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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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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
    Academic article
  • Afewerki, Samson. (2025) Business models for electrification of Service Operation Vessels: Enabling decarbonized offshore wind maritime operations. NORCE Research AS NORCE Research AS
    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 NORCE Research AS
    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 FME NTRANS
    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 NTNU
    Doctoral dissertation

2019

  • Hanson, Jens; Normann, Håkon Endresen; Aspelund, Arild; Steen, Markus; Afewerki, Samson; Bjørgum, Øyvind. (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) Centre for sustainable energy studies (CenSES)
    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 NTNU
    Masters thesis

Journal publications

  • 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
    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Afewerki, Samson. (2019) Firm agency and global production network dynamics. European Planning Studies
    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

Report

  • Afewerki, Samson. (2025) Business models for electrification of Service Operation Vessels: Enabling decarbonized offshore wind maritime operations. NORCE Research AS NORCE Research AS
    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 NORCE Research AS
    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 FME NTRANS
    Report
  • Afewerki, Samson. (2020) GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORKS AND INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING: Unpacking the emerging Offshore Wind Industry. NTNU NTNU
    Doctoral dissertation
  • Hanson, Jens; Normann, Håkon Endresen; Aspelund, Arild; Steen, Markus; Afewerki, Samson; Bjørgum, Øyvind. (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) Centre for sustainable energy studies (CenSES)
    Report
  • Afewerki, Samson. (2015) Immigrant entrepreneurship : towards the realization of immigrants' entrepreneurial performance and success in Norway. NTNU NTNU
    Masters thesis

Outreach

2024

  • Academic 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 , Stavanger 2024-12-05 - 2024-12-05

2023

  • Lecture
    Afewerki, Samson. (2023) Transnational Perspectives of the Energy Transition. NORCE H&S division seminar , Stavanger 2023-11-23 - 2023-11-23

2022

  • Academic lecture
    Sønvisen, Signe Annie; Thorvaldsen, Trine; Olsen, Marit Schei; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Misund, Andreas Ugelvik. (2022) Aquaculture technology and governance - Going down rabbit holes. Aquaculture Europe , Rimini 2022-09-27 - 2022-09-30
  • Poster
    Afewerki, Samson; Asche, Frank; Misund, Bård; Thorvaldsen, Trine; Tveterås, Ragnar. (2022) Innovation in the Norwegian aquaculture industry. EAS 2022 , Rimini 2022-09-27 - 2022-09-30
  • Poster
    Thorvaldsen, Trine; Føre, Heidi Moe; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Misund, Andreas Ugelvik; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Afewerki, Samson. (2022) A cross regional study of drivers for innovation in aquaculture. EAS 2022 , Rimini Italy 2022-09-27 - 2022-09-30
  • Academic 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 , Dublin 2022-06-07 - 2022-06-07
  • Academic 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 , Oldenburg 2022-09-21 - 2022-09-22
  • Academic 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 , San Diego 2022-02-28 - 2022-03-04

2021

  • Academic 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 , E-festival 2021-06-02 - 2021-06-18

2020

  • Academic 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 , NTNU 2020-11-10 - 2020-11-10

2019

  • Academic 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 , Trondheim 2019-06-17 - 2019-06-19
  • Academic lecture
    Afewerki, Samson. (2019) From production to innovation networks? New path creation through strategic coupling: towards the role of technological innovation networks. NGM 2019 , Trondheim 2019-06-16 - 2019-06-19
  • Academic lecture
    Afewerki, Samson. (2019) Firm agency and GPN dynamics. AAG Conference, Washington, DC 2019-04-03 - 2019-04-07
  • Lecture
    Afewerki, Samson; Dodge, Alexander S.; Karlsen, Asbjørn; Lund, Henrik Brynthe. (2019) Extra-regional dynamics, innovation, and Development (Paper Session). NGM 2019 , Trondheim 2019-06-16 - 2019-06-19
  • Lecture
    Afewerki, Samson. (2019) GPN and Regional Development: Strategic coupling | Upgrading. GEOG3101 - Innovation and Regional Development (MSc Course) , Trondheim 2019-04-25 - 2019-04-25

2018

  • Academic 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) , Trondheim 2018-09-07 - 2018-09-07

2017

  • Academic 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 , Boston 2017-04-05 - 2017-04-09
  • 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 , Singapore 2017-12-06 - 2017-12-09

2016

  • Lecture
    Afewerki, Samson. (2016) Ethnic and transnational entrepreneurship. GEOG3100 - Social Perspectives on Entrepreneurship (MSc course) , Trondheim 2016-05-02 - 2019-05-16

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