How entrepreneurial ecosystems take form: Evidence from social impact initiatives in Seattle

TA Thompson, JM Purdy… - Strategic …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Research Summary: This research uses insights from field theory to explore the early
moments of how entrepreneurial ecosystems form through everyday interactions. We …

[PDF][PDF] Separate worlds? Explaining the current wave of regional economic polarization

M Storper - Spatial Transformations, 2018 - library.oapen.org
Over the past 40 years, globalization has spread development to many parts of the world.
But within countries, development has become more uneven, a phenomenon known as …

Developing difference: Social organization and the rise of the auto industries of South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina

NW Biggart, MF Guillén - The Sociology of Economic Life, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter examines how South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina attempted to
develop automobile assembly and component manufacturing industries during the post …

Researcher understanding of food innovations in Nordic and Southern European countries: A systematic literature review

T Savino, S Testa, AM Petruzzelli - Trends in food science & technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Background The capability of agro-food firms to innovate positively influences their profits
and growth. Accordingly, the literature has tried to comprehend innovation phenomena …

Alternative food networks

A Corsi, F Barbera, E Dansero, C Peano - McMillan, London, 2018 - Springer
Alessandro Corsi is an Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Department of
Economics and Statistics “S. Cognetti de Martiis” of the University of Torino, Italy. He has …

From being there to being aware: Confronting geographical and sociological imaginations of copresence

G Grabher, A Melchior, B Schiemer… - … and Planning A …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In economic geography, the notion of copresence has been at the very center of the
research agenda for decades. The elaboration of the benefits of colocation and physical …

[HTML][HTML] Green investment and coordination failure: an investors' perspective

J Mielke, GA Steudle - Ecological Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
To achieve the goal of keeping global warming well below 2° C, private investors have to
shift capital from brown to green infrastructures and technologies and provide additional …

From success to failure, the disappearance of clusters: A study of a Norwegian boat-building cluster

A Isaksen - Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The article analyses the decline and disappearance of regional clusters, with an empirical
investigation of why a boat-building cluster in Norway failed after the 2008 financial crisis …

Economic growth and economic development: Geographical dimensions, definition, and disparities

M Feldman, M Storper - The new Oxford handbook of economic …, 2018 - books.google.com
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Economics of convention and its perspective on knowledge and institutions

R Diaz-Bone - Knowledge and institutions, 2018 - library.oapen.org
Knowledge and institutions can be conceptually related in different ways, and different
institutional approaches offer different perspectives on this relation. This chapter draws …