Beyond the "single path view": Inter-path relationships in regional contexts
- Author(s)
- Alexandra Frangenheim, Michaela Trippl, Camilla Maria Chlebna
- Abstract
Recurrent economic and financial crises, globalisation, digitalisation and climate change are posing major challenges for regional economies to constantly renew their industrial structures. Over the past few years much progress has been made in understanding how new path development unfolds in a regional context. However, most conceptualisations and empirical analyses to date have mainly been focused on one new path or path development activities in one nascent industry only. Potential relationships between emerging paths have been neglected and as a consequence little is known about how new paths shape each other’s evolution. This paper develops a framework to analyse the nature of relationships between multiple new
regional growth paths. We suggest that paths are either linked or unlinked and we discuss the role of agency in shaping the relationship between linked paths to be either supportive, competitive or neutral towards each other. We conclude by discussing implications for policy and identifying avenues for future research.- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geography and Regional Research
- External organisation(s)
- Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, University of Agder
- No. of pages
- 26
- Publication date
- 2018
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 507026 Economic geography
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/dd170b85-02a9-4ac8-b23f-a01c00f8fab5