System-level agency and its many shades: path development in a multidimensional innovation system
- Author(s)
- Maximilian Benner
- Abstract
In the path development literature, how agents shape innovation systems has attracted growing interest. However, the concept of such system-level agency suffers from an unclear distinction from other levels of agency, underdeveloped links to other agency concepts, vagueness about the conceptualization of a multidimensional innovation system and the impact of agency on it, and a limited understanding of the variegated outcomes of agentic processes. This article offers a sympathetic critique, suggests ideas for a nuanced multilevel agency conceptualization, and proposes a research agenda to close the gaps in understanding how system-level agency affects the course and outcomes of path development.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geography and Regional Research
- Journal
- Regional Studies
- Volume
- 58
- Pages
- 238-251
- No. of pages
- 14
- ISSN
- 0034-3404
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2179614
- Publication date
- 2023
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 507026 Economic geography, 507014 Regional development
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Environmental Science, General Social Sciences
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/efe4e6db-2ef3-4f78-afd6-30ab5f329047