New path creation in the artificial intelligence industry: regional preconditions, new actors and their collective actions, and policies
以蒙特利尔人工智能产业为例，研究区域前提条件、新行动者（如创新企业家和制度企业家）以及多层级政策如何共同塑造新产业路径的创造，对区域发展和产业政策研究者有参考价值。
This article contributes to the growing literature on a broader understanding of new industry path creation shaped by regional preconditions as well as multi-actor and multi-scale interventions. Using the case of Montreal’s artificial intelligence (AI) industry as its testing ground, the findings point to the significance of pre-existing industrial structures and knowledge base, as well as the importance of new innovative entrepreneurship, institutional entrepreneurship and coordinated multilevel policy initiatives directed at nurturing the new industries, and collective place-based leadership.