red.),
Regions : the Dilemmas of Integration and Competition? - Abstract Book.
Regional Studies Association.
ISSN 978-1-897721-33-9.
s. 1–16.
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Various academic disciplines have noticed that economic activity tends to be concentrated in particular locations. Across different territorial innovation models it is proposed that the major advantage of geographical and social proximity is increased dissemination of knowledge. Clusters accumulate formal and tacit knowledge which no single business can fully contain within its organisation. Accordingly, highly specialised knowledge is accessed through networking within clusters. Recent studies question whether or not structural changes, internationalisation and globalisation processes are reducing the importance of local contextual and tacit knowledge and its transfer within old regional clusters as knowledge accumulation becomes more formalised or even independent of space. On the other hand, in order to become competitive businesses may increasingly be depending on localised interactive learning processes within clusters. Modernization processes may thus promote rather than reduce the importance of location in the organisation of economic life. However, such studies have focused less on the possibility that technological innovations - directly or indirectly - may alter, disrupt or even have a deteriorating effect on the hitherto institutional prerequisites for regional innovative excellence. This is the main theme of the paper, as we will demonstrate how technological innovations over time may undermine the institutional conditions that earlier on formed a basis for the very same innovations, thus diminishing the space for new innovations and regional development. The paper discusses changing patterns of knowledge flow in the regional maritime cluster in Møre and Romsdal in Mid-West Norway from the 1920s and to the present in light of national and international regulations, structural changes and internationalisation processes. The cluster is seen as the most complete and comprehensive maritime cluster in Norway as well as globally leading. A basic organisational form, namely small shipping companies within deep sea fishing, where the active skipper was owner or partner and controlled strategic decisions, has been particularly important in promoting an extensive flow of knowledge within the maritime cluster. These companies have intersected experience based specialised knowledge with more formal and technological knowledge as the skipper-owners have interacted closely with shipyards, mechanical industry and producers of electronic equipment and hydraulic devices. This flow of knowledge placed the regional cluster in the international forefront. The region was in the forefront in the many technological revolutions in fishing in the 1960s, as in the adaptation of thrusters to fishing boats, power-bloc, electronic fish-finding technology and auto line systems. Since the 1970s, moreover, a substantial flow of knowledge and innovations to new blooming industries was facilitated, as many of the skipper-owners pioneered businesses within offshore supply services, fish farming and marine industry. The technological revolutions seem to have affected these institutional settings through two distinct historical phases. Firstly, the new technology fostered a specialisation among shipowners and fishing vessels. Secondly, the new technology was so effective that without public regulation the fishing industry was capable of emptying the sea. ... (Forkortet).
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Bjarnar, Ove
(2005).
Det nye og globale kunnskapssamfunnet.
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Løseth, Arnljot; Gammelsæter, Hallgeir & Bjarnar, Ove
(2004).
Historiske forskjeller setter fortsatt sitt preg.
Sunnmørsposten.
ISSN 1503-9056.
122(11.05.2004).
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Løseth, Arnljot; Gammelsæter, Hallgeir & Bjarnar, Ove
(2004).
Næringskulturer i Møre og Romsdal.
Sunnmørsposten.
ISSN 1503-9056.
122(10.05.2004).
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Løseth, Arnljot; Gammelsæter, Hallgeir & Bjarnar, Ove
(2004).
Nordmøringer, romsdalinger og sunnmøringer.
Sunnmørsposten.
ISSN 1503-9056.
122(07.05.2004).
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Bjarnar, Ove
(2003).
Flow of knowledge in regional dissemination systems.
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Bjarnar, Ove
(2003).
Bokomtale: Det nye organisasjonssamfunnet : demokrati i omforming / Dag Wollebæk og Per Selle.
Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning.
ISSN 0809-2052.
6(1),
s. 66–68.
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Berge, Dag Magne & Bjarnar, Ove
(2003).
Between "learning by learning" and "learned incapacity to learn" : the political structure of knowledge flows in norwegian and scottish fishfarming.
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Bjarnar, Ove & Gammelsæter, Hallgeir
(2003).
Convergent and divergent regional business cultures.
