ABSTRACT

The emergence of new industries that are not closely related to existing regional paths remains an underexplained process in evolutionary economic geography. This paper responds to this gap through a case study of a maturing ecosystem of activity related to artificial intelligence in Montreal, Canada. Conceptually it brings together recent thinking in economic geography about agency in path development with complementary concepts from the literature on technological innovation systems. The empirical findings demonstrate the role of multiple agents in system-building and legitimation activities that have varied across pre-formative and formative phases of new path development in this analytical knowledge field.

摘要

与现有区域路径不密切相关的新产业的出现在演化经济地理学中仍然是一个解释不足的过程。本文通过对加拿大蒙特利尔与人工智能相关的成熟活动生态系统的案例研究来回应这一差距。从概念上讲，它将经济地理学中关于路径发展中的代理的最新思考与技术创新系统文献中的互补概念结合在一起。实证研究结果证明了多个代理在系统建设和合法化活动中的作用，这些活动在这个分析知识领域的新路径发展的前期和形成阶段有所不同。