Geographies of governance for sustainable and inclusive socio-technical transformations

在威尔士（英国）和台湾，可持续环境和经济转型的一个关键挑战不仅仅是向新的社会技术制度的转变，而是确保成本、风险和收益的公平分配。这些文献强调了由于规划和环境治理方面的持续权力失衡而导致的城乡地区之间和内部的社会空间不公正问题，以及数字化促进适应性规划和包容性社会创新潜力的能力和公平性问题。与此同时，我们看到各国在面临区域、技术和地缘政治变化的情况下努力解决生产力问题，这就需要更深入地了解创业生态系统和路径创造是如何由个体创业代理人、机会空间、区域关系和数字平台塑造的。​这里寻求的资金旨在通过三个不同的项目阶段促进在线和面对面的合作：细化与每个主题和主题相关的未来研究问题和议程；建立利益相关者网络，并确定案例研究，使我们能够进行试点研究，并最大限度地提高公众参与和社会影响；提供一个论坛，就具体的研究成果进行合作和传播；并通过获得更多资金为未来的合作奠定基础。我们的合作将使我们能够从这些不同背景下的案例研究中共同学习；以及各种学术、政策和民间社会利益相关者之间的方法和理论交叉授粉。我们寻求在现有合作和研究项目的基础上，巩固和促进新的合作、研究议程和案例研究，从而增强我们机构和研究能力之间的协同效应。同时，这项合作还将把学者与两国的决策者、实践者、民间社会组织和企业家联系起来。这次合作对威尔士和台湾的当代问题的跨国理论建设和调查也有重要的国内和国际意义。具体来说，它与NSTC优先领域在以下方面保持一致：(a)可持续和包容性的城市治理和基础设施；(b)数字化转型中的城市；(c)农村和周边城市主义，以及社会公正的城市复原力、空间和社会排斥。我们还参与了至少三个ESRC优先领域：气候变化和局部环境影响与正义；加强对民主和治理能力的信任；经济生活中的生产力和公平与企业家精神和数字技术有关。

A key challenge of sustainable environmental and economic transitions in both Wales (UK) and Taiwan is not just that of shifting to new socio-technical regimes, but ensuring the costs, risks and benefits are fairly distributed. The literature highlights problems of socio-spatial injustice between and within rural and urban areas produced through ongoing power imbalances in planning and environmental governance, and problems of capacity and equity regarding the potential of digitalisation to contribute to adaptive planning and inclusive social innovation. At the same we see states struggle with issues of productivity in the face of regional, technological and geo-political shifts, producing the need for deeper understandings of how entrepreneurial ecosystems and path creation are shaped by individual entrepreneurial agents, opportunity spaces, regional relations and digital platforms. Through this collaboration between 14 established and early career academics from Cardiff University (Wales, UK) and National Taipei University (NTPU, Taiwan) we will shape and contribute to these cutting edge international academic debates, and issues of UK and Taiwanese national priority in relation to urban and regional governance, economy and planning for sustainability. The funding sought here aims to facilitate online and in-person collaboration through three distinct project phases that will: refine future research questions and agendas relating to each theme and topic; build stakeholder networks and identify case studies that will enable us to undertake pilot research and maximise the extent of our public engagement and societal impact; provide a forum to collaborate on and disseminate specific research outputs; and set the groundwork of future collaboration by securing further funding. Our collaborations will enable shared learning from case studies in these different contexts; and methodological and theoretical cross-pollination between a diverse range of academic, policy and civil society stakeholders. We seek to build upon existing collaborations and research projects, and consolidate and foster new collaborations, research agendas and case studies, thus enhancing synergies between our institutions and research capacities. At the same time, the collaboration will additionally connect scholars with policy makers, practitioners, civil society organisations and entrepreneurs in the two countries. This collaboration also has national and international significance due its contribution to trans-national theory building and investigation of contemporary issues relevant to both Wales and Taiwan. Specifically it aligns with NSTC Priority Areas in relation to (a) sustainable and Inclusive urban governance and infrastructure; (b) cities in digital transformation; (c) rural and peripheral urbanism, and socially-just urban resilience, spatial and social exclusion. We also engage with at least three ESRC priority areas of climate change and localised environmental impacts and justice; building greater trust in democracy and governing capacity; and productivity and fairness in economic life in relation to entrepreneurialism and digital technologies.