Regional agency and constitution of new paths: a study of agency in early formation of new paths on the west coast of Norway

Holmen, Ann Karin T.; Fosse, Jens Kristian

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“…Paper #3 and 4, increased validity was ensured due to several authors discussing the empirical findings. Finally, my empirical observations were found to be consistent with former (Holmen and Fosse, 2017) and parallel (e.g. Bergek et al, 2018, Steen, 2018 research related to my case and context.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…As such, both willingness from firms (in particular shipping companies) to take risks, and technological territorial pre-conditions, combined with new and green public procurement demands and other top-down regulations-which still have been lobbied for 'bottom-up' by regional actors-have provided the basis for e.g. the emergence of a regional maritime cleantech cluster focusing on network building, lobbying and demonstration projects (see also Holmen and Fosse, 2017). The materialisation of demonstration projects coupled with processes of green clustering have thus shown concrete examples of innovations that simultaneously can contribute to saving the environment and simultaneously providing both new green work places and economic growth opportunities for the regional maritime industry.…”

Section: Concluding Discussion and Directions For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, within EEG there is a growing research agenda, which is also interested in how different types of agency conducted by different types of actors play out in spatial contexts (Isaksen et al, 2019). Recent writings within EEG have, for example, drawn attention to how regional agency processes consist of both Schumpeterian agency, institutional entrepreneurship and place leadership (Grillitsch and Sotarauta, 2018), or entrepreneurial and public policy agency (Holmen and Fosse, 2017). 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.…”

Section: Institutional Agency and Practice In Green Transformation Prmentioning

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“…Whereas EEG has tended to focus on knowledge and firms, the current debate has placed particular attention on political and institutional contexts…hinting towards processes such as market formation and the role of institutional agency and policy-making And, indeed, EEG scholars have now started to show more and more interest in IE and adjacent concepts (e.g. institutional navigation, institutional agency) (Dawley, 2014, Grillitsch and Sotarauta, 2018, Holmen and Fosse, 2017, Sotarauta and Suvinen, 2018.…”

Section: Institutional Agency and Practice In Green Transformation Prmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Due to these novel technological developments and applications in the regional maritime industry (henceforth 'industry' unless specified otherwise), this industry therefore provides a very interesting setting, or 'case', to study. This becomes even more relevant when, on a more general level, efforts to study processes of low/zero emission technological transformation in the industry have been surprisingly few (see, however, Holmen and Fosse, 2017), at least from a social science perspective (Steen, 2018). That being said, there is a growing list of contributions here which e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

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

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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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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Concluding Discussion and Directions For Future Researchmentioning

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Section: Institutional Agency and Practice In Green Transformation Prmentioning

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Section: Institutional Agency and Practice In Green Transformation Prmentioning

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Section: Study Areamentioning

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The road towards autonomous driving – A differentiated view of institutional agency in path transformation

Miörner

2020

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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The purpose of the article is to contribute to conceptual and empirical understandings of institutional agency in path transformation. Previous studies of links between institutional change and industrial transformation have focused mainly on the institutionalization of new practices and influence of territorially defined institutional preconditions, leaving a need to disentangle different types of institutional agency and the rationales behind actors' activities. The author elaborates on different dimensions of the institutional environment in which path transformation occurs and proposes a new analytical framework for investigating the role of institutional agency in path development. The framework identifies different types of institutional agency, respectively targeting the 'legitimation', 'anchoring' and 'enabling' of new paths. It is applied to a case study of the automotive industry in the NUTS2 region West Sweden, based on the development of self-driving cars. The analysis reveals that actors utilized the relationship between existing institutions when formulating strategies, rather than primarily targeting institutional change. The author concludes that actors deploy a combination of different types of institutional agency that exhibit varying spatial patterns, and discusses the implications for how the relationship between the past, present and future is understood in path development research.

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How the practice of clustering shapes cluster emergence

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Sandberg

2019

Regional Studies

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Regional agency and constitution of new paths: a study of agency in early formation of new paths on the west coast of Norway

Cited by 8 publications

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

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

The road towards autonomous driving – A differentiated view of institutional agency in path transformation

How the practice of clustering shapes cluster emergence

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