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This paper discusses whether regional business cultures can be classifies as more or less convergent in terms of the extent to which business actors share basic assumptions and value that are directed towards maintaining or building regional strengths, identities and innovativeness. Building on Weber's distinction between value rationality and instrumental rationality in social action, we hypothesise that there is a positive correlation between convergent regional business cultures, where individual actors reflect the collective in their individual acts, and successful regional development. Conversely, when business actors in a region consistently fail to reflect the collective interest in their decision-making, the regional identity will weaken and the consequences may in the long run be negative for regions and also for individual actors. Convergent cultures are characterised by a web of stable arenas of interaction, formal and informal. Divergent cultures to a larger extent rest on instrumental rational assumptions in cooperative patterns and on symmetrical relations between actors. Only actors that according to the calculation of the stronger part add value to the economic project are included in the joint effort. Since situations and calculations are likely to shift over time, however, the arenas of interaction are also likely to shift. Hence arenas become both exclusive and unstable. We hypothesise that relatively stable arenas of interaction (convergent cultures) are more likely to produce innovation than are interaction patterns promoting exclusion, exclusiveness and unstable arenas (divergent cultures). The focal territory is the county of Møre and Romsdal in the middle of coastal Norway. Inside the county there is the widespread view that the people living or originating from the southern parts is more industrious, entrepreneurial and successful than the people from the northern part of the region. The paper investigates the "reality" of these conceptions and study to what extent the extreme points of the region are producing and reproducing convergent or divergent business cultures. The paper is based on interviews with a number of business leaders about their impressions as well as on their experiences with doing business with their respective neighbours. We also investigate the extent to which these observed differences are consistent with longitudinal historical analyses of the different sub-regions.
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Bjarnar, Ove
(2003).
Frivillige organisasjoners velferdsstatsprosjekt ca. 1900-2000.
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Bjarnar, Ove
(2003).
Veivisere til velferdsstaten : frivillige organisasjoners velferdsstatsprosjekt innen helse- og sosialfeltet ca. 1900-2000.
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Bjarnar, Ove
(2003).
Det nye organisasjonssamfunnet : demokrati i omforming / Dag Wollebæk og Per Selle. - Bergen: Fagbokforlaget, 2002.
Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning.
ISSN 0809-2052.
6(1),
s. 66–68.
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Bjarnar, Ove & Kipping, Matthias
(2002).
Modelling the transfer of organisational models and practices : beyond "symbolic" neo-institutionalism.
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This paper aims to develop a conceptual framework for the transfer of organisational models and practices, which goes beyond some of the simplifying assumptions made in prevalent approaches. In order to do so, the paper compares the insights from the sociological and historical literature on the transfer of American models to Europe in the post-war period. The paper proceeds in three steps. In the first step, we critically examine some of the existing, theory-driven approaches, highlight that all of these are based on what we call "symbolic" neo-institutionalism, which namely assumes that the environment of organisations produces rather clear-cut "models". In a second step we show that this variant of neo-institutional is a very reduced version of neo-institutional thinking. In a final step we develop an alternative framework, combining the neo-institutional approach with insights from the literature on the dissemination of innovations, illustrating it with examples from recent historical research on Americanisation.
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Bjarnar, Ove
(2001).
Knowledge as platform for strategy.
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Bjarnar, Ove
(2001).
Perspectives on the consulting business.
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Bjarnar, Ove
(2000).
The development of Nordic welfare societies : the role of women.
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Bjarnar, Ove; Amdam, Rolv Petter & Gammelsæter, Hallgeir
(1998).
Management education and dissemination of knowledge in "Regional innovation systems" : the case of Norway 1930s - 1990s.
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Bjarnar, Ove; Haugen, Kjetil Kåre; Hervik, Arild; Olstad, Asmund; Oterhals, Oddmund & Risnes, Martin
(2010).
Nyskaping og næringsutvikling i Møre og Romsdal : sluttrapport.
Møreforsking Molde AS.
ISSN 0803-9259.
