Agency in green regional path development: systematic evidence from the Nordic regions

Anne Nygaard Tanner, Eun Kyung Park, Christian Richter Østergaard

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Abstract

In light of the current climate crisis and pressure on depleted resources, green industrial development is a necessity to improve the sustainability of the environment. Although we have seen a significant increase in the literature dealing with green regional path development, there is still a substantial research gap when it comes to understanding who and what drives different types of the green technological development at the regional level. This article adopts an agency-oriented approach and contributes to the literature by (1) providing a systematic empirical analysis of green regional path development, (2) showing the heterogeneity of green regional path development and (3) the linkages to pre-existing knowledge bases and external knowledge sources, and (4) analyzing the type of inventive actors involved in green regional path development. We use a unique, comprehensive database on green inventors and patent applicants in the Nordic countries. We combine quantitative and qualitative measures to validate an elaborated typology of green regional path development focusing on green path extension, path renewal, path diversification and path creation. Findings reveal that green inventive activity is spatially concentrated in few regions across the Nordic countries characterized by multiple types of path development processes. We find that the majority of green technological development are driven by incumbent firms involved in path extension, renewal and diversification processes, whereas new entrants, although they account for less green inventive activity are mainly involved in path creation processes entailing the largest degree of structural change.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Publikationsdato2021
Antal sider42
StatusUdgivet - 2021
Udgivet eksterntJa
BegivenhedDRUID Conference 2021: Copenhagen - Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Danmark
Varighed: 18 okt. 202120 okt. 2021
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KonferenceDRUID Conference 2021
LokationCopenhagen Business School
Land/OmrådeDanmark
ByCopenhagen
Periode18/10/202120/10/2021
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