Breaking Out from Lock-In

Breaking Out from Lock-In

Gert-Jan Hospers
ISBN13: 9781609604721|ISBN10: 1609604725|EISBN13: 9781609604738
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-472-1.ch408
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Hospers, Gert-Jan. "Breaking Out from Lock-In." Green Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 713-726. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-472-1.ch408

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Hospers, G. (2011). Breaking Out from Lock-In. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Green Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications (pp. 713-726). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-472-1.ch408

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Hospers, Gert-Jan. "Breaking Out from Lock-In." In Green Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 713-726. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-472-1.ch408

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Abstract

This chapter discusses strategies aimed at regional-economic structural change in the German Ruhrgebiet. The Ruhrgebiet used to be the largest industrial area in Western-Europe. After the crisis in the coal and steel industry the region pursued re-industrialisation policies in the 1960s and 1970s. These attempts were largely unsuccesful. Therefore, since the 1980s the involved actors gradually adopted regional innovation strategies. Thus, they were able to break out from the region’s lock-in situation. The re-orientation of the Ruhrgebiet towards innovation based on the industries’ expertise and past (e.g. environmental technology, energy and industrial tourism) is more successful than its earlier re-industrialisation attempts. Also for other old industrial areas in Europe this kind of place-based renewal might be the future.

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