Beyond the "single path view": Inter-path relationships in regional contexts

Autor(en)

Alexandra Frangenheim, Michaela Trippl, Camilla Maria Chlebna

Abstrakt

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(en)

Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung

Externe Organisation(en)

Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, University of Agder

Anzahl der Seiten

26

Publikationsdatum

2018

ÖFOS 2012

507026 Wirtschaftsgeographie

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/dd170b85-02a9-4ac8-b23f-a01c00f8fab5