Policy options for green regional development: Adopting a production and application perspective

Autor(en)
Franz Tödtling, Michaela Trippl, Alexandra Frangenheim
Abstrakt

Green and sustainable developments have received increasing attention in recent years due to challenges emanating from climate change and worsening environmental conditions. Although these are problems of global nature, actions have to be taken often at lower spatial scales. We focus on innovation and industrial policies and on the regional level since green development often can be supported here by respective policies. However, effective policies have to consider that individual regions face different kinds of challenges for moving towards a ‘greener’ future. This article develops a framework that allows taking such differences into account. We distinguish between the production side of ‘green technologies’ (i.e. the industries that develop and produce such technologies) and the application side (i.e. the adoption of such technologies by firms and the wider society), and we investigate what challenges might prevail on both sides and explore the potential role of policies for different types of regions.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
Externe Organisation(en)
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU)
Journal
Science and Public Policy
Band
47
Seiten
865–875
Anzahl der Seiten
11
ISSN
0302-3427
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scaa051
Publikationsdatum
12-2020
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
507026 Wirtschaftsgeographie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Geography, Planning and Development, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Public administration
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/113e4bc5-6435-4c36-9f76-d9abac733a77