Place-based transformative innovation policies

Michaela Trippl and Franz Tödtling

Chapter 2 in Sustainable Regional Restructuring, 2025, pp 11-26 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: There is a growing recognition that green industrial transitions and wider sustainability transformations of socio-technical systems require new approaches to place-based innovation and industrial strategies and policies. This chapter explores how recent work on challenge-oriented regional innovation systems (CORIS) could inform and support a reorientation of established place-based policies towards tackling complex territorial sustainability challenges. We identify three key contributions that the CORIS approach can offer: first, it helps to map and analyse the place-specific preconditions for transformative innovation; second, it accords attention to various core processes that underpin transformative initiatives; and third, it enables pinpointing different routes of reconfiguring historically grown industrial and support structures. Our chapter illustrates the significance of these insights for novel place-based policies that promote transformative innovation in regions.

Keywords: Regional Sustainability Transitions; Place-based Policies; Challenge-oriented Innovation Systems; Transformative Initiatives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035330782
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