Costs, incentives, and institutions in bridging evolutionary economic geography and global production networks

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

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Abstract: Two of the most influential strands in economic geography and regional studies – evolutionary economic geography and global production networks – have run on parallel tracks with limited cross-fertilization. The Regional Studies Annual Lecture 2020 paper by Henry Yeung proposes building bridges across both strands to improve our understanding of the uneven distribution and evolution of economic activity across the world. He puts forward the concept of strategic coupling as the foundation of such bridges. In this reply I argue that strategic coupling will not suffice, unless the variations in costs and incentives for engaging in networks and the different capacity of cities and regions to assimilate the benefits of innovation diffusion through networks are taken into consideration.

Keywords: evolutionary economic geography; global production networks; strategic coupling; institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 L22 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4 pages
Date: 2021-06-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-evo, nep-geo, nep-hme, nep-int and nep-ure
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Published in Regional Studies, 3, June, 2021, 55(6), pp. 1011 - 1014. ISSN: 0034-3404

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