System-level agency and its many shades: path development in a multidimensional innovation system

Maximilian Benner

doi:10.1080/00343404.2023.2179614

System-level agency and its many shades: path development in a multidimensional innovation system

Maximilian Benner

Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung

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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.

Originalsprache	Englisch
Seiten (von - bis)	238-251
Seitenumfang	14
Fachzeitschrift	Regional Studies
Jahrgang	58
Ausgabenummer	1
Frühes Online-Datum	2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2179614
Publikationsstatus	Veröffentlicht - 2023

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This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): M 2992-G. A previous working paper version of this article was published under the title \u2018System-level agency and its many shades: how to shape the system for path development?\u2019 in the \u2018Papers in Economic Geography and Innovation Studies\u2019 series. The author is grateful to Michaela Trippl for valuable suggestions on an earlier draft, and particularly for drawing his attention to the distinction of sectoral and technological dimensions and to the role of firm-level agency scaling up to the system level. This article also benefited from early discussions of preliminary ideas with Johannes Gl\u00FCckler and Simon Baumgartinger-Seiringer. The author is further grateful to James Murphy, to the editor and to the anonymous reviewers for their constructive criticism. In particular, inspiring reviewer suggestions on the variegated outcomes of agency, the role of power, resources and credibility, and the importance of industry specifics and newness are gratefully acknowledged. All errors and omissions are the author\u2019s alone, as are the opinions expressed.

ÖFOS 2012

507026 Wirtschaftsgeographie
507014 Regionalentwicklung

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Industriell-institutionelle Koevolution in Regionalökonomien
Benner, M. (Projektleiter*in) & Trippl, M. (Co-Projektleiter*in)
1/03/21 → 28/02/23
Projekt: Forschungsförderung

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