Innovative cities: how to explain differences between cities? An answer based on an interpretive approach

Hubert Heinelt and Georgios Terizakis

Urban Research & Practice, 2021, vol. 14, issue 5, 487-501

Abstract: How to explain differences between cities regarding innovations will be addressed in this article from an interpretive perspective: actors have to develop an understanding of what constrains them and what they can achieve, how, and with whom. ‘External’ factors are therefore not explanatory variables in themselves. This means that actors have to develop an understanding about conditions for innovations in their city. This understanding gives meaning to action, and has to be developed through communicative interaction by being constantly reproduced or transformed during communicative interaction. Mechanisms involved in such communicative interaction will be shown and how they have to be applied to particular local narratives.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2020.1723032

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