1st Edition

Evolutionary Economic Geography Theoretical and Empirical Progress

Edited By Dieter Kogler Copyright 2016
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Evolutionary Economic Geography – Theoretical and Empirical Progress Dieter F. Kogler

1. Towards a Developmental Turn in Evolutionary Economic Geography? Ron Martin and Peter Sunley

2. Towards an Evolutionary Perspective on Regional Resilience Ron Boschma

3. Relatedness, Industrial Branching and Technological Cohesion in US Metropolitan Areas Jürgen Essletzbichler

4. Related Variety, Unrelated Variety and Technological Breakthroughs: An analysis of US State-Level Patenting Carolina Castaldi, Koen Frenken and Bart Los

5. The Role of External Linkages and Gatekeepers for the Renewal and Expansion of US Cities’ Knowledge Base, 1990–2004 Stefano Breschi and Camilla Lenzi

6. rKnowledge: The Spatial Diffusion and Adoption of rDNA Methods Maryann P. Feldman, Dieter F. Kogler and David L. Rigby

7. Interaction and Innovation across Different Sectors: Findings from Norwegian City-Regions Rune Dahl Fitjar and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

8. What Makes Clusters Decline? A Study on Disruption and Evolution of a High-Tech Cluster in Denmark Christian Richter Østergaard and Eunkyung Park

9. Path Renewal in Old Industrial Regions: Possibilities and Limitations for Regional Innovation Policy Lars Coenen, Jerker Moodysson and Hanna Martin

10. Education–Job (Mis)Match and Interregional Migration: Italian University Graduates’ Transition to Work Simona Iammarino and Elisabetta Marinelli

11. Knowledge Neighbourhoods: Urban Form and Evolutionary Economic Geography Gregory M. Spencer

Biography

Dieter F. Kogler is a Lecturer in Economic Geography at University College Dublin, Ireland. His research focus is on the geography of innovation and evolutionary economic geography, with a particular emphasis on knowledge production and diffusion, and processes related to technological change and innovation. He is the co-editor of Global and Regional Dynamics in Knowledge Flows and Innovation (with Van Egeraat and Cooke, Routledge, 2014), and Beyond Territory: Dynamic Geographies of Knowledge Creation, Diffusion, and Innovation (with Bathelt and Feldman, Routledge, 2011).