Policy activism and regional path creation: the promotion of offshore wind in North East England and Scotland

By Stuart Dawley, D. Mackinnon, A. Cumbers, A. Pike. 2015

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This paper argues for a broad evolutionary political economy understanding of local and regional path creation. We adopt a multi-actor and multi-scalar perspective, focusing on the roles of the state and regional policy interventions in mediating the creation of growth paths. The framework interprets attempts in North East England and Scotland to support path creation in the offshore wind sector through evolutionary inspired contextual policies. We demonstrate that the realisation of the these policies remains crucially conditioned by the dynamic and complex interplay between the national political economy of energy market regulation, industrial policy and inter-regional asymmetries in the governance of economic development.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Political Science and International Relations

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Exogenous sources of regional industrial change (2018, background): “(Dawley et al., 2015: 11) Importantly, this case also yields interesting insights into the role of regional, national and supra-national policy actors and influences in new path development.”
Institutional Thickness Revisited (2017, background): “This in turn shapes the possibilities for regional policy makers to develop regional strategies, support innovation activities, and align diverse interests toward a common agenda for the region (Cooke 2001; Dawley 2014; Dawley et al. 2015).”
Exogenously Led and Policy-Supported New Path Development in Peripheral Regions: Analytical and Synthetic Routes (2017, background): “…growth paths and confirm recent work that suggests that more attention should be devoted to understanding how transplantation of firms, industries, knowledge, and other resources can serve as a mechanism of new path development (e.g., Martin and Sunley 2006; Dawley et al. 2015; Isaksen 2015).”
Rethinking Path Creation: A Geographical Political Economy Approach (2019, background): “They take a variety of different forms, including foreign direct investment (FDI), labor mobility, knowledge flows, joint research and development (R&D) projects, and exogenous policy influences (Dawley et al. 2015; Binz, Truffer, and Coenen 2016; Trippl, Grillitsch, and Isaksen 2017).”
Regional industrial restructuring resulting from individual and system agency (2018, background): “Similar discussions have also surfaced in the literature of Evolutionary Economic Geography, where the role of different forms of agency has become an important topic when discussing regional economic restructuring (Simmie 2012; Dawley et al. 2015; Boschma et al. 2017).”
Agency and actors in regional industrial path development. A framework and longitudinal analysis (2020, background): “Similarly, other accounts have highlighted that regional policy agents support and facilitate the development of new regional industrial paths by promoting new ideas in front of regional and national decision-makers and prioritising them for political support (Dawley, 2014; Dawley et al., 2015).”
Towards a comprehensive understanding of new regional industrial path development (2019, background): “…industrial paths in less-favoured places rather demonstrate the role of exogenous impulses such as the arrival of innovative firms from outside and other forms of inflow of external knowledge and resources (Dawley, 2014; Dawley et al., 2015; Isaksen & Trippl, 2017; Varis, Tohmo, & Littunen, 2014).”
Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: a research agenda (2017, unknown): “This means that the role of public actors in local industry formation cannot be studied in isolation from other agents and without taking a multiscalar perspective (Dawley, MacKinnon, Cumbers, & Pike, 2015).”
Local growth evolutions: recession, resilience and recovery (2015, background): “On the other hand, Di Caro (2015) examines local growth patterns in Italy over the past four decades and argues that certain types of diversified manufacturing have been more resilient and this has shaped the fortunes of local economies.”