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

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.

• Författare: Iryna Fil Kristensen; Rhiannon Pugh; Markus Grillitsch
• Avdelning/ar: CIRCLE; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi
• Publiceringsår: 2023
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 196-208
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Regional Studies
• Volym: 57
• Issue: 1
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2090536
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis
• Ämne: Political Science
• Nyckelord: change agency; governance; leadership; Smart Specialisation
• Aktiv: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 0034-3404