Reconsidering actor roles in regional innovation systems: transformative industrial change in the forest-based bioeconomy

Hanna Martin, Ida Grundel and Margareta Dahlström

Regional Studies, 2023, vol. 57, issue 9, 1636-1648

Abstract: This paper reconsiders the roles of actors in regional innovation systems in the context of transformative industrial change. Empirically, it draws on evidence from the Värmland region of Sweden, where regional innovation system actors, with partial funding from the Swedish Innovation Agency, are striving to build a bioeconomy upon the traditional forest-related industries. The main findings include that transformative industrial change adds a variety of responsibilities to regional actors, including the provision of change legitimacy, influencing the industry’s innovation directionality and achieving social acceptance for change. A combined perspective on sociotechnical transitions and path development in regional innovation systems theoretically informs the case.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2022.2151581

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