New path creation processes are a vital component of regional economic development. This
paper establishes a behavioural framework to examine and understand such processes. It is …

The study of regional growth paths is a key theme in economic geography and of elemental
interest for policy makers concerned with regional development. Evolutionary theory …

The study of regional growth paths is a key theme in economic geography and of elemental
interest for regional development. This paper addresses the interplay between path …

The emergence of new industries that are not closely related to existing regional paths
remains an underexplained process in evolutionary economic geography. This paper …

In the literature on regional industrial path development, the path-as-process perspective
conceptualizes the emergence, evolution, transformation, and decline of regional industries …

Human agency has become a core topic in economic geography complementing traditional,
structural approaches to explain regional development. This paper contributes firstly with a …

Designing and implementing regional development strategies poses serious challenges.
Part of the problem may be that the traditional approach to strategy, a linear process of …

In the path development literature, how agents shape innovation systems has attracted
growing interest. However, the concept of such system-level agency suffers from an unclear …

Although the assertion that 'history matters' has come to be coupled frequently with
references to the concept of path dependence, the precise meaning of the latter–and hence …

Since Paul David first published his economic histories of path-dependent innovation, the
subject has exerted fascination upon scholars of innovation and technological change and …