James Karlsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5917958 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Karlsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Karlsen |
| SIGNATURE | KARLSEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Agder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1734-944X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Students’ Quality Circles
Bibliography: Karlsen, James: Students’ Quality Circles: QC Circles Re-engineered for Developing Student Personality. Dinesh P. Chapagain (2022), IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, Vol. 18, Issue 3-2022, pp. 293-294. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i3.07 ----- Open Access License: This contribution is available in Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0 (Attribution 4.0 International) as of January 24, 2023. More in…
Think tanks for a new generation of regional innovation policies
Regional innovation policy, and related research, are being pressurized to transform by today’s grand societal challenges. Our paper acknowledges the efforts of authors in this field to address this pressure and addresses how new emergent framings of innovation policy can be operationalized in practice. We explore how co-generative research can help achieve this and share the case of a think tank in the Basque Country (Spain) which we describe as…
Outsiders or Leaders? The Role of Higher Education Institutions in the Development of Peripheral Regions
Regional Development
Universities’ Third Mission
Moving context from the background to the forefront of policy learning
The article focuses on policy learning processes with the aim of sharing knowledge about how policy learning happens. In doing this, it considers conflict as a natural process in policy learning and proposes action research as a possible strategy to address it. By reflecting on a long-term action research process in the province of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain), the article proposes a change of focus in assessing the role of context. If we ass…
Strategic agency and institutional change
Past analyses rooted in thick description of regions successful in constructing regional innovation systems have given way to analyses more focused on the intentionality in these processes, and how actors in regions with their own wider networks can shape these high-level changes in regional fortunes. As part of this, place-based leadership has emerged as a promising concept to restore both agency and territory to these discussions but it remains…
Emergence of shared leadership in the Basque Country
In a workshop with networkers from different development agencies in the Basque Country, an exercise on shared history was performed as an introduction to a seminar on the role of local policy networks in the development of the region. The participants were asked to pinpoint critical events of the past that would be of assistance in understanding their current efforts to create or develop such networks. Most of them spoke of thwarted attempts to …
Can small regions construct regional advantages? The case of four Norwegian regions
The conceptual framework of constructing regional advantage (CRA) is implicitly relevant for large, well-off regions that have strong regional innovation systems, a diversity of industrial sectors and resourceful firms that can partake in global knowledge networks. This paper discusses the extent to which small regions, with less developed regional innovation systems, may also constitute the basis for developing regional advantage. Four cases of …
The contradictory nature of knowledge
When regional development becomes an institutional responsibility for universities
The Agder story
Strategic agency and institutional change
Past analyses rooted in thick description of regions successful in constructing regional innovation systems have given way to analyses more focused on the intentionality in these processes, and how actors in regions with their own wider networks can shape these high-level changes in regional fortunes. As part of this, place-based leadership has emerged as a promising concept to restore both agency and territory to these discussions but it remains…
Can small regions construct regional advantages? The case of four Norwegian regions
The conceptual framework of constructing regional advantage (CRA) is implicitly relevant for large, well-off regions that have strong regional innovation systems, a diversity of industrial sectors and resourceful firms that can partake in global knowledge networks. This paper discusses the extent to which small regions, with less developed regional innovation systems, may also constitute the basis for developing regional advantage. Four cases of …
Moving context from the background to the forefront of policy learning
The article focuses on policy learning processes with the aim of sharing knowledge about how policy learning happens. In doing this, it considers conflict as a natural process in policy learning and proposes action research as a possible strategy to address it. By reflecting on a long-term action research process in the province of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain), the article proposes a change of focus in assessing the role of context. If we ass…
Universities’ Third Mission
Outsiders or Leaders? The Role of Higher Education Institutions in the Development of Peripheral Regions
Regional Development
When regional development becomes an institutional responsibility for universities
The Agder story
The contradictory nature of knowledge
Emergence of shared leadership in the Basque Country
In a workshop with networkers from different development agencies in the Basque Country, an exercise on shared history was performed as an introduction to a seminar on the role of local policy networks in the development of the region. The participants were asked to pinpoint critical events of the past that would be of assistance in understanding their current efforts to create or develop such networks. Most of them spoke of thwarted attempts to …
Can small regions construct regional advantages? The case of four Norwegian regions
The conceptual framework of constructing regional advantage (CRA) is implicitly relevant for large, well-off regions that have strong regional innovation systems, a diversity of industrial sectors and resourceful firms that can partake in global knowledge networks. This paper discusses the extent to which small regions, with less developed regional innovation systems, may also constitute the basis for developing regional advantage. Four cases of …
Moving context from the background to the forefront of policy learning
The article focuses on policy learning processes with the aim of sharing knowledge about how policy learning happens. In doing this, it considers conflict as a natural process in policy learning and proposes action research as a possible strategy to address it. By reflecting on a long-term action research process in the province of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain), the article proposes a change of focus in assessing the role of context. If we ass…
Strategic agency and institutional change
Past analyses rooted in thick description of regions successful in constructing regional innovation systems have given way to analyses more focused on the intentionality in these processes, and how actors in regions with their own wider networks can shape these high-level changes in regional fortunes. As part of this, place-based leadership has emerged as a promising concept to restore both agency and territory to these discussions but it remains…
Outsiders or Leaders? The Role of Higher Education Institutions in the Development of Peripheral Regions
Regional Development
Universities’ Third Mission
Think tanks for a new generation of regional innovation policies
Regional innovation policy, and related research, are being pressurized to transform by today’s grand societal challenges. Our paper acknowledges the efforts of authors in this field to address this pressure and addresses how new emergent framings of innovation policy can be operationalized in practice. We explore how co-generative research can help achieve this and share the case of a think tank in the Basque Country (Spain) which we describe as…
Students’ Quality Circles
Bibliography: Karlsen, James: Students’ Quality Circles: QC Circles Re-engineered for Developing Student Personality. Dinesh P. Chapagain (2022), IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, Vol. 18, Issue 3-2022, pp. 293-294. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i3.07 ----- Open Access License: This contribution is available in Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0 (Attribution 4.0 International) as of January 24, 2023. More in…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Knowledge management (4 works) · Regional Development and Policy (4 works) · Regional science (4 works) · Business (3 works)