Society, Technology, and Region
Contributions from the Social Study of Technology to Economic Geography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4139670 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernhard Truffer (0000-0002-8635-0911, Innovation Research in Utility Sectors (Cirus), Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Seestrasse 79, 6047 Kastanienbaum, Switzerland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 966-985 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a39170 |
| OpenAlex | W2069603155 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 72 |
Recent debates in economic geography have emphasized the need for a more explicit analysis of innovation processes at a sectoral or technological level. A great deal of attention has furthermore been devoted to connect the internal disciplinary debate with the wider discourse of the social sciences that deal with economic development in general and with the role of innovation in particular. In the present paper I argue that the field of the social study of technology (SST) can inspire research in economic geography in important respects: SST research has an explicit focus on the genesis of sociotechnical configurations; it has developed sector-related and technology-related multilevel theories of sociotechnical change; it has a strong emphasis on innovation dynamics and sector transformations; and finally, it has a focus on strategic planning in multiactor settings and thus favors foresight and participatory planning approaches in science, technology, and innovation policy. SST-inspired research could thus be an interesting partner for those approaches within economic geography that share some ontological starting positions with regard to actors, the role of institutions, and a revolutionary and multilevel analysis of sociotechnical transformation processes
Citizen journalism · Discipline · Economic geography · Economics · Futures studies · Geography · Knowledge management · Management science · Political science · Regional science · Social science · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · Computer Science · Innovation and Knowledge Management · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
Strategic decision making in infrastructure sectors
Technological innovation systems and the multi-level perspective
Innovation studies and sustainability transitions
Toward a spatial perspective on sustainability transitions
Local Demonstrations for Global Transitions—Dynamics across Governance Levels Fostering Socio-Technical Regime Change Towards Sustainability
Conceptualizing leapfrogging with spatially coupled innovation systems
The Local Sources of Market Formation
Places and Spaces of Sustainability Transitions
Shifting demand conditions and green regional industrial path development
Behind the scenes of industrial change – Change agency and system function linkages
The role of geographical scales in sustainability transitions
The green economy and post‐growth regimes
The green economy, sustainability transitions and transition regions
The contingency of medicare physician spending on population densities and sizes
Socio-technical regimes and sustainability transitions
Small technologies, big change
Assembling place-based transitions
Building a green economy? Sustainability transitions in the UK building sector
Sustainability transitions and policy dismantling
Green energy clusters and socio-technical transitions
Reconsidering actor roles in regional innovation systems
Future green economies and regional development
Environmental Innovation and Sustainability Transitions in Regional Studies
Innovation and Policy for Bioenergy in the UK
The role of borderlands in the energy transition
Policy learning and sustainable urban transitions
Digital Transition by Covid‐19 Pandemic? The German Food Online Retail
Thinking complex interconnections
Mobile ‘green’ design knowledge
Transnational linkages in sustainability experiments
A practice approach to study the spatial dimensions of the energy transition
Understanding Transition—Periphery Dynamics
Exploring the Economic Geographies of Sustainability Transitions
The geography of sustainability transitions
Human geography and socio-technical transition studies
Practice and Economic Geography
Rethinking Sociotechnical Transitions and Green Entrepreneurship
Grasping transformative regional development - Exploring intersections between industrial paths and sustainability transitions
Niche entrepreneurs in urban systems integration
Conceptualizing the Political Ecology of Urban Infrastructures
The multiple roles of demand in new regional industrial path development
Food as Software
Managing technology in society
Networks of Power
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
Exploring the Black Box
The dynamics of transitions in socio-technical systems
Evolutionary economics and economic geography
Innovation systems
Technical change and economic theory
The Social construction of technological systems
Technopoles of the World
Economic Action and Social Structure
An instrument for interactive setting development goals of a socio-environmental system
Evolutionary policies for sustainable development
Sustainability’ in ecological economics, ecology and livelihoods
The exaggerated death of geography
A Perspective of Economic Geography
User-led Innovation Processes
What About People in Regional Science
Learning in Projects, Remembering in Networks
Institutions, Power and Space
Spaces and scales of innovation
The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts
The Rise of Membrane Technology
Comparing approaches to systems of innovation
Innovation and Urban Regions as National and International Nodes for the Transfer and Sharing of Knowledge
Territorial Innovation Models
Fuzzy Concepts, Scanty Evidence, Policy Distance
The Learning Region
Local social knowledge management
A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice
Pandora's hope
More Work For Mother
Regions, Globalization, Development
Toward a relational economic geography
Economic geography
Why is economic geography not an evolutionary science? Towards an evolutionary economic geography
Tacit knowledge and the economic geography of context, or The undefinable tacitness of being (there)
Outsider Initiatives in the Reconstruction of the Car
Constructive Technology Assessment and Technology Dynamics
Common Ground? Prospects for Integrating the Economic Geography of Geographers and Economists
Users as Agents of Technological Change
Learning and Adaptation in Decentralised Business Networks
Introduction
Technology, Power, and Space-The Means and Ends of Geographies of Technology
A Green Industrial Revolution? Sustainable Technological Innovation in a Global Age
Regional Systems of Innovation
The Electric Vehicle Industry and Local Economic Development
The Elusive Concept of Localization Economies
The Innovative Milieus Approach
Economic Sociologies in Space
An Essay on Framing and Overflowing
The Making of an Industry
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 42 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 41 |