The research agendas of evolutionary economic geography (EEG) and global value chains
(GVCs) have developed more or less independently from each other, with little interaction so …

This paper builds on (eco-) innovation geography and international business studies to
investigate the effects of greenfield foreign direct investments (FDIs) on regional …

Growing importance has been attached to the concept of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EE)
as productive structures that encompass complex sets of interaction driving economic …

As regions evolve, their economies become more complex, and they tend to diversify into
related activities. Although there is a bright side to this diversification process in terms of …

Abstract The Advanced Producer Services (APS) sector, long considered to be the vanguard
of the knowledge economy and world-city formation, is undergoing a digital transformation …

Economic diversification—the process by which locations enter new economic activities—is
known to be a combination of related and unrelated diversification. Related diversification is …

This paper aims to identify the future Industry 4.0 technology (I4T) centres of knowledge
production in Europe. We expect I4Ts to thrive in regions where they can draw on local …

This study provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the major
scientific literature about labour market developments and resilience in a spatial context …

Different strands of literature have provided important insights into the economic effects of
high-skilled migration. Evolutionary economic approaches have provided robust evidence …

This article proposes a framework to study how the existing knowledge portfolio of regional
economies affects the emergence and occurrence of breakthrough technologies. The study …