From competitiveness to territorial value: transformative territorial innovation policies and anchoring milieus

Hugues Jeannerat and Olivier Crevoisier

European Planning Studies, 2022, vol. 30, issue 11, 2157-2177

Abstract: This paper proposes a conceptual reading of the issues and theories that have cumulatively formed the backbone of current ‘innovatized’ territorial development policies. It emphasizes the broadening of a technological innovation perspective to a cultural and, subsequently, social and societal innovation perspective. While this broader perspective encourages systemic changes that are crucial in order to reach global sustainability goals, it tends to under-conceptualize how to make transformative change economically viable. The paper, therefore, develops a transformative territorial innovation policy approach focused on ‘territorial value’, which is understood as the result of locally interdependent production, consumption and living advantages in the long run. Such a policy should be based on enlarged anchoring milieus of actors engaged in place-based experiments at the nexus of export-, visitor- and household-based income systems. To do so, it should promote policy mixes that support co-innovation, entrepreneurship, sensemaking and institutionalizing across multiple scales and locations. The paper finally calls for further research and conceptualizations on territorial value and territorial valuation and for a new role of the social sciences and humanities in innovation.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2022.2042208

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