Darius Ornston
Biographic Data
| ID | 1474913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darius Ornston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darius |
| FAMILY NAME | Ornston |
| SIGNATURE | ORNSTON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2991-7894 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Mission Green: Defense, Decarbonization, and the Politics of Transformative Mission‐Oriented Innovation Policy
The urgency of decarbonization has generated increasing interest in using mission-oriented innovation policies to achieve net-zero emissions. An energy transformation, however, requires managing a much more complex portfolio of supply- and demand-side initiatives than traditional, “linear” missions. “Transformative” innovation policy thus poses a formidable administrative and political challenge, particularly for large, federal, liberal market ec…
Sector connectors, specialists and scrappers: How cities use civic capital to compete in high-technology markets
This article uses three cities in the same Canadian province (Ontario): Toronto, Ottawa and Waterloo, to examine how regions compete in high-technology markets. We find that regions use civic capital to leverage new, technological windows of opportunity, but they do so in very different ways. Tracing Toronto’s evolution from a marketing hub for foreign multinationals into a centre for entrepreneurship, we illustrate how weak ties and cross-sector…
Semi-Peripheral Pathways to High-Technology Markets: How Organizational Origins Shape Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Success story or tall tale? Discursive cooperation and economic restructuring in Iceland
Follow the science: The European public health community confronts the first wave of the Covid‐19 pandemic
This paper argues that “following the science” is not always the best strategy. It does so by examining the first phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic in three countries: Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden. All three countries possessed highly respected infectious disease agencies with wide stakeholder involvement. Despite this, Danish, Dutch, and Swedish public health agencies underplayed the threat of the COVID‐19 virus, …
On Mariana Mazzucato's Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, London, Allen Lane, 2021
Correspondence: [email protected] Mariana Mazzucato builds a credible case for an expanded role of government and regulation in the purposeful shaping of technological innovation and backs up her case with cogent examples. She joins this to an emerging awareness of the problems that were built into the major innovations of the third industrial revolution by the market. Those innovations, including the basic design of the Internet, we now know, ha…
How Stories Shape Regional Development: Collective Narratives and High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Waterloo, Canada
The Waterloo region in Canada has emerged as an unlikely competitor in high-technology markets, challenging theories based on path dependency, population density, anchor firms, and military spending. While theorists and residents attribute the rise of high-technology entrepreneurship to cooperation, evidence of collaboration is sparse. This article resolves this puzzle by explaining how ideas can coordinate action in loosely coupled systems. Dens…
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The politics of partial success: Fostering Innovation in Innovation Policy in an Era of Heightened Public Scrutiny
Policymakers have adapted to the challenge of rapid, innovation-based competition by using 'Schumpeterian development agencies' (SDAs) to foster continuous, radical experimentation. These peripheral agencies developed new policy instruments and business models that would transform their national economies when scaled by mainstream actors. In this article, we argue that this model is less likely to succeed in an increasingly politicized environmen…
The Developmental State in Developed Societies: Power, Partnership, and Divergent Patterns of Intervention in France and Finland
Conceptualizing Cooperation: Coordination and Concertation as Two Logics of Collective Action
Despite recognizing that institutionalized cooperation is central to both business and politics in many advanced, industrialized economies, scholars remain divided over the origins, character, and future of “non-liberal” capitalism. This article seeks to clarify these debates by arguing that different processes of cooperation are governed by distinct logics of collective action and associated with different dynamics of collaboration. For example,…
When the High Road Becomes the Low Road: The Limits of High-Technology Competition inFinland
Globalization has generated increasing interest in technology-intensive industries as a way to sustain national economic competitiveness. High-technology growth is often conceptualized as a "high road" to prosperity, more amenable to private-public, industry-labor, and interfirm cooperation than tax, regulatory, or cost competitive strategies. While specialization in technology-intensive industries does deliver several benefits, this article uses…
The Revolutionary Power of Peripheral Agencies: Explaining Radical Policy Innovation in Finland and Israel
This article challenges the long-standing emphasis in the developmental state literature on the powerful pilot agency as an essential component of industrialization. Although a pilot agency may be able to facilitate growth in mature industries, we argue that policy makers seeking to promote rapid innovation-based competition must instead rely on continuous, radical policy innovation. We argue that this kind of experimentation is more likely to oc…
Creative Corporatism: The Politics of High-Technology Competition in Nordic Europe
This article documents and explains the surprising capacity of several Continental European countries to adapt to rapid, innovation-based competition. Critics and proponents alike suggest that these economies rely on incremental upmarket movement in low- and medium-technology industries. Several historically low-technology Nordic countries, however, have recently assumed leading positions in industries such as biotechnology, software, and telecom…
Old Ideas and New Investments: Divergent Pathways to a Knowledge Economy in Denmark and Finland
This article identifies and explains two very different pathways to a knowledge economy, based on investment in training in Denmark and research in Finland. The fact that these ostensibly similar countries have pursued such divergent strategies cannot be explained using the established literature on employer organization, labor power resources, and small states. This article develops and resolves this puzzle by focusing on the interaction among o…
