In the path development literature, how agents shape innovation systems has attracted
growing interest. However, the concept of such system-level agency suffers from an unclear …

The emergence of new industries that are not closely related to existing regional paths
remains an underexplained process in evolutionary economic geography. This paper …

New path creation processes are a vital component of regional economic development. This
paper establishes a behavioural framework to examine and understand such processes. It is …

In the literature on regional industrial path development, the path-as-process perspective
conceptualizes the emergence, evolution, transformation, and decline of regional industries …

Path constitution theory has emerged as a promising combination of two contrasting
perspectives on technological innovation: path dependence, which focuses on historically …

This chapter analyses opportunities and challenges for regional innovation policies
designed to promote new path development in different types of regional innovation systems …

Path-breaking innovations are increasingly developed and commercialized by networks of
co-creating actors, called innovation ecosystems. Previous work in this area demonstrates …

There is now an emerging perspective that considers agency to be distributed across actors,
artifacts, rules, and routines (Hutchins, 1995; Callon and Law, 1997). Such a perspective on …

In this chapter, the focus is on individuals and their actions related to that network, which is
formed while a new technology agglomeration emerges. Focusing on individual level …

This paper argues that lack of focus on agency, intention, and interest is a weakness in
regional innovation studies and studies focusing on knowledge dynamics. There is a need …