Place leadership and the challenge of transformation: policy platforms and innovation ecosystems in promotion of green growth

Sotarauta, Markku; Suvinen, Nina

doi:10.1080/09654313.2019.1634006

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“…Earlier, in the context of development programmes, the lead was often taken by the main industrial companies and/or universities. This represents a clear deviation from the earlier local innovation policy approach that was constructed around multi-year and multi-actor development programmes to identify policy platforms on something the city was already doing (for more, see Andersen et al, 2019;Sotarauta and Suvinen, 2019).…”

Section: Green Path Developmentmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…The region and the city have adopted the concepts of circular economy, cleantech and bioeconomy. Both aim to construct policy platforms for the mobilisation of new kinds of ecosystems and thus find novel ways to identify the policy contents as well as to organise interaction and communication between various actors (Sotarauta and Suvinen, 2019). The ambition of using platforms as policy vehicles is to contribute to building value chains, enhancing their quality, introducing innovation and creating additional value.…”

Section: Green Path Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is not only in search of new products but is also constructing a novel ecosystem with other actors around its new bioproduct plant. The bioproduct mill is seen as a platform for other organisations to experiment with and produce their own products (Andersen et al, 2019;Sotarauta and Suvinen, 2019).…”

Section: Green Path Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Opportunities and challenges for future regional development

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Karlsdóttir²,

Refsgaard³

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The Nordic model is about the egalitarian values that has guided it, the universalism in the institutions that underpins it and the democratic as well as research based 'modernization' process that continues to reform it. Starting with the oil-crisis in the 1970s, the model has been under a sort of permanent stress test coming from neoliberalism, globalization, Europeanisation, ageing populations, migration, climate change, and the Great Recession. The model is further challenged by emerging regional divisions of welfare. I argue that that the social investment approach provides an interesting starting point for addressing immediate concerns and long-term challenges and this also is relevant from a regional perspective. It is about combining economic perspectives with social objectives with the aim to promote a socially sustainable development.

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Section: Green Path Developmentmentioning

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Section: Green Path Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Opportunities and challenges for future regional development

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Karlsdóttir²,

Refsgaard³

et al. 2019

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“…Place leaders mobilise powers, resources and competencies for path development (e.g. Rossiter and Smith, 2017;Sotarauta and Suvinen, 2019). Hambleton (2015) contrasts place leadership with placeless leadership, which is indifferent to the impact their action may have on particular places.…”

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The many roles of change agency in the game of green path development in the North

Sotarauta¹,

Suvinen

Jolly

et al. 2020

European Urban and Regional Studies

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The rapidly expanding stream of path development studies recognises that translating observations from past paths to conscious path creation requires conceptually linking agency to path development frameworks. Actors frame issues about and for the future, coordinate their actions in the present and make sense of what may have transpired in the past. The main objective of the paper is to explore the roles that actors play in green path development by answering the following main research questions: (a) Who are the core actors in green path development in the Nordic regions, ie. in industrial development around products, solutions or technologies that make regional economies more sustainable? (b) What are their main roles in relation to other actors? (c) What are the differences and similarities between the regions in terms of agency? The paper explores whether similar actors take on different roles in different regions and whether different actors may assume similar roles. For the empirical analysis, we identified seven roles in change agency. The empirical results showed that institutional entrepreneurship was the core of change agency in conjunction with innovative entrepreneurship and place-based leadership. The other four roles supported path development efforts. The results also show that institutional entrepreneurship is not a solo activity but a collective form of agency and that well-functioning shared institutional entrepreneurship may have a chance to change institutions for green path development.

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“…Such writings have emerged, in part, through a realisation that it is possible to strategically facilitate for regional industrial innovation (see for example , but also that e.g. 'place leaders' need to work proactively with several actors in several fields over multiple spatial scales (Sotarauta and Suvinen, 2019). This, in turn, requires other actors (e.g.…”

Section: Institutional Agency and Practice In Green Transformation Prmentioning

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Green reorientation of clusters and the role of policy: ‘the normative’ and ‘the neutral’ route

Sjøtun

Njøs

2019

European Planning Studies

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This dissertation is empirically motivated by understanding the observed and ongoing green transformation of the maritime industry in Western Norway, a development that has had implications for both environmental protection, regional economic growth and job creation. Theoretically, the dissertation argues that the observed regional transformation processes should be analysed through an integration of three theoretical frameworks; 'Evolutionary Economic Geography' (EEG), 'Transition Studies' (TS) and 'Institutional Entrepreneurship Work' (IEW). As such, the dissertation argues that transformation is a complex phenomenon that requires co-evolution between several actors, technologies, policies and institutions, but also that these processes need to be embedded in evolving territorial contexts. Finally, these processes must be driven by purposeful actors aiming to change institutions to be more favourable for a green transformation. The dissertation approaches an integration between EEG, TS and IEW through engaging with three debates or 'areas of engagement' within these literatures. These include debates around how actors and agency affect institutional change processes, the role of territorial and multi-scalar dynamics, and the role of simultaneous and dynamically interacting dimensions of materiality, organization and discourse. Through these debates, the dissertation specifically argues for a new analytical framework which emphasises multi-actor institutional change (drawing on IEW), territoriality and multi-scalarity (drawing on EEG), and multi-dimensionality (drawing on TS), as well as the interplay between these elements. The theoretical discussion is illustrated, empirically, by an extensive case study of the green transformation of the Western Norwegian maritime industry. The dissertation is based on four qualitatively oriented papers, each of which contributes to the overall problem framings that it has sought to tackle. These papers focus on the following issues; Paper #1) how engineers perform multi-scalar institution changing practices in addition to technologist practices during processes of transformation; Paper #2) how the material, organizational and discursive dimension around a specific multi-scalar demonstration project (the actor-networks around and the materiality of a 'performing project enacting agency') have led to change in public ferry procurement on regional and national level; Paper #3) how achieving 'directionality' in cluster policy must recognise that regional clusters are embedded in different 'trinity' (materialityorganisation-discourse), sector and territorial/multi-scalar dynamics; and Paper #4) how green x List of papers This dissertation is based on the following papers:

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Place leadership and the challenge of transformation: policy platforms and innovation ecosystems in promotion of green growth

Abstract: Place leadership and the challenge of transformation: policy platforms and innovation ecosystems in promotion of green growth. European Planning Studies.

Cited by 44 publications

References 32 publications

Opportunities and challenges for future regional development

Opportunities and challenges for future regional development

The many roles of change agency in the game of green path development in the North

Green reorientation of clusters and the role of policy: ‘the normative’ and ‘the neutral’ route

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