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Markus Grillitsch

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Leadership and governance challenges in delivering place-based transformation through Smart Specialisation

Author

  • Iryna Fil Kristensen
  • Rhiannon Pugh
  • Markus Grillitsch

Summary, in English

This paper considers the unfolding of Smart Specialisation Strategy (RIS3) in one of Europe’s innovation-leading metropolitan regions: Stockholm, Sweden. Theoretically, it contributes to debates around change agency and reflects more broadly, which implications arise for metropolitan innovation-leader regions and which are of more generic nature. It argues that actor endowments, dense networks, experience with participatory governance processes and good governance are not sufficient for a successful implementation of RIS3. It finds that transformative regional innovation policy is contingent upon the adequate empowerment of change agents rather than on general regional preconditions.

Department/s

  • CIRCLE
  • Department of Human Geography

Publishing year

2023

Language

English

Pages

196-208

Publication/Series

Regional Studies

Volume

57

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Political Science

Keywords

  • change agency
  • governance
  • leadership
  • Smart Specialisation

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0034-3404