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Trinity of change agency, regional development paths and opportunity spaces Open
The study of regional growth paths is a key theme in economic geography and of elemental interest for regional development. This paper addresses the interplay between path-dependent, structural forces and the construction and utilization o…
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Towards a comprehensive understanding of new regional industrial path development Open
Path creation is a key concept in economic geography. So far, particularly scholars within evolutionary economic geography have pioneered research on this topic. This paper critically discusses their work and proposes a broader understandi…
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The Geography of Development Open
We develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced-growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with different levels of migration frictions. Different migration s…
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Regional innovation policies for new path development – beyond neo-liberal and traditional systemic views Open
How new regional growth paths emerge and what policy concepts are most adequate for nurturing their evolution constitute recurring themes in regional innovation and development studies. New industrial paths are often portrayed as the resul…
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The dark side of regional industrial path development: towards a typology of trajectories of decline Open
Over the past few years, scholarly debates on new path development have attracted increasing attention within the economic geography literature. This work distinguishes various trajectories of regional and industrial evolution. So far, the…
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Advancing regional innovation systems: What does evolutionary economic geography bring to the policy table? Open
The evolutionary turn in economic geography has shed new light on historically contingent regional preconditions for innovation and economic growth, which has the potential of improving the analytical input to regional innovation system ap…
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Explaining coherence in international regime complexes: How the World Bank shapes the field of multilateral development finance Open
The landscape of multilateral development finance has changed dramatically in the past decades. At Bretton Woods, delegates envisioned the World Bank as the focal organization mobilizing financial support for national development strategie…
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Re-examining path dependence in the digital age: The evolution of connected car business models Open
Proliferating digitalization affects the evolution of business models across contexts and challenges firms’ established innovation trajectories. Prior work on organizational path dependence suggests that firms experience decreasing option …
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Cluster policy and regional development: scale, scope and renewal Open
Consistent with Marshallian/Porterian theories, the Norwegian cluster policy has been linked to the development of specialized regional industry environments. Cluster projects are relatively sector-specific entities often supporting (alrea…
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Inclusive education in South Africa: path dependencies and emergences Open
Inclusive education is a fundamental right of all students. Despite international policy initiatives, educational exclusion is pervasive, especially in the Global South, and disproportionately affects disabled students. Barriers to inclusi…
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The political economy of the Brazilian model of agricultural development: Institutions versus sectoral policy Open
This paper analyzes the transition of Brazilian agriculture from low productivity and backwardness to its current status as a major player in international markets. Long-term investment in local agricultural technology was a crucial determ…
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Following or breaking regional development paths: on the role and capability of the innovative entrepreneur Open
Structural change, economic diversification and new path development feature prominently in scientific and policy debates. Against the backdrop of increasing specialization in the economy, this paper reinterprets Schumpeterian innovative e…
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Expanding Analyses of Path Creation: Interconnections between Territory and Technology Open
Theoretically and conceptually, evolutionary economic geography has paid little attention to technological characteristics when explaining the emergence of new industries. Building on the literature on technological innovation systems, the…
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Beyond the <i>Single Path View</i>: Interpath Dynamics in Regional Contexts Open
Recurrent economic and financial crises, globalization, digitalization, and climate change are posing major challenges for regional economies to constantly renew their industrial structures. Over the past few years much progress has been m…
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Re-thinking the coronavirus pandemic as a policy punctuation: COVID-19 as a path-clearing policy accelerator Open
This article joins with others in this special issue to examine the evolution of our understanding of how the coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemic impacted policy ideas and routines across a wide variety of sectors of government activit…
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State rescaling, policy experimentation and path dependency in post-Mao China: a dynamic analytical framework Open
This paper evaluates the applicability of the state rescaling framework for framing politico-economic evolution in China. It then presents an analytical framework that examines institutional change as driven by the dynamic entwinement of s…
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From path dependence to policy mixes for Nordic electric mobility: Lessons for accelerating future transport transitions Open
We examine the problem of how to accelerate policies related to electric vehicles (EVs) in the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. These four Nordic countries represent an interesting collection of cases by virtue of havi…
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Pathways of regional transformation and Industry 4.0 Open
We explore the impact of technological changes brought in by the Fourth Industrial Revolution on local systems of industrial specialization. To do so we connect the Evolutional Economic Geography literature on regional diversification with…
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Historicizing housing typologies: beyond welfare state regimes and varieties of residential capitalism Open
Comparative housing scholars have, for many years now, imported typologies from non-housing spheres to explain housing phenomena. Notably, approaches attempting to account for divergent housing tenure patterns and trends have frequently be…
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New path development between innovation systems and individual actors Open
This special issue is devoted to studying mechanisms that may stimulate or hamper the renewal of existing industry paths and the growth of new paths. In this guest editorial, we look closely at the role of policy instruments in situations …
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Persistence and Path Dependence in the Spatial Economy Open
How much of the spatial distribution of economic activity today is determined by history rather than by geographic fundamentals?And if history matters for spatial allocations, does it also matter for overall e ciency?This paper develops a …
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Path tracing in the study of agency and structures: Methodological considerations Open
Despite the rapidly expanding literature on agency in regional development, the methodological approaches available to study it have not followed theoretical development and empirical studies. This article aims to shed light on methodologi…
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The Geography of Technology Legitimation: How Multiscalar Institutional Dynamics Matter for Path Creation in Emerging Industries Open
Research in economic geography has recently been challenged to adopt more institutional and multiscalar perspectives on industrial path development. This article contributes to this debate by integrating insights from (evolutionary) econom…
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Continuity and Change in Social Policy Open
While much has been written over the last two decades about social policy continuity and change, the literature is often fragmentary and imprecise, with little material exploring it in a systematic and rigorous manner. The objective of thi…
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Institutional path dependence and environmental water recovery in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin Open
The concept of institutional path dependence offers useful ways of understanding the trajectories of water policy reforms and how past institutional arrangements, policy paradigms and development patterns constrain current and future choic…
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Towards a stage model of regional industrial path transformation Open
The recent debate on innovation-based structural change in Evolutionary Economic Geography is characterised by a strong focus on the rise of new industrial paths. This paper seeks to shift attention and cast light on radical innovation act…
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Regional Growth Paths: From Structure to Agency and Back Open
The study of regional growth paths is a key theme in economic geography and of elemental interest for policy makers concerned with regional development. Evolutionary theory explains the path-dependent nature of regional development, and po…
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Modeling myths: On<span>DICE</span>and dynamic realism in integrated assessment models of climate change mitigation Open
We analyze how stylized Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), and specifically the widely‐used Dynamic Integrated Climate‐Economy model (DICE), represent the cost of emissions abatement. Many assume temporal independence—that abatement cost…
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Retheorizing industrial–institutional coevolution: a multidimensional perspective Open
Evolutionary economic geography has sought to understand the development of regional industrial pathways but tended to neglect both the multiscalarity of economic development and the role of institutional change. The concept of coevolution…
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Path- and place-dependence of entrepreneurial ventures at times of war and conflict Open
Studies have previously examined the path-development of entrepreneurs within a penurious environment, but what if their path encounters a conflict situation? Does conflict engender greater resource poverty and subsequently msqueeze out an…