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Samson Afewerki Tella

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Samson Afewerki Tella

Sr. Researcher
Department of Geography and Social Anthropology

samson.afewerki@ntnu.no
Publications Outreach

Publications

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  • All publications registered in NVA

2026

  • Afewerki, Samson; Deegan, Jason; Blomgren, Atle; Asheim, Bjørn Terje; Haus-Reve, Silje; Concha, Ursula Alejandra Landazuri. (2026) Oil and gas incumbents' green diversification: Balancing short-term returns with long-term energy transition imperatives?. Energy Research & Social Science
    Academic article
  • Afewerki, Samson; Asche, Frank; Blomgren, Atle; Harstad, Anne Marthe; Concha, Ursula Alejandra Landazuri; Misund, Bård; Tveterås, Ragnar; Straume, Hans-Martin. (2026) The dynamics of an industry cluster: Salmon aquaculture in Rogaland, Norway. Aquaculture
    Academic article

2025

  • Deegan, Jason; Asheim, Bjørn Terje; Haus-Reve, Silje; Afewerki, Samson; Blomgren, Atle; Concha, Ursula Alejandra Landazuri. (2025) The oil and gas industry – a key to a successful, sustainable transition in Norway? Barriers and challenges to knowledge transfer to offshore wind and aquaculture. ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography
    Academic article
  • Afewerki, Samson; Olsen, Marit Schei; Osmundsen, Tonje; Størkersen, Kristine; Misund, Andreas; Thorvaldsen, Trine. (2025) Reconfiguring innovation systems for sustainable sectoral transformation: The case of the Norwegian aquaculture industry. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society
    Academic article
  • Afewerki, Samson; Blomgren, Atle. (2025) Industry development in the absence of a home market: A semi-systemic review of the drivers for offshore wind industry development in Norway. Social Sciences & Humanities Open (SSHO)
    Academic article
  • Afewerki, Samson. (2025) Business models for electrification of Service Operation Vessels: Enabling decarbonized offshore wind maritime operations. NORCE Research AS
    Research report

2024

  • Afewerki, Samson. (2024) Energy transition, critical raw materials, & climate justice: A high-level assessment of Norwegian deep-sea mining as an 'x-shoring' strategy and a research agenda. NORCE Research AS
    Research report

2023

  • Tella, Samson Afewerki; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Olsen, Marit Schei; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Misund, Andreas Ugelvik; Thorvaldsen, Trine. (2023) Innovation policy in the Norwegian aquaculture industry: Reshaping aquaculture production innovation networks. Marine Policy
    Academic article
  • Jolly, Suyash; Steen, Markus; Hansen, Teis; Afewerki, Samson. (2023) Renewable energy and industrial development in pioneering and lagging regions: the offshore wind industry in southern Denmark and Normandy. Oxford Open Energy
    Academic article
  • Afewerki, Samson; Asche, Frank; Misund, Bård; Thorvaldsen, Trine; Tveterås, Ragnar. (2023) Innovation in the Norwegian aquaculture industry. Reviews in Aquaculture
    Academic literature review

2022

  • Afewerki, Samson; Steen, Markus. (2022) Gaining lead firm position in an emerging industry: A global production networks analysis of two Scandinavian energy firms in offshore wind power. Competition & Change
    Academic article
  • Afewerki, Samson; Steen, Markus. (2022) Gaining a lead firm position in an emerging project-based industry: A GPN analysis of two Scandinavian energy firms in offshore wind power. FME NTRANS
    Research report
  • MacKinnon, Danny; Afewerki, Samson; Karlsen, Asbjørn. (2022) Technology legitimation and strategic coupling: A cross-national study of floating wind power in Norway and Scotland. Geoforum
    Academic article

2021

  • Afewerki, Samson; Karlsen, Asbjørn. (2021) Policy mixes for just sustainable development in regions specialized in carbon-intensive industries: the case of two Norwegian petro-maritime regions. European Planning Studies
    Academic article
  • MacKinnon, Danny; Karlsen, Asbjørn; Dawley, Stuart; Steen, Markus; Afewerki, Samson; Kenzhegaliyeva, Assiya. (2021) Legitimation, institutions and regional path creation: a cross-national study of offshore wind. Regional studies
    Academic article

2020

  • Afewerki, Samson. (2020) GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORKS AND INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING: Unpacking the emerging Offshore Wind Industry. NTNU
    Doctoral thesis

2019

  • Hanson, Jens; Normann, Håkon Endresen; Aspelund, Arild; Steen, Markus; Afewerki, Samson; Bjørgum, Øyvind; Sæther, Erik Andreas; Kenzhegaliyeva, Assiya; Dawley, Stuart; MacKinnon, Danny. (2019) Conditions for growth in the Norwegian offshore wind industry. International market developments, Norwegian firm characteristics and strategies, and policies for industry development. Centre for sustainable energy studies (CenSES)
    Research report
  • Afewerki, Samson. (2019) Firm agency and global production network dynamics. European Planning Studies
    Academic article

