Institutional work in the maintenance of regional innovation policy instruments: evidence from Wales

Henderson, Dylan

doi:10.1080/00343404.2019.1634251

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“…The establishment of an ITI system is inseparable from the guidance and assistance of the government. Besides providing tax and financial assistance to companies in the ITI system, the government will also adopt policies such as talent introduction [ 55 ]. Because ITI is generally derived from national scientific and technological research, it has obvious policy orientation [ 56 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Leveraging industrial-technological innovation to achieve sustainable development: A systems thinking perspective

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Industrial-technological innovation (ITI) has become an important requirement for the sustainable development of China. ITI development requires a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic complexity associated with ITI systems. Previous research into ITI systems is based primarily on static methods that isolate system components, and ignore feedback on adjustments made. Based on systems thinking, this paper develop six archetypes (“Limit to Growth,” “Success to the Successful,” “Tragedy of the Commons,” “Fixes that Fail,” “Accidental Adversaries,” and “Shifting the Burden”) and an ITI system integration model. The model visualizes the ITI system as a whole and identifies bottlenecks that may affect ITI development. This conceptual model provides a more effective method of judgment, which can better explain the operational mechanism of the ITI system and improve the system’s operational characteristics. Finally, we evaluate the ITI system and propose that self-organization is a key lever of a systemic intervention framework for ITI.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Leveraging industrial-technological innovation to achieve sustainable development: A systems thinking perspective

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“…For example, what motivates agents to induce peculiar industrial and institutional changes? Further, while the present article's focus was on how industrial and institutional change drive coevolution, it will be important to extend the perspective towards maintenance agency by agents working against change (Henderson, 2020;Jolly et al, 2020) or reproductive agency (Baekkelund, 2021;Grillitsch & Sotarauta, 2020;Streeck & Thelen, 2005) within the forms of institutional work aimed at maintaining institutions (Lawrence et al, 2009;Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006; see also Scott, 2014) that could play a significant role in path development. For example, how does the maintenance (as opposed to change) of institutions affect coevolution on either scale?…”

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“…3 Path extension is likely to ensue in the absence of radical change. While the industrial population is marked by incremental adaptations to slightly changing market conditions and technologies among firms (Grillitsch et al, 2018;Isaksen, 2015;Isaksen et al, 2019) and further, probably moderate, growth of existing clusters, the institutional population relies on the reproduction and maintenance of existing institutions (Baekkelund, 2021;Jolly et al, 2020;Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006) and careful adaptation of institutions to changing contexts, policies, or legislation (Henderson, 2020), including through conversion (Streeck & Thelen, 2005).…”

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Retheorizing industrial–institutional coevolution: a multidimensional perspective

Benner

2021

Regional Studies

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Evolutionary economic geography has sought to understand the development of regional industrial pathways but tended to neglect both the multiscalarity of economic development and the role of institutional change. The concept of coevolution seeks to bridge this gap but is still too vague for empirical application. Understanding the interactions between path development and institutional change in regional economies and on higher spatial scales requires retheorizing coevolution along the dimensions of institutional-industrial coevolution, path multiplicity and multiscalarity. The article proposes such a retheorized concept of coevolution by integrating concepts of path development, institutions, institutional change, institutional entrepreneurship, institutional work and nestedness.

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“…In this context, it deems important to consider not only change agency but also maintenance or reproductive agency, i.e. agency that is oriented towards securing the persistence of existing structures, thus countering pressures for change (Henderson 2020;Jolly, Grillitsch, and Hansen 2020). However, the latter form of agency may not only have a dark side by being a source of failure of challenge-oriented innovation.…”

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New directions for RIS studies and policies in the face of grand societal challenges

Tödtling

Trippl

Desch

2021

European Planning Studies

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The regional innovation system (RIS) approach has become a widely used framework for examining the dynamics of innovation across space and for crafting policies to promote the innovation capacity of regions. The dominant focus has been on technological and business innovation enhancing competitiveness and economic growth. In light of persistent environmental and social challenges such as climate change, aging and growing inequalities, this understanding appears to be too narrow. We argue that the RIS approach requires a critical reassessment for informing the next generation of regional innovation policies. We explore how RIS scholarship and policies could benefit from an alternative understanding of the innovation process. Inspired by recent work on mission-oriented and transformative innovation policies, we develop the notion of 'challenge-oriented RISs' (CoRISs). In contrast to conventional understandings of RISs, this approach embraces a more critical view of innovation, captures the directionality of change, opens up to new innovation actors at different territorial scales and pays more attention to the application side and upscaling of innovation within the region and beyond. Acknowledging that regions vary in their capacity for transformative change and challenge-oriented innovation, the article outlines new directions for place-based innovation policies.

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Institutional work in the maintenance of regional innovation policy instruments: evidence from Wales

Cited by 18 publications

References 48 publications

Leveraging industrial-technological innovation to achieve sustainable development: A systems thinking perspective

Leveraging industrial-technological innovation to achieve sustainable development: A systems thinking perspective

Retheorizing industrial–institutional coevolution: a multidimensional perspective

New directions for RIS studies and policies in the face of grand societal challenges

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