Entrepreneurial renewal in a peripheral region : the case of a winter automotive-testing cluster in Sweden

摘要: This research paper generates new insights into renewal processes that may occur in peripheral regions. Key findings are presented from an explorative study on a regionally clustered automotive-testing industry, located northern Sweden. The suggest despite theoretically unfavourable conditions it is possible to progress regional industry after setting's socio-economic relapses. Moreover, this shows how, notwithstanding the importance of profitable service offerings, entrepreneurial environment can be encouraged within region and subsequent achieved by advancing local networks, improving internationalization enhancing infrastructures related service-based industry. Consequently offers us glimpse pioneering case which, essence, differs previously reported entrepreneurship scholarship.