Platforming for Path-Breaking? The Case of Regional Electromobility Initiatives in Germany

摘要: Platform policies, or “platforming,” are becoming increasingly popular in innovation research and practice, where they used for either starting regional knowledge-creating processes overcoming the closed nature of clusters that have, have been, developed. For both purposes, platforming focuses on injecting related variety into developmental processes, not only terms knowledge resources but also agents, activities, relations. But can such be to break away from an established technological, organizational, institutional path? Using a case-study approach electromobility initiative Germany, authors investigate potential unlocking path dependencies. The empirical insights their lead them conclude may contribute path-forming, necessarily path-breaking, at level.