ABSTRACT

The article deals with local approaches to innovation in two former industrial cities and explores how these can be explained. It focuses on local debates that have contributed to locally dominant narratives and the ideas embedded in these narratives about the possibilities and conditions for taking innovative paths. Conceptually, the authors pursue an interpretive approach that emphasizes that it is not (seemingly) given objective conditions that determine innovation, but rather the communication-based interpretation of these conditions in terms of possibilities and limits of action by local actors.

中文翻译：

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德国城市的创新条件：美因河畔奥芬巴赫和卡塞尔的案例对比

摘要

本文讨论了两个前工业城市的本地创新方法，并探讨了如何解释这些方法。它侧重于促成地方主导叙事的地方辩论，以及这些叙事中关于采取创新道路的可能性和条件的想法。从概念上讲，作者追求一种解释方法，强调不是（表面上）给定的客观条件决定创新，而是根据当地参与者行动的可能性和限制对这些条件进行基于交流的解释。