Search for dissertations about: "creative regions"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words creative regions.

  2. 1. The Wealth of Urban Regions : On the Location of Creative Individuals and Firms

    Author : Charlotta Mellander; Charlie Karlsson; Börje Johansson; Maryann Feldman; Jönköping University; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This doctoral thesis consists of four individual chapters and an introduction to the thesis. The common feature of the four separate chapters is their focus on the location patterns of creative individuals and firms, the inter-relation between those actors and the regional development and how those actors in the end shape the wealth of urban regions. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Urban Turn : And the Location of economic Activities

    Author : Høgni Kalsø Hansen; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Urban Turn; Innovation; Business Climate; People Climate; Human Capital; Outer City; Creative Class; Talent; Regional Development; City Regions;

    Abstract : Competitiveness of city regions has gained a more and more central position in regional development and regional planning within the last decades. A reason for this is that globalisation has caused pressure on industrial structures forcing firms to increase their competitiveness by more actively promoting innovation and knowledge creation. READ MORE

  5. 3. Knowledge flows across space and firms

    Author : Lina Bjerke; Charlie Karlsson; Alessandra Faggian; Jönköping University; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This dissertation consists of four separate papers and an introductory chapter. The four papers can be read independently of each other but are held together by concepts around embodied knowledge: knowledge embodied in products and embodied knowledge flows. READ MORE

  6. 4. Generative learning management : A dual-role model for creativity in organizations

    Author : Peter Österberg; Institutionen för psykologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Generative learning management; leadership style; goal-setting; decentralization; creativity;

    Abstract : A main purpose of this thesis was to develop a model of leadership style named Generative Learning Management (GLM), thought to influence goal-oriented interpersonal creativity in organizations, and to test this model. Creativity is a complex consisting of both novelty and usefulness and it is a general mental ability that is determined by the interplay between different regions in a normally functioning human brain. READ MORE

  7. 5. Biological mechanisms in creativity and flow

    Author : Örjan De Manzano; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : What would the world and our lives look like, if creativity had not evolved? Defined as the ability to have ideas and produce artifacts that are at the same time novel and meaningful, creativity is arguably one of the faculties that has given the human species adaptive ability beyond any other organism. The goal of this thesis was to elucidate some of the biological mechanisms that enable creative thinking. READ MORE