Agency in regional path development: Towards a bio-economy in Värmland, Sweden

Suyash Jolly (), Markus Grillitsch and Teis Hansen ()
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Suyash Jolly: Lund University, Postal: Sweden
Teis Hansen: Lund University, Postal: Sweden

No 2019/7, Papers in Innovation Studies from Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research

Abstract: Despite significant interest in regional industrial restructuring in economic geography, surprisingly scarce attention has been paid to the changing role of agency over time. The current paper develops a framework for understanding the role of multiple types of agents and the agency they exercise for new path development. The framework is employed in a longitudinal study of industry development in Värmland, Sweden, from forestry towards a bio-economy. The analysis highlights how actors exercise very different types of agency in different periods of path development.

Keywords: Bio-economy; Värmland; agency; path development; longitudinal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B52 L73 L78 O30 P48 Q50 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2019-05-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-env, nep-geo and nep-hme
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