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A question that has traditionally received much attention in the economic geography literature is why some regions are more capable of coping with shocks than others (Christopherson et al., 2010). With the start of the global crisis in 2008, this question took centre stage again, resulting in an extensive–and still ongoing–debate about regional economic resilience. 1 While there is still no consensus about its precise meaning, one outcome of the debate is that, at least in economic geography, resilience is considered to be more than the ability of a region to move back to a steady state, as suggested by the concepts of engineering and ecological resilience (Boschma, 2015). Instead, resilience is conceptualized as the ability of a regional economy to absorb and recover from a shock by undergoing structural, functional or organizational change (Martin and Sunley, 2015). This dynamic notion of resilience is called …