The role of system-building agency in regional path creation: insights from the emergence of artificial intelligence in Montreal
通过蒙特利尔人工智能案例，研究系统构建和合法化活动如何推动与现有路径无关的新产业出现，对理解区域路径创造机制有参考价值。
The emergence of new industries that are not closely related to existing regional paths remains an underexplained process in evolutionary economic geography. This paper responds to this gap through a case study of a maturing ecosystem of activity related to artificial intelligence in Montreal, Canada. Conceptually it brings together recent thinking in economic geography about agency in path development with complementary concepts from the literature on technological innovation systems. The empirical findings demonstrate the role of multiple agents in system-building and legitimation activities that have varied across pre-formative and formative phases of new path development in this analytical knowledge field.