Cluster policies pervade all regions of the world to promote employment growth, innovation
and entrepreneurship. Yet, research mostly focuses on cluster economic performance, but …

Silicon alleys, hills, peaks, beaches, savannahs, islands, lagoons and gulfs have
mushroomed across cities of all continents, in the hope of fuelling profitable, innovative …

This paper examined the multi-scalar effects of different types of agglomeration economies,
namely, specialization, related variety, unrelated variety, and urbanization economies, on …

The development of non-core regions has attracted growing interest within the current
debates of economic geography, regional studies and spatial planning. The divergence …

A growing body of research is demonstrating a robust positive relationship between the
diversity of a city's foreign-born population in the USA and worker productivity. Other …

This paper examines the historical and recent efforts towards constructing an integrated
Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei global city-region, arguably the most politically privileged urban …

Economists have asked why certain places grow, prosper, and attain a higher standard of
living as early as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations in 1776. Smith was motivated to …

Over the past two decades or so, a new evolutionary perspective has developed within the
discipline of economic geography to become a notable paradigm of theoretical and …

全球化时代人口, 产业, 能源, 贸易等关键生产要素跨区域快速流动, 人地关系由静态走向动态,
由孤立化走向网络化, 地理尺度被充分放大, 标志着人地关系从区域性向全球性转变 …

Considering stagnating regional prosperity levels and growing inter-regional disparities in
many economies, this paper appeals for a renewed research agenda to deepen our …