Markus Grillitsch
Senior Lecturer
Leadership and governance challenges in delivering place-based transformation through Smart Specialisation
Author
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