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- Lindh, Magnus, et al.
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Fusing Regions? Sustainable Nordic Regional Governance in the Context of European Integration
- 2007
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This breifing paper outlined the research questions and design associated with the study of Regional Action and European integration using fusion techniques. The paper draws upon some of the initial ideas developed for the successful Fusing Regions? project being funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers' research programme in 2007-2008
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- Lödén, Hans, et al.
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Fusing Regions? : Investigating Sustainable Regional Action in Nordic Regions
- 2009
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The paper introduces the concept of regional action and then investigates the propensity for such regional action undertaken by policy-makers in three specific regions in Finland, Sweden and Norway. The paper focuses on the changing roles of regional networks and the implications for them as boundaries become blurred, the paper contends that the activities of regional policy-makers need to be understood through an appreciation that European integration is contributing to the transformation of regions and the blurring (or fusing) of regional competencies. There is therefore, in our view, an urgent need to focus research specifically upon how Nordic regional policy-makers act towards the European Union, and in what degrees and forms, regional action is sustainable at the functional level.The research project is funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers as part of the Internationalisation of Regional Development Policies Needs and Demands in the Nordic countries research programme, and are a comparative study that focuses upon: (i) the behaviour, strategies and levels of action and interaction of regional actors in EU structures and (ii) the attitudes of regional actors towards interacting with the EU. The study concentrates on regional actors behaviour and attitudes in a variety of policy fields that is affected by EU.This paper represents a part in the final phase of this project, which has a deadline for the final report in May, 2009, and are founded on an earlier paper, Regional Action and the European Union: A Fusion Approach, presented by the authors at the NISA conference in Odense (May 2007) and at the Performing Regions/Regional Performance: Regions and Regionalism in and Beyond Europe conference at Lancaster University (September 2007).Methodological issues are not discussed in this paper; instead it focuses on the design of the study and the relation between the core concepts. Finally, we initiate a discussion on how to make policy recommendations as a result of a theoretically informed empirical study.
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- Lödén, Hans, et al.
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The Swedish Left and European Integration
- 2008
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The paper applies a three dimensional (normative, institutional, and policy) evaluation to the policy orientations of the three primary parties of the Swedish Left - the Social Democratic Party, the Left Party and the Green Party - towards the debates on the 2004 Constitutional Treaty and the 2007 Lisbon Reform Treaty. The authors argue that the development of a common pro-EU membership position among all three parties of the Swedish Left is still some way off. The paper forms the basis of a chapter to be published by Manchester University Press in a volume in 2009/10
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- Lödén, Hans, et al.
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The Swedish Left and European Integration: Linking Laval and Lisbon
- 2008
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Conference paper (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- This paper (co-authored with Hans Loden) evaluates the policy positions of the three primary parties of the Swedish Left - the Social Democratic Party, the Left Party and the Greens - towards the 2004 Constitutional Treaty and 2007 Lisbon Treaty. The paper argues that the policy discourses and policy positions of the Swedish Left reflect an attempt to link discussions emanating from the Laval case with the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in Sweden during 2008. The paper was given at an international workshop funded by the London office of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation, that brought together leading experts to present evaluations covering 12 different European countries. The paper is based on a chapter to be published in an edited volume by Manchester University Press in 2009/10
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- Miles, Lee
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A Fusing Europe in a Confusing World?
- 2006
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Conference paper (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Lee Miles gave the opening Keynote Lecture in a dedicated and specially commissioned public lecture series held at Vaxjo University during 2006. The Keynote Lecture went on to form the basis of a book chapter published in 2007
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- Miles, Lee
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Active Clusters and Clustered Activity: Key to Innovation Partnerships?
- 2010
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This presentation, given at a Research Workshop as part a EU Framework 7 funded Capacities Project on 'Sharing Innovative Practices in University Modernization', directed by the European University Association (EUA) in Brussels, examines the complex relationship between University's involvement in innovation and regional growth and the development of innovation clusters that bring together business interests. The presentation, that gives evidence to a final FP7 funded report to be delivered to the European Commission's DG for Research, examines the case of Sweden and particularly the interaction between regional clusters and actors in Värmland and Karlstad University, which is regarded as a leading innovator in the Swedish higher education setting on questions of innovative practices
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