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GMS prosjektet "Nyskaping og næringsutvikling i Møre og Romsdal" har hatt sitt faglige fokus rettet mot den videre utvikling av verdiskapingspotensialet i den maritime næringsklyngen i regionen. Arbeidet har vært nær knyttet opp til et langvarig arbeid i fagmiljøet med næringsøkonomiske studier av den maritime klyngen. Utsiktene for den videre utvikling i den maritime næringen etter den globale finanskrisen, har vært et dominerende tema i prosjektet den siste tiden. Arbeidet innen dette prosjektet har gitt anledning til å inkludere sentrale tema som innovasjon og kunnskapsdeling i globale og regionale næringsklynger. Det er i prosjektet utviklet en modell for logistikkplanlegging knyttet til produksjon på ulike geografiske steder og ved bruk av ulik type arbeidskraft. Modellen gir et grunnlag for å drøfte spørsmål knyttet til outsourcing ved produksjon i lavkostland. Det har videre vært arbeidet med å utvikle et beslutningsstøtteverktøy for operasjonell planlegging i prosjektorientert produksjon. Prosjektet har vært gjennomført i tett dialog mellom referansegruppen og prosjektgruppen. Referansegruppen har ut fra sin brede erfaring fra næringen, på en meget konstruktiv måte bidratt til å fange opp sentrale forskningsmessige tema som er av stor praktisk relevans for næringen. Vi ser denne arbeidsformen som et eksempel på et vellykket samarbeid mellom bedrift/næring og forskningsmiljø. Samlet har prosjektet på en meget god måte bidratt til å bygge ut og styrke den samlede forskningskompetansen ved Høgskolen i Molde og Møreforsking Molde AS, på områder av potensiell stor betydning for den videre utvikling i den maritime næringen. Flere av de forskningsmessige temaene som er tatt opp i prosjektet er under videre utvikling gjennom andre prosjekter ved Høgskolen i Molde/Møreforsking. Tilbakemeldingene fra bedriftsrepresentanter er at resultatene fra prosjektet blir oppfattet som relevante og nyttige for å forstå og takle de utfordringene en står ovenfor og gjennom dette bidra til en videre utvikling av verdiskapingspotensialet for den maritime næringsklyngen i Møre og Romsdal.
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Bjarnar, Ove
(2008).
Global pipelines and diverging patterns of knowledge sharing in regional clusters.
Høgskolen i Molde.
ISSN 978-82-7962-089-1.
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Bjarnar, Ove
(2008).
Fagmiljøer, pasienter og samfunnsendring i en psykiatrisk institusjon : Opdøl sjukehus (1913-2013) : om institusjonell helsetjenesteforskning med basis i en organisasjonshistorie om Opdøl sjukehus.
Høgskolen i Molde.
ISSN 978-82-7962-090-7.
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Bjarnar, Ove
(2004).
En stille kvinnerevolusjon : Molde sanitetsforening 1904-2004.
Molde sanitetsforening.
ISSN 8279550577.
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Bjarnar, Ove & Gammelsæter, Hallgeir
(2003).
Convergent and divergent regional business cultures.
Høgskolen i Molde.
ISSN 82-7962-037-0.
Vis sammendrag
This paper discusses whether regional business cultures can be classifies as more or less convergent in terms of the extent to which business actors share basic assumptions and value that are directed towards maintaining or building regional strengths, identities and innovativeness. Building on Weber's distinction between value rationality and instrumental rationality in social action, we hypothesise that there is a positive correlation between convergent regional business cultures, where individual actors reflect the collective in their individual acts, and successful regional development. Conversely, when business actors in a region consistently fail to reflect the collective interest in their decision-making, the regional identity will weaken and the consequences may in the long run be negative for regions and also for individual actors. Convergent cultures are characterised by a web of stable arenas of interaction, formal and informal. Divergent cultures to a larger extent rest on instrumental rational assumptions in cooperative patterns and on symmetrical relations between actors. Only actors that according to the calculation of the stronger part add value to the economic project are included in the joint effort. Since situations and calculations are likely to shift over time, however, the arenas of interaction are also likely to shift. Hence arenas become both exclusive and unstable. We hypothesise that relatively stable arenas of interaction (convergent cultures) are more likely to produce innovation than are interaction patterns promoting exclusion, exclusiveness and unstable arenas (divergent cultures). The focal territory is the county of Møre and Romsdal in the middle of coastal Norway. Inside the county there is the widespread view that the people living or originating from the southern parts is more industrious, entrepreneurial and successful than the people from the northern part of the region. The paper investigates the "reality" of these conceptions and study to what extent the extreme points of the region are producing and reproducing convergent or divergent business cultures. The paper is based on interviews with a number of business leaders about their impressions as well as on their experiences with doing business with their respective neighbours. We also investigate the extent to which these observed differences are consistent with longitudinal historical analyses of the different sub-regions.
