The emerging empirics of evolutionary economic geography

Ron Boschma () and Koen Frenken

No 1101, Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) from Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography

Abstract: Following last decadeÕs programmatic papers on Evolutionary Economic Geography, we report on recent empirical advances and how this empirical work can be positioned vis-ˆ-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.

Keywords: evolutionary economic geography; clusters; related variety; institutions; regional branching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B25 B52 D85 L25 O18 R0 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2011-01, Revised 2011-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-evo, nep-geo, nep-hpe and nep-sbm
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