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At a time of extraordinary challenges confronting the world, this
book analyses some of the profound changes occurring in the
development of cities and regions. It discusses the uncertainties
associated with the stalling of hyper-globalization and asks
whether this creates opportunities for resurgent regional economies
driven by local capabilities, resource efficiencies and domestic
production. Theory and evidence on socio-economic and environmental
transitions underway in many regions are brought together.
Implications of the shifting balance of global power towards
emerging economies in the East are explored, along with the
consequences of urbanization in the global South for politics and
democracy. Dilemmas surrounding migration are also discussed,
including whether incomers displace local workers and depress
wages, or bring benefits in the form of know-how, new technology
and investment. More integrative concepts of the region and
theories of regional development are analysed, recognising the role
of human capital, knowledge, innovation, finance, infrastructure
and institutions. This was originally published as a special issue
of Regional Studies.
Economic geographers increasingly consider the significance of
history in shaping the contemporary socio-economic landscape and
believe that experiences and competencies, acquired over time by
individuals and entities in particular localities, to a large
degree determine present configurations as well as future regional
trajectories. Attempts to trace, understand, and investigate the
pathways from past to present have given rise to the thriving and
exciting sub-field of Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG). EEG
highlights the important factors that initiate, inhibit, or
consolidate the contextual settings and relationships in which
regions and their respective agents, which comprise and shape
economic activity and social reproduction, change over time. It has
at its core the production and destruction of novelty in space, and
the links between innovation and regional economic fortunes. The
creation of knowledge, its movement and recombination within
different regional ensembles of economic agents and institutions
plays a critical role in the evolution of the space-economy. EEG
provides a framework to disentangle the complexity of technological
change and regional economic development based on a variety of
theoretical and methodological approaches. In only a short time,
EEG has established itself as a promising and rapidly evolving
research framework with its focus on the driving forces of regional
development across various scales and its attempt to translate
findings into public policy. This book advances the theoretical
foundations of EEG, and demonstrates how EEG utilises and
operationalises conceptual frameworks, both established and new.
Contributions also point to future research avenues and extensions
of EEG, attempting to build stronger ties between theory, empirical
evidence, and relevance to policy. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Regional Studies.
Economic geographers increasingly consider the significance of
history in shaping the contemporary socio-economic landscape and
believe that experiences and competencies, acquired over time by
individuals and entities in particular localities, to a large
degree determine present configurations as well as future regional
trajectories. Attempts to trace, understand, and investigate the
pathways from past to present have given rise to the thriving and
exciting sub-field of Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG). EEG
highlights the important factors that initiate, inhibit, or
consolidate the contextual settings and relationships in which
regions and their respective agents, which comprise and shape
economic activity and social reproduction, change over time. It has
at its core the production and destruction of novelty in space, and
the links between innovation and regional economic fortunes. The
creation of knowledge, its movement and recombination within
different regional ensembles of economic agents and institutions
plays a critical role in the evolution of the space-economy. EEG
provides a framework to disentangle the complexity of technological
change and regional economic development based on a variety of
theoretical and methodological approaches. In only a short time,
EEG has established itself as a promising and rapidly evolving
research framework with its focus on the driving forces of regional
development across various scales and its attempt to translate
findings into public policy. This book advances the theoretical
foundations of EEG, and demonstrates how EEG utilises and
operationalises conceptual frameworks, both established and new.
Contributions also point to future research avenues and extensions
of EEG, attempting to build stronger ties between theory, empirical
evidence, and relevance to policy. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Regional Studies.
Innovation, which in essence is the generation of knowledge and its
subsequent application in the marketplace in the form of novel
products and processes, has become the key concept in inquiries
concerning the contemporary knowledge based economy. Geography
plays a decisive role in the underlying processes that enable and
support knowledge formation and diffusion activities and specific
geographical characteristics are considered especially important in
this context. However, more recently, attention has focussed on
external knowledge inputs through innovation networks, and
increasingly the evolutionary character of the processes that lead
to knowledge creation and subsequent application in the marketplace
has been recognised. This book examines the intersection of the
dynamic processes of knowledge production and creative destruction.
The first three chapters all discuss the role of global innovation
networks in the context of territorial and/or sectoral dynamics,
while the following two chapters investigate the evolution of
regional or metropolitan knowledge economies. The final three
chapters adopt a knowledge base approach in order to provide
insight into the organisation of innovation networks and spatiality
of knowledge flows. This book was published in a special issue of
European Planning Studies.
At a time of extraordinary challenges confronting the world, this
book analyses some of the profound changes occurring in the
development of cities and regions. It discusses the uncertainties
associated with the stalling of hyper-globalization and asks
whether this creates opportunities for resurgent regional economies
driven by local capabilities, resource efficiencies and domestic
production. Theory and evidence on socio-economic and environmental
transitions underway in many regions are brought together.
Implications of the shifting balance of global power towards
emerging economies in the East are explored, along with the
consequences of urbanization in the global South for politics and
democracy. Dilemmas surrounding migration are also discussed,
including whether incomers displace local workers and depress
wages, or bring benefits in the form of know-how, new technology
and investment. More integrative concepts of the region and
theories of regional development are analysed, recognising the role
of human capital, knowledge, innovation, finance, infrastructure
and institutions. This was originally published as a special issue
of Regional Studies.
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