The geographical understanding of directionality in the literature on mission-oriented innovation systems is still underdeveloped. Therefore, this article reflects on whether the allocation of funding for R&D activities to different places can direct innovation systems in space. A place-based approach to the allocation of funding and its effects on innovation systems is developed to analyze how the German national government allocates funding to the national innovation system for hydrogen technologies. The results show that the allocation of funding considers place-based characteristics and has a range of systemic outcomes, encompassing the clustering of research activities, the specialization of certain places in certain market segments, and the increase of the spatial reach of the national innovation system by integrating left behind places. However, the funding contributes insufficiently to market formation at the local and regional scale, and is contested due to existing alternative routes that the innovation system could take.

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基于地点的研发资金分配：指导德国太空氢技术创新体系


关于以任务为导向的创新系统的文献中对方向性的地理理解仍然不发达。因此，本文思考研发活动经费的异地配置是否能够引导空间创新系统。开发了一种基于地点的资金分配方法及其对创新系统的影响，以分析德国国家政府如何向国家氢技术创新系统分配资金。结果表明，资金分配考虑了地域特征，并具有一系列系统性成果，包括研究活动的集聚、某些细分市场中某些地方的专业化以及国家创新体系空间范围的扩大通过整合落后地区。然而，这些资金对地方和区域规模的市场形成贡献不足，并且由于创新系统可以采取的现有替代路线而受到争议。