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Leadership and governance challenges in delivering place-based transformation through Smart Specialisation

Kristensen, Iryna Fil LU ; Pugh, Rhiannon LU orcid and Grillitsch, Markus LU (2023) In Regional Studies 57(1). p.196-208
Abstract

This paper considers the unfolding of Smart Specialisation Strategy (RIS3) in one of Europe’s innovation-leading metropolitan regions: Stockholm, Sweden. Theoretically, it contributes to debates around change agency and reflects more broadly, which implications arise for metropolitan innovation-leader regions and which are of more generic nature. It argues that actor endowments, dense networks, experience with participatory governance processes and good governance are not sufficient for a successful implementation of RIS3. It finds that transformative regional innovation policy is contingent upon the adequate empowerment of change agents rather than on general regional preconditions.

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change agency, governance, leadership, Smart Specialisation
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Regional Studies
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57
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1
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196 - 208
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Taylor & Francis
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0034-3404
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10.1080/00343404.2022.2090536
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English
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