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Bjarnar, Ove
(2000).
Oslo Sanitetsforenings Revmatismesykehus og dets rolle i behandlingen av revmatiske sykdommer i Norge 1988-1998.
Oslo Sanitetsforening.
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Gammelsæter, Hallgeir; Berge, Dag Magne; Husby, Solveig & Bjarnar, Ove
(2000).
Bedriftsutvikling eller stimulering av innovasjonsmiljø? : midtveis-evaluering av SMB-kompetanse.
Møreforsking Molde.
ISSN 82-7830-037-2.
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SMB-kompetanse (SMB-K) er et prosjekt med nærings-, regional- og utdanningspolitiske begrunnelser, innenfor Forskningsrådets BRO-program (Program for brobygging mellom næringsliv og forskning). Prosjektet skal bidra til å utvikle langsiktige relasjoner mellom små og mellomstore bedrifter og FoU-miljøer, i praksis høgskolene i regionene. Tiltakets virkemiddel er å knytte kandidater med høyere utdanning til ettårige utviklingsprosjekter i bedriftene, som tilbys en kompetansepakke med bl.a. veiledning fra høgskoleansatte. Prosjektperioden er 1997-2001, og denne midtveisevalueringen er hovedsakelig basert på en studie av tre av regionene i SMB-K. Evalueringen har en institusjonell tilnærming, der deltakerne forstås som innvevd i ulike institusjonelle felt, der det er utviklet relativt permanente oppfatninger, handlingsmønstre og normer som er knyttet til viktige strukturer ved de ulike feltene og til de rollene som aktørene innenfor feltene tradisjonelt utøver. Om SMB-K skal være et effektivt tiltak, kreves det både innsikt i og evne til å handle i forhold til de normene og handlingsmønstrene som hersker i relasjonen mellom høgskoler og SMB. Det tar tid å endre tunge institusjonelle strukturer. Evalueringen peker på en del problemer ved SMB-K, men også på at tiltaket har satt i gang positive prosesser og at det har utviklingspotensiale. Evalueringen viser også at det er åpenhet for tiltaket i høgskolene, at bedriftsledere ønsker samarbeid med høgskolene, og at utviklingsprosjektene framskynder innovasjonsprosesser i bedriftene.
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Bjarnar, Ove & Husby, Solveig
(1999).
På tokt mellom tradisjon og marked : sjøoffiserer i Møre og Romsdal : kompetanse, yrkesmobilitet og bofasthet.
Møreforsking Molde.
ISSN 82-7830-032-1.
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Bjarnar, Ove
(1998).
"Forskoleundersøkelsen" : om militærnekternes holdning til undervisning og opplæring i siviltjenesten.
Møreforsking Molde.
ISSN 0803-9259.
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Berge, Dag Magne & Bjarnar, Ove
(1998).
Norsk fiskeoppdretts regionale industrialisering : strukturendringer, ledelse og kompetanse i norsk havbruk på 1990-tallet.
Møreforsking Molde.
ISSN 82-7830-028-3.
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Gammelsæter, Hallgeir & Bjarnar, Ove
(1997).
Kunnskapsflyt mellom akademia og regionalt næringsliv : fra retorikk til realitet.
Høgskolen i Molde.
ISSN 82-90347-63-4.
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Bjarnar, Ove
(1995).
"Academic drift" and the market : some historical institutional perspectives on the growth of private higher education in the region of Møre & Romsdal (1970-1986).
Møreforsking Molde.
ISSN 82-7830-004-6.
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Bjarnar, Ove & Gammelsæter, Hallgeir
(1995).
Næringslivslederes utdanning og eierposisjon : en historisk undersøkelse fra Møre og Romsdal.
Møreforsking Molde.
ISSN 82-7830-000-3.