Although scholars and practitioners increasingly highlight the role of individuals in initiating socio‐spatial change processes in regional development, there is still little conceptual and empirical knowledge concerning this phenomenon. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to gain a deeper theoretical understanding of entrepreneurial individuals in local and regional governance and to provide a more comprehensive framework for investigating individual agency and socio‐spatial change. In concepts of local and regional governance, the role of individuals has been overshadowed by the focus on institutional and organizational structures. Policy and institutional entrepreneurship literature stresses the importance of individual capabilities for identifying windows of opportunity and promoting policy and institutional change. However, it reveals some shortcomings concerning the influence of entrepreneurial individuals in governance itself. By combining both strands of literature, the concept of governance entrepreneurship is introduced here. It accentuates the role of entrepreneurial individuals in initiating change in local and regional governance by establishing or transforming actor constellations, interaction modes, or decision‐making territories. Finally, the interrelatedness of the concepts of institutional, policy, and governance entrepreneurship is discussed in order to gain a deeper understanding of these different types of transformative agency.

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个体代理与区域发展中的社会空间变化：治理企业家精神的概念化

尽管学者和实践者越来越强调个人在启动区域发展中的社会空间变化过程中的作用，但是关于这一现象的概念和经验知识仍然很少。因此，本文的目的是获得对企业家个人在地方和区域治理中的更深层次的理论理解，并为调查个人代理和社会空间变化提供更全面的框架。在地方和区域治理的概念中，对机构和组织结构的关注已使个人的作用黯然失色。政策和机构企业家精神文献强调了个人能力的重要性，这些能力对于确定机会窗口以及促进政策和机构变革具有重要意义。然而，它揭示了关于企业家个人在治理本身中的影响的一些缺陷。通过结合这两方面的文献，这里介绍了治理企业家精神的概念。它通过建立或改变参与者的星座，互动模式或决策领地，来强调企业家个人在引发地方和区域治理变革中的作用。最后，讨论了制度，政策和治理企业家精神的概念之间的相互联系，以便对这些不同类型的变革性代理机构有更深入的了解。它通过建立或改变参与者的星座，互动模式或决策领地，来强调企业家个人在引发地方和区域治理变革中的作用。最后，讨论了制度，政策和治理企业家精神的概念之间的相互联系，以便对这些不同类型的变革性代理机构有更深入的了解。它通过建立或改变参与者的星座，互动模式或决策领地，来强调企业家个人在引发地方和区域治理变革中的作用。最后，讨论了制度，政策和治理企业家精神的概念之间的相互联系，以便对这些不同类型的变革性代理机构有更深入的了解。