Unseen costs: the inequities of the geography of innovation

Ron Boschma (), Rune Fitjar, Elisa Giuliani and Simona Iammarino

No 2428, Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) from Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography

Abstract: Notwithstanding the wide consensus around the undeniable positive effects of innovation, there is increasing awareness that innovations may also have their dark sides. These dark sides of innovations have received little attention in regional studies. This editorial to a special issue on The Dark Side of Innovation and its Geography argues there are clear geographical footprints to this, which are related to both the inputs and the outcomes of innovation processes. In particular, we discuss how innovation activities have geographically uneven outcomes, driving spatial inequality, and how they require material inputs located in certain places, meaning that their costs are also unevenly distributed across space.

Keywords: dark side of innovation; harmful innovations; critical and conflict materials; regional inequality; geography of innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O25 O30 O31 O33 Q34 Q55 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-09, Revised 2024-09
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