ABSTRACT

The digitalization of cultural heritage is crucial for revamping the creative and cultural sectors during a period of stagnation. This work is about the revitalization of the Kyoto kimono cluster through digitalization, which initiated a new exaptive development path for a declining cluster. A growing community of economic geographers and regional scientists has begun to discuss regional path development beyond related and unrelated diversification. We focus on path renewal, which involves major change of a path into a new direction based on new technologies or organizational innovations. Existing knowledge and skills in a region are combined in new ways and may be linked to relevant extra-regional knowledge to provide new knowledge, enabling innovation and entrepreneurship in the region. The process encompasses the intentional and serendipitous actions of individual entrepreneurs (firm-level) and networks of systemic configurations (system-level). A narrative approach is used to capture the path renewal dynamics in the Kyoto kimono cluster.

摘要

文化遗产的数字化对于在停滞时期改造创意和文化部门至关重要。这项工作是关于通过数字化振兴京都和服集群，为衰落的集群开辟了一条新的发展路径。越来越多的经济地理学家和区域科学家已经开始讨论超越相关和不相关多样化的区域路径发展。我们专注于路径更新，这涉及基于新技术或组织创新的路径向新方向的重大改变。一个地区的现有知识和技能以新的方式结合起来，并可能与相关的地区外知识联系起来，以提供新知识，促进该地区的创新和创业。该过程包括个体企业家（公司层面）和系统配置网络（系统层面）的有意和偶然的行为。使用叙事方法来捕捉京都和服集群中的路径更新动态。