Titel
Towards a stage model of regional industrial path transformation
Autor*in
Johan Miörner
Environmental Social Sciences, Eawag - Swiss Federal, Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Abstract
The recent debate on innovation-based structural change in Evolutionary Economic Geography is characterised by a strong focus on the rise of new industrial paths. This paper seeks to shift attention and cast light on radical innovation activities occurring within existing paths without necessarily leading to their dissolution. Departing from a systemic perspective of path development we propose a stage model of path transformation. We outline how radical change becomes initiated, reinforced and finally consolidated in established industrial paths. Particular attention is devoted to the ways in which actors – influenced by ‘the past’ and driven by visions and expectations (that is, ‘the future’) – exert agency to stimulate asset modification processes that are assumed to underpin path transformation and the reconfiguration of the wider support structures. The framework is applied to the analysis of the automotive industry in West Sweden, which is currently transforming towards the development of self-driving cars.
Stichwort
Path transformationevolutionary economic geographystage modelassetsagency
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1201094
Erschienen in
Titel
Industry and Innovation
Band
28
Ausgabe
2
ISSN
1366-2716
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Seitenanfang
160
Seitenende
181
Publication
Informa UK Limited
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Zugänglichkeit
Rechteangabe
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