Supplementary Data_From local markets to global legitimacy A bottom-up perspective on technological innovation system’s dynamic

Column C specifies the respective year of each event. Column D provides descriptions for each event/process (n=240, excluding events from the structuration period). Columns E to L represent the eight TIS functions: Entrepreneurial activities, Knowledge development, Knowledge diffusion, Guidance of search, Market formation, Resource mobilization, Creation of legitimacy, and Materialization.

Columns M to Q indicate the geographical scale where each event took place: local, regional, national, EU, and global. The cause-effect analysis of the eight TIS functions is depicted through arrows in Columns E to L. If two functions are connected by an arrow, it signifies that the first function led to the realization of the second function.