Reorganising adjustment: Finland's emergence as a high technology leader
As attention has shifted to the topic of change in organised economies, Finland represents a valuable case study. The nation's leap from paper producer to high technology leader represents a unique opportunity to study restructuring within the confines of an allegedly incremental organised economy. To date, Finland's transformation has been interpreted as a product of sweeping liberal reforms in finance and corporate governance. This article, how…
Freud's Conception is Different from Strachey's
The Revolutionary Power of Peripheral Agencies: Explaining Radical Policy Innovation in Finland and Israel
This article challenges the long-standing emphasis in the developmental state literature on the powerful pilot agency as an essential component of industrialization. Although a pilot agency may be able to facilitate growth in mature industries, we argue that policy makers seeking to promote rapid innovation-based competition must instead rely on continuous, radical policy innovation. We argue that this kind of experimentation is more likely to oc…
Creative Corporatism: The Politics of High-Technology Competition in Nordic Europe
This article documents and explains the surprising capacity of several Continental European countries to adapt to rapid, innovation-based competition. Critics and proponents alike suggest that these economies rely on incremental upmarket movement in low- and medium-technology industries. Several historically low-technology Nordic countries, however, have recently assumed leading positions in industries such as biotechnology, software, and telecom…
Freud's Conception is Different from Strachey's
The politics of partial success: Fostering Innovation in Innovation Policy in an Era of Heightened Public Scrutiny
Policymakers have adapted to the challenge of rapid, innovation-based competition by using 'Schumpeterian development agencies' (SDAs) to foster continuous, radical experimentation. These peripheral agencies developed new policy instruments and business models that would transform their national economies when scaled by mainstream actors. In this article, we argue that this model is less likely to succeed in an increasingly politicized environmen…
Conceptualizing Cooperation: Coordination and Concertation as Two Logics of Collective Action
Despite recognizing that institutionalized cooperation is central to both business and politics in many advanced, industrialized economies, scholars remain divided over the origins, character, and future of “non-liberal” capitalism. This article seeks to clarify these debates by arguing that different processes of cooperation are governed by distinct logics of collective action and associated with different dynamics of collaboration. For example,…
The Developmental State in Developed Societies: Power, Partnership, and Divergent Patterns of Intervention in France and Finland
Reorganising adjustment: Finland's emergence as a high technology leader
As attention has shifted to the topic of change in organised economies, Finland represents a valuable case study. The nation's leap from paper producer to high technology leader represents a unique opportunity to study restructuring within the confines of an allegedly incremental organised economy. To date, Finland's transformation has been interpreted as a product of sweeping liberal reforms in finance and corporate governance. This article, how…
When the High Road Becomes the Low Road: The Limits of High-Technology Competition inFinland
Globalization has generated increasing interest in technology-intensive industries as a way to sustain national economic competitiveness. High-technology growth is often conceptualized as a "high road" to prosperity, more amenable to private-public, industry-labor, and interfirm cooperation than tax, regulatory, or cost competitive strategies. While specialization in technology-intensive industries does deliver several benefits, this article uses…
How Stories Shape Regional Development: Collective Narratives and High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Waterloo, Canada
The Waterloo region in Canada has emerged as an unlikely competitor in high-technology markets, challenging theories based on path dependency, population density, anchor firms, and military spending. While theorists and residents attribute the rise of high-technology entrepreneurship to cooperation, evidence of collaboration is sparse. This article resolves this puzzle by explaining how ideas can coordinate action in loosely coupled systems. Dens…
Old Ideas and New Investments: Divergent Pathways to a Knowledge Economy in Denmark and Finland
This article identifies and explains two very different pathways to a knowledge economy, based on investment in training in Denmark and research in Finland. The fact that these ostensibly similar countries have pursued such divergent strategies cannot be explained using the established literature on employer organization, labor power resources, and small states. This article develops and resolves this puzzle by focusing on the interaction among o…
On Mariana Mazzucato's Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, London, Allen Lane, 2021
Correspondence: [email protected] Mariana Mazzucato builds a credible case for an expanded role of government and regulation in the purposeful shaping of technological innovation and backs up her case with cogent examples. She joins this to an emerging awareness of the problems that were built into the major innovations of the third industrial revolution by the market. Those innovations, including the basic design of the Internet, we now know, ha…
Sector connectors, specialists and scrappers: How cities use civic capital to compete in high-technology markets
This article uses three cities in the same Canadian province (Ontario): Toronto, Ottawa and Waterloo, to examine how regions compete in high-technology markets. We find that regions use civic capital to leverage new, technological windows of opportunity, but they do so in very different ways. Tracing Toronto’s evolution from a marketing hub for foreign multinationals into a centre for entrepreneurship, we illustrate how weak ties and cross-sector…
Semi-Peripheral Pathways to High-Technology Markets: How Organizational Origins Shape Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Freud's Conception is Different from Strachey's
Reorganising adjustment: Finland's emergence as a high technology leader
As attention has shifted to the topic of change in organised economies, Finland represents a valuable case study. The nation's leap from paper producer to high technology leader represents a unique opportunity to study restructuring within the confines of an allegedly incremental organised economy. To date, Finland's transformation has been interpreted as a product of sweeping liberal reforms in finance and corporate governance. This article, how…