2018

  • Afewerki, Samson; Karlsen, Asbjørn; MacKinnon, Danny. (2018) Configuring floating production networks: A case study of a new offshore wind technology across two oil and gas economies. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift
    Academic article

2015

  • Afewerki, Samson. (2015) Immigrant entrepreneurship : towards the realization of immigrants' entrepreneurial performance and success in Norway. NTNU
    Master thesis

Journal publications

  • Afewerki, Samson; Deegan, Jason; Blomgren, Atle; Asheim, Bjørn Terje; Haus-Reve, Silje; Concha, Ursula Alejandra Landazuri. (2026) Oil and gas incumbents' green diversification: Balancing short-term returns with long-term energy transition imperatives?. Energy Research & Social Science
    Academic article
  • Afewerki, Samson; Asche, Frank; Blomgren, Atle; Harstad, Anne Marthe; Concha, Ursula Alejandra Landazuri; Misund, Bård; Tveterås, Ragnar; Straume, Hans-Martin. (2026) The dynamics of an industry cluster: Salmon aquaculture in Rogaland, Norway. Aquaculture
    Academic article
  • Deegan, Jason; Asheim, Bjørn Terje; Haus-Reve, Silje; Afewerki, Samson; Blomgren, Atle; Concha, Ursula Alejandra Landazuri. (2025) The oil and gas industry – a key to a successful, sustainable transition in Norway? Barriers and challenges to knowledge transfer to offshore wind and aquaculture. ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography
    Academic article
  • Tella, Samson Afewerki; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Olsen, Marit Schei; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Misund, Andreas Ugelvik; Thorvaldsen, Trine. (2023) Innovation policy in the Norwegian aquaculture industry: Reshaping aquaculture production innovation networks. Marine Policy
    Academic article
  • Afewerki, Samson; Olsen, Marit Schei; Osmundsen, Tonje; Størkersen, Kristine; Misund, Andreas; Thorvaldsen, Trine. (2025) Reconfiguring innovation systems for sustainable sectoral transformation: The case of the Norwegian aquaculture industry. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society
    Academic article
  • Jolly, Suyash; Steen, Markus; Hansen, Teis; Afewerki, Samson. (2023) Renewable energy and industrial development in pioneering and lagging regions: the offshore wind industry in southern Denmark and Normandy. Oxford Open Energy
    Academic article
  • Afewerki, Samson; Karlsen, Asbjørn. (2021) Policy mixes for just sustainable development in regions specialized in carbon-intensive industries: the case of two Norwegian petro-maritime regions. European Planning Studies
    Academic article
  • Afewerki, Samson; Asche, Frank; Misund, Bård; Thorvaldsen, Trine; Tveterås, Ragnar. (2023) Innovation in the Norwegian aquaculture industry. Reviews in Aquaculture
    Academic literature review
  • Afewerki, Samson; Blomgren, Atle. (2025) Industry development in the absence of a home market: A semi-systemic review of the drivers for offshore wind industry development in Norway. Social Sciences & Humanities Open (SSHO)
    Academic article
  • Afewerki, Samson; Steen, Markus. (2022) Gaining lead firm position in an emerging industry: A global production networks analysis of two Scandinavian energy firms in offshore wind power. Competition & Change
    Academic article
  • Afewerki, Samson; Karlsen, Asbjørn; MacKinnon, Danny. (2018) Configuring floating production networks: A case study of a new offshore wind technology across two oil and gas economies. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift
    Academic article
  • Afewerki, Samson. (2019) Firm agency and global production network dynamics. European Planning Studies
    Academic article
  • MacKinnon, Danny; Karlsen, Asbjørn; Dawley, Stuart; Steen, Markus; Afewerki, Samson; Kenzhegaliyeva, Assiya. (2021) Legitimation, institutions and regional path creation: a cross-national study of offshore wind. Regional studies
    Academic article
  • MacKinnon, Danny; Afewerki, Samson; Karlsen, Asbjørn. (2022) Technology legitimation and strategic coupling: A cross-national study of floating wind power in Norway and Scotland. Geoforum
    Academic article

Report

  • Afewerki, Samson. (2024) Energy transition, critical raw materials, & climate justice: A high-level assessment of Norwegian deep-sea mining as an 'x-shoring' strategy and a research agenda. NORCE Research AS
    Research report
  • Afewerki, Samson; Steen, Markus. (2022) Gaining a lead firm position in an emerging project-based industry: A GPN analysis of two Scandinavian energy firms in offshore wind power. FME NTRANS
    Research report
  • Hanson, Jens; Normann, Håkon Endresen; Aspelund, Arild; Steen, Markus; Afewerki, Samson; Bjørgum, Øyvind; Sæther, Erik Andreas; Kenzhegaliyeva, Assiya; Dawley, Stuart; MacKinnon, Danny. (2019) Conditions for growth in the Norwegian offshore wind industry. International market developments, Norwegian firm characteristics and strategies, and policies for industry development. Centre for sustainable energy studies (CenSES)
    Research report
  • Afewerki, Samson. (2025) Business models for electrification of Service Operation Vessels: Enabling decarbonized offshore wind maritime operations. NORCE Research AS
    Research report

