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The emerging empirics of evolutionary economic geography
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Following last decade’s programmatic papers on Evolutionary Economic Geography, we report on recent empirical advances and how this empirical work can be positioned vis-à-vis other strands of research in economic geography. First, we review studies on the path dependent nature of clustering, and how the evolutionary perspective relates to that of New Economic Geography. Second, we discuss research on agglomeration externalities in Regional Science, and how Evolutionary Economic Geography contributed to this literature with the concepts of cognitive proximity and related variety. Third, we go into the role of institutions in Evolutionary Economic Geography, and we relate this to the way Institutional Economic Geography tends to view institutions. From this discussion, a number of new research challenges are derived.
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- Boschma, R., & Frenken, K.
- Venue
- Journal of Economic Geography
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2011-01-08
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 295-307
- ISSN
- 1468-2702 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-2710
- OpenAlex
- W2115322324
- Cited by
- 526
- References
- 80
- FWCI
- 78.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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