Regional development: contribution of evolutionary biology

Lucie Vaskova
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Lucie Vaskova: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This paper tries to set out a potential of application of some evolutionary biology concepts to the issue of regional development. The objective is to show that employment of these concepts or at least inspiration by them may enrich some theories of regional development and enhance the explanatory framework of regional evolution.First, the views of institutional economics and geography on evolutionary biology contribution are summarised, then some evolutionary concepts are applied to the path dependence concept e. g., in effort to find a possible way of classification of this phenomenon. However, we discuss some other evolutionary concepts, as coevolution, adaptation, preadaption, general approach to comprehension of evolution, etc. in connexion with some chosen theories and problems of regional development.

Keywords: Regional development; evolutionary biology; path dependence; theories of regional development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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Published in ASRDLF. Convergence et disparités régionales au sein de l'espace européen : les politiques régionales à l'épreuve des faits - XLème colloque de l'ASRDLF, 1-3 septembre 2004, Bruxelles, 2004, France. 15 p

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