Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis

Grillitsch, Markus; Sotarauta, Markku; Asheim, Björn; Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Haus-Reve, Silje; Kolehmainen, Jari; Kurikka, Heli; Lundquist, Karl‐Johan; Martynovich, Mikhail; Monteilhet, Skirmante; Nielsen, H. Dean; Nilsson, Magnus; Rekers, Josephine V.; Sopanen, Sami; Stihl, Linda

doi:10.1080/00343404.2022.2053095

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“…The analysis presented above provides some important lessons as to the role of the emergence of entrepreneurial ecosystems as a catalyst for new path creation and economic development in a lagging regional environment. It further connects the literature concerning entrepreneurial ecosystems with the contemporary literature on regional development, especially that focused on the role of human agency within the processes and mechanisms of path creation (Carvalho and Vale, 2018; Grillitsch et al, 2021, 2022a, 2022b). The analysis indicates that lagging regions can begin to revitalise themselves through an entrepreneurial approach, but this process is likely to be contingent and dependent on a number of important components, all of which relate to the notion of a place-based entrepreneurial ecosystem.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…After many of years of structural theories of regional development, regional studies have more recently taken an ‘agentic turn’ with new theorisations addressing the role of particular forms of agency in catalysing the industrial path creation from which regional development stems (Grillitsch and Sotarauta, 2020; Grillitsch et al, 2022a, 2022b; Huggins and Thompson, 2022). Much of this thinking originates from ideas within evolutionary economics (Nelson and Winter, 1982), and this now forms part of the growing field of evolutionary economic geography (Boschma and Martin, 2007), and the more nascent field of behavioural economic geography (Huggins and Thompson, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Entrepreneurial ecosystems, agency and regional development: Emergence and new path creation in the Cardiff city region

Huggins,

Munday,

Thompson

et al. 2023

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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This paper addresses the process of entrepreneurial ecosystem emergence in regions and the mechanisms through which new industrial paths are created. It focuses on the context of a relatively weak economic region and develops a mode of analysis that considers the role of human agency within the emergence of entrepreneurial ecosystems. This analysis addresses the case study of the Cardiff city region in the United Kingdom. It indicates that the revitalisation of lagging regions through an entrepreneurial ecosystem approach is likely to be contingent upon a number of important components: (1) access to potential entrepreneurial agency, (2) the engagement of ‘enlightened’ local political agency and (3) the formation of a collective agency across entrepreneurial and political agents as well as other relevant stakeholders. The emergence of collective agency in the city region is found to have led to new policies, networks and entrepreneurial support within the high-tech industry, coupled with the development of new industrial paths and improved economic conditions. The paper argues that adopting an agency-based approach to analysing entrepreneurial emergence highlights the importance of key human actors in such emergence. It is concluded that lagging regions can trigger a process of development through new path creation stemming from the emergence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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confidence: 91%

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confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurial ecosystems, agency and regional development: Emergence and new path creation in the Cardiff city region

Huggins,

Munday,

Thompson

et al. 2023

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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“…In contrast, case-oriented, qualitative techniques provide a complex understanding of specific settings but with limited generalizability. QCA is considered by Ragin (1998) as a middle path that combines the strengths of both quantitative, variable-oriented and qualitative, case-oriented methods (Zheng et al , 2021; Grillitsch et al , 2022). QCA is a set-theoretic method that systematically recognizes all logically possible configurations (Fiss, 2011; Ragin, 2008).…”

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“…the four internal resources and the external market condition). QCA is particularly appropriate for medium and small-sized samples (Rihoux and Ragin, 2009) and has been widely applied in management studies (Zheng et al, 2021;Del Sarto et al, 2020;Douglas et al, 2020;Torres and Augusto, 2020;Gilbert and Campbell, 2015;Grillitsch et al, 2022). Social researchers often face a dilemma between the complexity of a social phenomenon and generalities (Ragin, 1998).…”

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Resource configurations among digital academic spin-offs: finding the technology-market fit

Evertsen,

Rasmussen

2023

IJEBR

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PurposeManaging resources is crucial for firms to gain competitive advantages and succeed, particularly for startups with limited resources. It is important to understand how digital startups in general and digital academic spin-offs (ASOs) in particular may orchestrate their resources to optimize value. This paper integrates the resource-based perspective with digital entrepreneurship to analyze the resource configurations leading to success of digital ASOs.Design/methodology/approachThe paper adopts an inductive approach and applies qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) on a longitudinal dataset of digital ASOs to identify the resource configurations for a successful outcome.FindingsThe authors' paper identifies two main paths to success among digital ASOs, consisting of five distinct resource configurations. The first path is termed “market exploiters” that operate in favorable market conditions where specific technological resources and research collaboration resources are lacking. The second path involves “technology explorers” that combines both technological and commercial resources to achieve success.Research limitations/implicationsBy outlining distinct pathways to the success of digital ASOs, this paper contributes to the digital academic entrepreneurship literature and the resource-based view of entrepreneurial firms. The paper also suggests implications for policymakers and managers in managing resources for the success of digital ventures.Originality/valueBy exploring the resource configurations leading to the success of ASOs commercializing digital technologies, the paper shows that favorable market conditions and complementary resource configurations can be alternative pathways to success.

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“…Complementary to EEG and GPE, other approaches such as the institutional and relational economic geography (Bathelt and Glückler, 2017; Gertler, 2010; Martin, 2010; Yeung, 2005) and the global production networks (Coe and Yeung, 2015; Henderson et al, 2002) 1 highlight other important aspects of regional economic life such as the role of formal and informal institutions, the interconnectedness between firms, knowledge organizations and governmental entities, and the interrelationships between global lead firms and regional economies. Furthermore, the recent burgeoning work on “regional industrial path development,” combines the strengths of several of the aforementioned approaches (i.e., evolutionary, institutional, relational, GPE) by emphasizing aspects such as regional institutional conditions, formal and informal networks, regional support structures, and the role of human agency (Benner, 2023; Binz et al, 2016; Grillitsch and Sotarauta, 2020; Gong et al, 2022a; Grillitsch et al, 2022b; Hassink et al, 2019; Isaksen and Trippl, 2016; MacKinnon et al, 2019; Miörner, 2022; Trippl et al, 2018, 2020).…”

Section: Regional Economic Development and Transformation: Where Lies...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Futures should matter (more): Toward a forward-looking perspective in economic geography

Gong

2024

Progress in Human Geography

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Although the future is an increasingly important topic for regional economic development, our knowledge of the future as a research subject has been limited. Following futures studies, we develop a perspective on a specific version of regional futures research based on critical realism. We believe that discussing regional futures could be a promising “boundary object” for scholars taking different approaches. Moreover, we argue that economic geographers’ ability to engage with the future in meaningful ways is as important as their ability to engage with the past and present if the discipline is to retain its relevance in the future.

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Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis

Cited by 30 publications

References 79 publications

Entrepreneurial ecosystems, agency and regional development: Emergence and new path creation in the Cardiff city region

Entrepreneurial ecosystems, agency and regional development: Emergence and new path creation in the Cardiff city region

Resource configurations among digital academic spin-offs: finding the technology-market fit

Futures should matter (more): Toward a forward-looking perspective in economic geography

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