The role of exogenous sources of new path development has been underplayed in the
literature on regional industrial change so far. The aim of this article is to explore in a …

Over the last years, models of path dependent regional industrial development have come to
exercise increasing influence over academic work in economic geography, innovation …

There is widespread consensus in academic and policy debates that knowledge and
innovation are eminently important for securing competitiveness, dynamic growth and …

The notion of path dependent regional industrial development has recently received
increasing attention in economic geography, innovation studies and related fields. A core …

Over the past 20 years, the innovation system approach has significantly enhanced our
understanding of the innovation process, stressing its non-linear, systemic, interactive and …

This chapter analyses opportunities and challenges for regional innovation policies
designed to promote new path development in different types of regional innovation systems …

One of the recent contributions of the work by evolutionary economic geographers is the
importance attributed to the concept of relatedness between industries highlighting the need …

In recent years, an embryo of a new approach to regional economic development has been
advanced. This strand of literature is based on a systemic approach to innovations and …

The aim of this article is to explore how new industrial paths emerge and grow in peripheral
regional economies. Current conceptualizations of regional path development are based on …

Abstract Since the Industrial Revolution the cyclical processes of rise and fall of regional
economies have been accelerating. Many of the specific problems of the falling part of …