Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society

Volume 1 - 19

Current editor(s): Judith Clifton, Anna Davies, Betsy Donald, Emil Evenhuis, Stefania Fiorentino (Associate Editor), Harry Garretsen, Meric Gertler, Amy Glasmeier, Mia Gray, Robert Hassink, Dieter Kogler, Michael Kitson, Linda Lobao, Charles van Marrewijk, Ron Martin, Peter Sunley, Peter Tyler and Chun Yang

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Volume 19, issue 1, 2026

Rethinking path dependence and lock-ins in regions, economy and society pp. 1-15

Han Chu, Robert Hassink, Ron Martin, Peter Sunley and Gregory Unruh

Locked in extraction: unveiling the path dependence of Chile’s neoextractivist economy in a global transition era pp. 17-30

Francisco Vergara-Perucich and Martín Arias-Loyola

Breaking out of old paths? Towards a research agenda on path decline pp. 31-47

Michaela Trippl, Maximilian Benner and Jannik Kastrup

Breaking free from the regional carbon trap: analysing the persistence of CO2 emissions in EU regions pp. 49-67

Sébastien Bourdin and Arsène Perrot

Regions, regulation and the “carriers of history”: how financial lock-in transformed the American South twice pp. 85-107

David Bieri

Lock-in, resilience and path development in old industrial regions: an agency-based explanation pp. 109-127

Jesús M Valdaliso, Patricia Suárez, Matías Mayor and Edurne Magro

Regional lock-ins and realities of firm-level diversification pp. 129-141

Linda Stihl and Josephine V Rekers

Unlocking green transitions: system-level agency in peripheral regions pp. 143-155

Max Roessler

The paradox of ‘on-path’ development: what are the structure–agency dynamics of avoiding negative lock-in? pp. 157-171

Jack L Harris

Institutional reform, path development and firm creation: evidence from China pp. 173-192

Han Wang and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

State-orchestrated green path development? Industrial decarbonisation in Teesside and the Humber pp. 193-212

Stuart Dawley, Danny Mackinnon, Markus Steen and Will Eadson

The politics of path reproduction under vulnerable climate conditions: the case of skiing infrastructure expansion in the Austrian Alps pp. 213-227

Valentina Ausserladscheider

How migrant inventors and informal institutions enable green innovation in EU regions pp. 229-249

Benjamin Cornejo Costas, Nicola Cortinovis and Andrea Morrison

Escaping and creating lock-ins in accelerating low-carbon transitions: conceptual reflections and empirical insights from electricity and auto-mobility transitions in Europe, the USA and China pp. 251-273

Frank W Geels

Lock-in, a way to enable regional economic resilience? Insights from Baotou, China pp. 275-292

Chang Luo and Yunqing Xu

Regional development traps in Europe: a study of occupational trajectories of regions pp. 49a-67

Milene Simone Tessarin, Ron Boschma, Deyu Li and Sergio Petralia

Volume 18, issue 3, 2025

What are our obligations to ‘left-behind places’? A response to Dijkstra pp. e1-e5

Andy Pike, Danny MacKinnon, John Tomaney and Sanne Velthuis

Reply: What are our obligations to ‘left-behind places’? pp. e7-e8

Lewis Dijkstra

Mission-oriented innovation policy: effects on regions and implications for place-based policy pp. 439-452

Maryann Feldman, Michael Kitson, Johan P Larsson, Peter Tyler and Elvira Uyarra

Governing green missions within regions: the case of the Basque Country pp. 453-463

Edurne Magro and Ainhoa Arrona

How the organisation of mission arenas regulates attention away from regional problems and solutions: an attention-based view pp. 465-480

John-Erik Bergkvist, Anna Essén, Karl Wennberg and Anna Krohwinkel

Smart cities as “mission-oriented” innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems—insights from 20 years of experiments in Japan pp. 481-494

Fumi Kitagawa

Analysing the prospects for place-based micro-missions: the role of challenge complexity and regional capacity pp. 495-507

Dylan Henderson and Rick Delbridge

Turning the tide: how public R&D investment shapes European regional development pp. 509-533

Giovanna Ciaffi, Maria Cristina Barbieri Góes, Matteo Deleidi and Antonino Lofaro

The impact of innovation policy on the regional economies of Europe pp. 535-552

Pablo Casas, Tryfonas Christou, Abián García-Rodríguez, Nicholas Joseph Lazarou, Patrizio Lecca, Philippe Monfort and Simone Salotti

Enhancing environmental sustainability: the impact of mission-oriented innovation policies on green innovation and patent trends pp. 553-567

Felix Kurz

Embedding city revival into state-driven innovation system: unravelling the state–local entrepreneurial toolkits for innovation pp. 569-585

Ziming Li, Yiqing Zhao and Zhang Zhang

Evolving scales and spaces of mission-oriented innovation policy in the digital age: digital transition of makerspace innovation in Shenzhen, China pp. 587-604

