Author: Urban Lindgren

Urban is a Professor in Human Geography and researches the interaction between competitiveness of businesses and the dynamics of local labour markets. Focus is on how a long-term competitiveness, assumed to spring from learning skills, can be converted into better products. Innovations often arise when people of different experiences interact. The acquired tacit knowledge is inextricably linked to the individual and interact more easily with others knowledge in limited geographical environments.

Complementary manpower most important for rural areas

Focus political labor-market measures on the availability of complementary manpower in rural areas to give fast-growing companies better chances of survival. Fast-growing companies are an important resource for creating job opportunities in rural regions. They can be found in all…

There is not a countryside, there are many

There is a prevailing view of the countryside that is generalized, and at times dark, as areas that exist merely for the cities and seldom as areas with their own innate value. Such a view causes one to miss the…

Vital companies in rural areas

Today’s economy, which is based on the access to the right manpower and the spread of knowledge, has fundamentally changed the conditions for economic development in sparsely populated areas. However, despite a concentration of markets in urban areas, there are…

Forest helps micro-firms to survive

Owning forest as an entrepreneur could increase the firms’ possibility to survive in a harsh economic environment. However, the effect is only visible for men and is more vivid in rural areas. 60 000 new firms are started in Sweden…

Author: Urban Lindgren

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Complementary manpower most important for rural areas

There is not a countryside, there are many

Vital companies in rural areas

Forest helps micro-firms to survive

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