The thorny road towards green path development: the case of bioplastics in Lower Austria
ABSTRACTThis article contributes to a better understanding of how heterogeneous innovation system actors shape green industrial path development. Previous research has identified various forces of stability that reside within place-specific and non-local innovation system structures and advanced our...
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| description | ABSTRACTThis article contributes to a better understanding of how heterogeneous innovation system actors shape green industrial path development. Previous research has identified various forces of stability that reside within place-specific and non-local innovation system structures and advanced our understanding of the role of change agency in rearranging these structures to facilitate green transitions. Failures to reconfigure innovation systems have received limited attention so far. Drawing on recent insights into the role of maintenance agency, we cast light on how powerful actors undertake strategic interventions to prevent rearrangements of innovation systems from happening. Our empirical analysis of the emerging bioplastics path in the region of Lower Austria reveals how resistive incumbents from the fossil-based plastics industry, academia and support organisations preserve historically grown system configurations that favour the old unsustainable industry and create barriers to the consolidation of the bioplastics path. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-88a9c04c68154a308988251cb0afecee2024-04-03T10:52:34ZengTaylor & Francis GroupRegional Studies, Regional Science2168-13762023-12-0110173574910.1080/21681376.2023.2244572The thorny road towards green path development: the case of bioplastics in Lower AustriaNikolaus Steinböck0Michaela Trippl1Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaDepartment of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaABSTRACTThis article contributes to a better understanding of how heterogeneous innovation system actors shape green industrial path development. Previous research has identified various forces of stability that reside within place-specific and non-local innovation system structures and advanced our understanding of the role of change agency in rearranging these structures to facilitate green transitions. Failures to reconfigure innovation systems have received limited attention so far. Drawing on recent insights into the role of maintenance agency, we cast light on how powerful actors undertake strategic interventions to prevent rearrangements of innovation systems from happening. Our empirical analysis of the emerging bioplastics path in the region of Lower Austria reveals how resistive incumbents from the fossil-based plastics industry, academia and support organisations preserve historically grown system configurations that favour the old unsustainable industry and create barriers to the consolidation of the bioplastics path.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/21681376.2023.2244572green path developmentinnovation system reconfigurationbioplasticsmaintenance agencyO33R11 |
| spellingShingle | Nikolaus Steinböck Michaela Trippl The thorny road towards green path development: the case of bioplastics in Lower Austria Regional Studies, Regional Science green path development innovation system reconfiguration bioplastics maintenance agency O33 R11 |
| title | The thorny road towards green path development: the case of bioplastics in Lower Austria |
| title_full | The thorny road towards green path development: the case of bioplastics in Lower Austria |
| title_fullStr | The thorny road towards green path development: the case of bioplastics in Lower Austria |
| title_full_unstemmed | The thorny road towards green path development: the case of bioplastics in Lower Austria |
| title_short | The thorny road towards green path development: the case of bioplastics in Lower Austria |
| title_sort | thorny road towards green path development the case of bioplastics in lower austria |
| topic | green path development innovation system reconfiguration bioplastics maintenance agency O33 R11 |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/21681376.2023.2244572 |
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