Student thesis or dissertation

  • Afewerki, Samson. (2020) GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORKS AND INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING: Unpacking the emerging Offshore Wind Industry. NTNU
    Doctoral thesis
  • Afewerki, Samson. (2015) Immigrant entrepreneurship : towards the realization of immigrants' entrepreneurial performance and success in Norway. NTNU
    Master thesis

Outreach

2024

  • Conference lecture
    Afewerki, Samson. (2024) Energy transition, critical raw materials, & climate justice: A high-level assessment of Norwegian deep-sea mining as an 'x-shoring' strategy and a research agenda. KOS Climate and energy-justice

2023

  • Lecture
    Afewerki, Samson. (2023) Transnational Perspectives of the Energy Transition. NORCE H&S division seminar

2022

  • Conference lecture
    Sønvisen, Signe Annie; Thorvaldsen, Trine; Olsen, Marit Schei; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Misund, Andreas Ugelvik; Afewerki, Samson. (2022) Aquaculture technology and governance - Going down rabbit holes. Aquaculture Europe
  • Conference poster
    Afewerki, Samson; Asche, Frank; Misund, Bård; Thorvaldsen, Trine; Tveterås, Ragnar. (2022) Innovation in the Norwegian aquaculture industry. EAS 2022
  • Conference poster
    Thorvaldsen, Trine; Føre, Heidi Moe; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Misund, Andreas Ugelvik; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Afewerki, Samson; Tveterås, Ragnar; Sønvisen, Signe Annie; Lader, Pål Furset. (2022) A cross regional study of drivers for innovation in aquaculture. EAS 2022
  • Conference lecture
    Karlsen, Asbjørn; MacKinnon, Danny; Afewerki, Samson. (2022) Technology legitimation and strategic coupling: a cross-national study of floating wind in Norway and Scotland. The 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography
  • Conference lecture
    Jolly, Suyash; Steen, Markus; Hansen, Teis; Afewerki, Samson. (2022) Regional industry path development and the role of the contextual environment: offshore wind energy development in South Denmark (Denmark) and Normandy (France). REENEA (Regional Energy Transition) workshop on Breaking down the energy transition: How actors, institutions, and technologies shape transition processes
  • Conference lecture
    Afewerki, Samson; Thorvaldsen, Trine; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Olsen, Marit Schei; Misund, Andreas Ugelvik. (2022) Technology push policy and the Norwegian aquaculture industry: the case of the development licensing scheme. Aquaculture 2022

2021

  • Conference lecture
    Karlsen, Asbjørn; Afewerki, Samson. (2021) Policy mixes for just sustainable development in regions specialized in carbon-intensive industries: the case of two Norwegian petro-maritime regions. Regions in Recovery - Building Sustainable Future, GLobal E-Festival 2nd-18th June 2021

2020

  • Conference lecture
    Karlsen, Asbjørn; Afewerki, Samson. (2020) Policy mixes for just sustainable regional development in industrially overspecialized regions: the case of two Norwegian petro-maritime regions. Team Society

2019

  • Conference lecture
    Karlsen, Asbjørn; MacKinnon, Danny; Dawley, Stuart; Steen, Markus; Afewerki, Samson; Kenzhegaliyeva, Assiya. (2019) Institutional frameworks and firm strategies in offshore wind production networks across UK, Germany and France. 8 th Nordic Geographers Meeting
  • Conference lecture
    Afewerki, Samson. (2019) From production to innovation networks? New path creation through strategic coupling: towards the role of technological innovation networks. NGM 2019
  • Conference lecture
    Afewerki, Samson. (2019) Firm agency and GPN dynamics. AAG Conference, Washington, DC
  • Lecture
    Afewerki, Samson; Dodge, Alexander S.; Karlsen, Asbjørn; Lund, Henrik Brynthe. (2019) Extra-regional dynamics, innovation, and Development (Paper Session). NGM 2019
  • Lecture
    Afewerki, Samson. (2019) GPN and Regional Development: Strategic coupling | Upgrading. GEOG3101 - Innovation and Regional Development (MSc Course)

2018

  • Conference lecture
    Afewerki, Samson. (2018) Global Production Networks 2.0 and the Role of Lead Firms – examples from Offshore Wind. GEOG3518 - Global Production Networks (MSc Course)

2017

  • Conference lecture
    Afewerki, Samson; Karlsen, Asbjørn; MacKinnon, Danny. (2017) Strategic coupling in two regions: comparing inside-out and outside-in modes of incorporation into GPN. AAG Conference
  • Lecture
    Afewerki, Samson; Karlsen, Asbjørn; MacKinnon, Danny. (2017) Floating production networks: A case study of a new offshore wind technology across two oil & gas economies. Conference on Global Production

2016

  • Lecture
    Afewerki, Samson. (2016) Ethnic and transnational entrepreneurship. GEOG3100 - Social Perspectives on Entrepreneurship (MSc course)

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