Reconsidering actor roles in regional innovation systems: transformative industrial change in the forest-based bioeconomy
基于瑞典韦姆兰地区的案例，研究了区域创新系统中的行动者在推动森林产业向生物经济转型中的新角色，包括提供变革合法性、引导创新方向及争取社会认可。
This paper reconsiders the roles of actors in regional innovation systems in the context of transformative industrial change. Empirically, it draws on evidence from the Värmland region of Sweden, where regional innovation system actors, with partial funding from the Swedish Innovation Agency, are striving to build a bioeconomy upon the traditional forest-related industries. The main findings include that transformative industrial change adds a variety of responsibilities to regional actors, including the provision of change legitimacy, influencing the industry’s innovation directionality and achieving social acceptance for change. A combined perspective on sociotechnical transitions and path development in regional innovation systems theoretically informs the case.