Strategic regional path development: industrial policy, place and the rhetoric of regionalisation
研究提出战略性区域路径发展概念，以半导体创新区为例，分析国家产业政策如何利用区域修辞实现工业能力建设，发现区域被工具化和修辞化，成功取决于多层级政策协调。
Amid geopolitical uncertainties, countries adopt new industrial policies to reshore strategic industries. Simultaneously, rising political discontent underscores the importance of intra-national industrial location. Within this context, we introduce the concept of strategic regional path development, a mechanism for (supra-)national industrial capacity-building based on top-down government interventions. Using a semiconductor innovation zone (Technum Quebec, innovation zone) as a case study, we find that while the innovation zone is driven by national objectives, the region is mobilised instrumentally (regional dynamics are secondary) and rhetorically (regional development narrative aligns actors). Ultimately, success depends on reconciling perspectives on the innovation zone’s purpose across policymaking levels and actors.