Old Ideas and New Investments: Divergent Pathways to a Knowledge Economy in Denmark and Finland
This article identifies and explains two very different pathways to a knowledge economy, based on investment in training in Denmark and research in Finland. The fact that these ostensibly similar countries have pursued such divergent strategies cannot be explained using the established literature on employer organization, labor power resources, and small states. This article develops and resolves this puzzle by focusing on the interaction among o…
The Revolutionary Power of Peripheral Agencies: Explaining Radical Policy Innovation in Finland and Israel
This article challenges the long-standing emphasis in the developmental state literature on the powerful pilot agency as an essential component of industrialization. Although a pilot agency may be able to facilitate growth in mature industries, we argue that policy makers seeking to promote rapid innovation-based competition must instead rely on continuous, radical policy innovation. We argue that this kind of experimentation is more likely to oc…
Creative Corporatism: The Politics of High-Technology Competition in Nordic Europe
This article documents and explains the surprising capacity of several Continental European countries to adapt to rapid, innovation-based competition. Critics and proponents alike suggest that these economies rely on incremental upmarket movement in low- and medium-technology industries. Several historically low-technology Nordic countries, however, have recently assumed leading positions in industries such as biotechnology, software, and telecom…
When the High Road Becomes the Low Road: The Limits of High-Technology Competition inFinland
Globalization has generated increasing interest in technology-intensive industries as a way to sustain national economic competitiveness. High-technology growth is often conceptualized as a "high road" to prosperity, more amenable to private-public, industry-labor, and interfirm cooperation than tax, regulatory, or cost competitive strategies. While specialization in technology-intensive industries does deliver several benefits, this article uses…
Conceptualizing Cooperation: Coordination and Concertation as Two Logics of Collective Action
Despite recognizing that institutionalized cooperation is central to both business and politics in many advanced, industrialized economies, scholars remain divided over the origins, character, and future of “non-liberal” capitalism. This article seeks to clarify these debates by arguing that different processes of cooperation are governed by distinct logics of collective action and associated with different dynamics of collaboration. For example,…
The Developmental State in Developed Societies: Power, Partnership, and Divergent Patterns of Intervention in France and Finland
Books by Our Readers
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The politics of partial success: Fostering Innovation in Innovation Policy in an Era of Heightened Public Scrutiny
Policymakers have adapted to the challenge of rapid, innovation-based competition by using 'Schumpeterian development agencies' (SDAs) to foster continuous, radical experimentation. These peripheral agencies developed new policy instruments and business models that would transform their national economies when scaled by mainstream actors. In this article, we argue that this model is less likely to succeed in an increasingly politicized environmen…
How Stories Shape Regional Development: Collective Narratives and High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Waterloo, Canada
The Waterloo region in Canada has emerged as an unlikely competitor in high-technology markets, challenging theories based on path dependency, population density, anchor firms, and military spending. While theorists and residents attribute the rise of high-technology entrepreneurship to cooperation, evidence of collaboration is sparse. This article resolves this puzzle by explaining how ideas can coordinate action in loosely coupled systems. Dens…
On Mariana Mazzucato's Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, London, Allen Lane, 2021
Correspondence: [email protected] Mariana Mazzucato builds a credible case for an expanded role of government and regulation in the purposeful shaping of technological innovation and backs up her case with cogent examples. She joins this to an emerging awareness of the problems that were built into the major innovations of the third industrial revolution by the market. Those innovations, including the basic design of the Internet, we now know, ha…
Follow the science: The European public health community confronts the first wave of the Covid‐19 pandemic
This paper argues that “following the science” is not always the best strategy. It does so by examining the first phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic in three countries: Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden. All three countries possessed highly respected infectious disease agencies with wide stakeholder involvement. Despite this, Danish, Dutch, and Swedish public health agencies underplayed the threat of the COVID‐19 virus, …
Sector connectors, specialists and scrappers: How cities use civic capital to compete in high-technology markets
This article uses three cities in the same Canadian province (Ontario): Toronto, Ottawa and Waterloo, to examine how regions compete in high-technology markets. We find that regions use civic capital to leverage new, technological windows of opportunity, but they do so in very different ways. Tracing Toronto’s evolution from a marketing hub for foreign multinationals into a centre for entrepreneurship, we illustrate how weak ties and cross-sector…
Semi-Peripheral Pathways to High-Technology Markets: How Organizational Origins Shape Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Success story or tall tale? Discursive cooperation and economic restructuring in Iceland
Mission Green: Defense, Decarbonization, and the Politics of Transformative Mission‐Oriented Innovation Policy
The urgency of decarbonization has generated increasing interest in using mission-oriented innovation policies to achieve net-zero emissions. An energy transformation, however, requires managing a much more complex portfolio of supply- and demand-side initiatives than traditional, “linear” missions. “Transformative” innovation policy thus poses a formidable administrative and political challenge, particularly for large, federal, liberal market ec…
Economics (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Politics (9 works) · Economic system (7 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economy (5 works) · Innovation Policy and RD (5 works) · Political economy (5 works)