Contextualizing agency in new path development: how system selectivity shapes regional reconfiguration capacity
In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 56, Heft 4, S. 592-604
ISSN: 1360-0591
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In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 56, Heft 4, S. 592-604
ISSN: 1360-0591
In: Environmental innovation and societal transitions, Band 40, S. 172-188
ISSN: 2210-4224
In: Environmental innovation and societal transitions, Band 49, S. 100787
ISSN: 2210-4224
In: Environmental innovation and societal transitions, Band 45, S. 246-269
ISSN: 2210-4224
In: Environmental innovation and societal transitions, Band 44, S. 29-47
ISSN: 2210-4224
In recent years, we have witnessed an intensive scholarly discussion about the limitations of traditional inward looking regional innovation strategies. New policy approaches put more emphasis on promoting the external connectedness of regions. However, the institutional preconditions for collaboration across borders have received little attention so far. The aim of this paper is to investigate both conceptually and empirically how policy network organizations can target the institutional underpinnings and challenges of cross-border integration processes and knowledge flows. The empirical part of the paper consists of an analysis of activities performed by four cross-border policy network organizations in the Öresund region (made up of Zealand in Denmark and Scania in Sweden) and how they relate to the creation of institutional preconditions and the removal of institutional barriers. Our findings suggest that cross-border policy network organizations have limited power to change or facilitate the adaptation of formal institutions directly. They mainly rely on mobilizing actors at other territorial levels for improving the formal institutional conditions for knowledge flows. Informal institutions, on the other hand, can be targeted by an array of different tools available to policy network organizations. We conclude that institutional preconditions in cross-border regions are influenced by collective activities of multiple actors on different territorial levels, and that regional actors mainly adapt to the existing institutional framework rather than change it. For innovation policy, this implies that possibilities for institutional change and adaptation need to be considered in regional innovation policy strategies.
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In: Environment and planning. C, Politics and space, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 201-218
ISSN: 2399-6552
In recent years, we have witnessed an intensive scholarly discussion about the limitations of traditional inward looking regional innovation strategies. New policy approaches put more emphasis on promoting the external connectedness of regions. However, the institutional preconditions for collaboration across borders have received little attention so far. The aim of this paper is to investigate both conceptually and empirically how policy network organizations can target the institutional underpinnings and challenges of cross-border integration processes and knowledge flows. The empirical part of the paper consists of an analysis of activities performed by four cross-border policy network organizations in the Öresund region (made up of Zealand in Denmark and Scania in Sweden) and how they relate to the creation of institutional preconditions and the removal of institutional barriers. Our findings suggest that cross-border policy network organizations have limited power to change or facilitate the adaptation of formal institutions directly. They mainly rely on mobilizing actors at other territorial levels for improving the formal institutional conditions for knowledge flows. Informal institutions, on the other hand, can be targeted by an array of different tools available to policy network organizations. We conclude that institutional preconditions in cross-border regions are influenced by collective activities of multiple actors on different territorial levels, and that regional actors mainly adapt to the existing institutional framework rather than change it. For innovation policy, this implies that possibilities for institutional change and adaptation need to be considered in regional innovation policy strategies.
In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 56, Heft 4, S. 579-591
ISSN: 1360-0591
In: Research Policy, Band 48, Heft 4, S. 1048-1061