ABSTRACT

How to explain differences between cities regarding innovations will be addressed in this article from an interpretive perspective: actors have to develop an understanding of what constrains them and what they can achieve, how, and with whom. ‘External’ factors are therefore not explanatory variables in themselves. This means that actors have to develop an understanding about conditions for innovations in their city. This understanding gives meaning to action, and has to be developed through communicative interaction by being constantly reproduced or transformed during communicative interaction. Mechanisms involved in such communicative interaction will be shown and how they have to be applied to particular local narratives.

摘要

本文将从解释的角度讨论如何解释城市之间在创新方面的差异：参与者必须了解限制他们的因素以及他们可以实现的目标、如何实现以及与谁合作。因此，“外部”因素本身并不是解释变量。这意味着参与者必须了解他们所在城市的创新条件。这种理解赋予行动以意义，并且必须通过在交流互动中不断复制或转化，通过交流互动来发展。将展示这种交流互动中涉及的机制以及它们如何应用于特定的地方叙事。