Strategic agency and institutional change: investigating the role of universities in regional innovation systems (RISs)

By P. Benneworth, Rómulo Pinheiro, James Karlsen. 2017

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ABSTRACT Strategic agency and institutional change: investigating the role of universities in regional innovation systems (RISs). Regional Studies. Past analyses rooted in the thick description of regions successful in constructing regional innovation systems have given way to analyses more focused on the intentionality in these processes, and how actors in regions with their own wider networks can shape these high-level changes in regional fortunes. As part of this, place-based leadership has emerged as a promising concept to restore both agency and territory to these discussions, but it remains under-theorized in key areas. This paper contributes to these debates by arguing that there remains a reduction of agency to organizations, and that place-based leadership research needs to take into account organizational dynamics and interests in for bettering our understanding of the dynamics of place-based leadership in regional innovation systems.

Subfields: Education, Political Science and International Relations

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• Place leadership and regional economic development: a framework for cross-regional analysis (2019, methodology): “REGIONAL STUDIES In summary, the recent academic and policy literature shows that leadership is an important contributor to the success of cities and regions (e.g., Benneworth et al., 2017; Nicholds et al., 2017; OECD, 2009; Raagmaa & Keerberg, 2017; Sotarauta, 2016).”
• The emerging role of university spin-off companies in developing regional entrepreneurial university ecosystems: The case of Andalusia (2019, background): “…Helix approach of university–government– industry relations (Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff, 2000), the Quadruple Helix (Carayannis and Campbell, 2009), the national innovation system (Freeman, 1987), the regional innovation systems (Benneworth et al., 2017), and the ecosystem approach (Spigel, 2017).”