Chun Yang and Rui Hu

Entrepreneurial scalecraft: spatial–institutional processes and state scalar politics of eco-city-regional development pp. 605-619

Yimeng Yang

State-owned enterprises as drivers for regional missions in the Global South: insights from INVAP in Patagonia and Agrogenética Riojana in Northwest Argentina pp. 621-634

Manuel Gonzalo, Leila Mucarsel, Gabriela Starobinsky and Gastón Burlot

The US’ Polycentric Innovation State pp. 635-646

James D G Wood

First-mover alliance: mission-oriented innovation policy implementation in Shenzhen’s low-altitude economy pp. 647-662

Wangwang Zhou and Jian D Zhang

Mission-oriented innovation: from a new vocabulary to a new grammar for regional innovation policy pp. 663-670

Iris Wanzenböck

Mission-oriented policy: from fixing markets to shaping markets and debunking myths about the state pp. 671-677

Mariana Mazzucato

Volume 18, issue 2, 2025

The symbolic value of megaprojects in urban and regional development pp. 255-263

Robert Hassink, Dieter F Kogler, Davide Ponzini and Xuefei Ren

The symbolic dimensions of waterfront regeneration projects: inter-referencing, legitimating strategies and circulating practices in three Latin American megaprojects pp. 265-278

Guillermo Jajamovich, Gabriel Silvestre and Isabel Duque Franco

The symbolic power of sustainability: Gulf megaprojects and the case of Expo City Dubai pp. 279-292

Natalie Koch

A new city for a new era: Xiong’an as showcase of China’s evolving urban ideology pp. 293-307

Andrew Stokols

Symbolic value and embeddedness of an industrial megaproject: Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg pp. 309-323

Max Roessler, Paula Prenzel and Daniel Schiller

Contested visions of regional futures in Inland Norway: data storage, TikTok and the symbolic value of megaprojects pp. 325-339

Atle Hauge, Trond Nilsen and Giuseppe Calignano

The heroes and killjoys of green megaprojects: a feminist critique pp. 341-357

Madeleine Eriksson, Anna Sofia Lundgren and Rikard H Eriksson

What killed HS2? Explaining the loss of political support for the UK’s high-speed rail megaproject pp. 359-370

Dan Durrant

Megaprojects as sites for resistance: the electoral effects of Mapuche attacks on highways pp. 371-383

Felipe Livert, Xabier Gainza and Pablo Herrera Rivera

Putting a value on hosting a mega sporting event: symbolic value, economic and intangible effects pp. 385-402

John Madden

Wind of change: shifting narratives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Duisburg and Germany pp. 403-418

Johanna Fellbrich, Franziska Sielker, Nicholas Phelps and Peter Dannenberg

A mega-rescaling-project: state powers and intra-state conflicts in the development of the Grand Paris Express station districts pp. 419-432

Antoine Gosnet

Disjunct realities: understanding planning and governance through imaginaries of mega-infrastructure projects pp. 433-438

Neha Sami

Volume 18, issue 1, 2025

Global forces and local impacts: megatrends in regional development pp. 1-16

Harry Garretsen, Michael Kitson and Chun Yang

The right kind of growth for everyone: policy challenges during the digital and green transformations pp. 17-24

Diane Coyle

Demography and income in the 21st century: a long-run perspective pp. 25-40

Steven Brakman, Tristan Kohl and Charles Marrewijk

Population concentration in high-complexity regions within city during the heat wave pp. 41-56

Hyoji Choi, Jonghyun Kim, Donghyeon Yu and Bogang Jun

Understanding the role of oil and gas companies in the current sustainability trends: an application of the sustainable business model archetypes pp. 57-78

Jaime Menéndez-Sánchez, Jorge Fernández-Gómez and Andrés Araujo- de-la-Mata

Demographic ageing: an opportunity to rethink economy, society and regions pp. 79-92

Mildred E Warner, Xue Zhang and Jonathan Guillemot

Global digital networks pp. 93-110

Matthew Zook and Michael Grote

Integrating artificial intelligence into regional technological domains: the role of intra- and extra-regional AI relatedness pp. 111-130

Yijia Chen and Kangmin Wu

The polarisation of Italian metropolitan areas, 2000–2018: structural change, technology and growth pp. 131-156

Giuseppe Simone

Deglobalization: three scenarios pp. 157-166

Peter Bergeijk

Inward FDI and regional performance in Europe after the Great Recession pp. 167-192

Riccardo Crescenzi and Roberto Ganau

The potential benefits of regionally differentiated Covid-19 policies pp. 193-210

Mark Thissen, Frank Oort and Anet Weterings

Firm interconnectedness and resilience: evidence from the Italian manufacturing pp. 211-226

Ibrahim Shaheen, Steven Brakman, Jacopo Canello and Harry Garretsen

Rural areas as winners of COVID-19, digitalization and remote working? Empirical evidence from recent internal migration in Germany pp. 227-248

Louis Knuepling, Rolf Sternberg and Anne Otto

The age of crisis pp. 249-254

Peter Frankopan