The emergence of new industrial development paths is an important topic in economic
geography. However, current perspectives emphasizing the constraining forces of historical …

abstract By means of a unique longitudinal database with information on all industrial plants
and employees in the Swedish economy, this article analyzes how geographic proximity …

The rise of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) as a promising workshop of the “world factory” in
China has attributed to the export-oriented industrialization driven by foreign direct …

Evolutionary economic geography (EEG) indicates that regional industrial development is
path dependent. The empirical studies in EEG however have not paid sufficient attention to …

Smart specialisation features prominently in the European regional policy context. This
paper discusses how the configuration of the regional institutional framework affects smart …

This article explores the historic–geographic evolution of contemporary craft production, with
sensitivity to materiality of labor process, product design, and accompanying place …

The study of regional clusters is a core research topic in economic geography (Markusen,
1996; Martin & Sunley, 2003; Maskell, 2001). Starting from research on industrial districts …

The industrial district and cluster literature has generated an extraordinary quantity of
articles, debates and topics for discussion, and encompasses one of the most vibrant lines of …

Access to global innovation networks (GINs) has been unequal across the regions of the
world. While certain regions are considered knowledge hubs in GINs, others still remain …

The paper assesses the role for innovation of one aspect which has been generally
overlooked by evolutionary economic geography: context. It analyses how context shapes …