Regional Studies

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Volume 56, issue 12, 2022

Research versus development: global cities and the location of MNCs’ cross-border R&D investments pp. 2001-2018

Helen S. Du, Rene Belderbos and Dieter Somers

Food system transformation for sustainable city-regions: exploring the potential of circular economies pp. 2019-2031

John Lever and Roberta Sonnino

Municipal tax restrictions and economic efficiency: an analysis of Australian local councils pp. 2032-2044

Jayanath Ananda and Ann Martin-Sardesai

Where do capabilities reside? Analysis of related technological diversification in multi-locational firms pp. 2045-2057

Anthony Frigon and David L. Rigby

Do EU regions benefit from Smart Specialisation principles? pp. 2058-2073

David L. Rigby, Christoph Roesler, Dieter Kogler, Ron Boschma and Pierre-Alexandre Balland

Engaging for the love of place? The role of place attachment in academics’ regional engagement efforts pp. 2074-2085

Kwadwo Atta-Owusu and Rune Fitjar

Racing ahead or lagging behind? Territorial cohesion in human development around the globe pp. 2086-2101

Iñaki Permanyer and Nicolai Suppa

Hosting to skim: organized crime and the reception of asylum seekers in Italy pp. 2102-2116

Davide Luca and Paola Proietti

Social capital, R&D and provincial growth in Indonesia pp. 2117-2132

Solikin Juhro, Paresh Kumar Narayan, Bernard Njindan Iyke and Budi Trisnanto

Speed of spending and government decentralization: evidence from Italy pp. 2133-2146

Alfredo Del Monte, Alessandro De Iudicibus, Sara Moccia and Luca Pennacchio

SME efficiency in transforming regional business research and innovation investments into innovative sales output pp. 2147-2163

Peter Teirlinck and Pegah Khoshnevis

The spatial impact of entrepreneurial zones: firm, city and inter-city evidence pp. 2164-2176

Nebojsa Stojcic, Korneliusz Pylak and Dubravka Jurlina Alibegovic

For whom are cities good places to live? pp. 2177-2190

Fredrik Carlsen and Stefan Leknes

Formal cooperation and the performance of Italian firms operating inside and outside industrial districts pp. 2191-2206

Jacopo Canello and Francesco Vidoli

Career and family. Women’s century-long journey toward equity pp. 2207-2208

Giorgia Nesti

Handbook of proximity relations pp. 2208-2209

Giovanni Perucca

Regional Studies pp. 2210-2211

The Editors

Contents of volume 56 pp. 2212-2225

The Editors

Volume 56, issue 11, 2022

Exploring the spatialities of institutional entrepreneurship in Taipei’s FinTech industry pp. 1801-1813

Cheng-Yi Lin

State rescaling, power reconfiguration and path dependence: China’s Xin’an River Basin Eco-compensation Pilot (XRBEP) pp. 1814-1828

Jichuan Sheng and Xiao Han

Regional retail landscapes emerging from spatial network analysis pp. 1829-1844

Ann Verhetsel, Joris Beckers and Jeroen Cant

Intercity innovation collaboration and the role of high-speed rail connections: evidence from Chinese co-patent data pp. 1845-1857

Yao Li and Jun Li

The association between hospital cooperation and the quality of healthcare pp. 1858-1873

Paolo Berta, Veronica Vinciotti and Francesco Moscone

Tertiary education expansion and regional firm development pp. 1874-1887

Tobias Schlegel, Curdin Pfister and Uschi Backes-Gellner

Polycentric spatial structure and its economic performance: evidence from meta-analysis pp. 1888-1902

Wan Li, Bindong Sun, Tinglin Zhang and Zhifan Zhang

Effects of cluster policies on regional inventor networks: evidence from France pp. 1903-1918

Konan Alain N’Ghauran and Corinne Autant-Bernard

Do firms in rural regions lack access to credit? Local variation in small business loans and firm growth pp. 1919-1933

Anders Kärnä and Andreas Stephan

Expecting equality or efficiency? A factorial survey on the justice perception of regional redistributive policies pp. 1934-1948

Jan Gniza, Martin Abraham, Isabella Lehmann and Kerstin Lorek

Illegal gambling: measuring the market using the MIMIC model pp. 1949-1960

Umberto Monarca, Ernesto Cassetta, Consuelo Nava and Rosanna Pittiglio

Brexit, the mediation strategies of foreign corporate subsidiaries and regional resilience pp. 1961-1975

Crispian Fuller

Centralization versus decentralization of traffic law enforcement governance in Spain pp. 1976-1988

Jose I. Castillo-Manzano, Mercedes Castro-Nuño, Lourdes Lopez-Valpuesta and Jesús Boby

The promises and pitfalls of operationalizing inclusive growth pp. 1989-2000

David Waite and Graeme Roy

Volume 56, issue 10, 2022

Industrial resilience, regional diversification and related variety during times of crisis in the US urban–rural context pp. 1605-1617

Simone Grabner and Marco Modica

Oxford and Grenoble: multiple anchors, strong dyadic relationships and national policy in fostering cluster architectures pp. 1618-1632

Dimitris Assimakopoulos, Helen Lawton Smith, Ning Baines, Saverio Romeo and Maria Tsouri

Renewable energy drivers in France: a spatial econometric perspective pp. 1633-1654

Olivier Damette and Gaye Del Lo

Do innovation and human capital actually narrow the technology gap? Champions and laggards of European regional productive performance pp. 1655-1670

Martijn Burger, Kostantinos Kounetas, Oreste Napolitano and Spyridon Stavropoulos

Chasing after the wind? Green economy strategies, path creation and transitions in the offshore wind industry pp. 1671-1682

David Gibbs and Paul D. Jensen

Historical roots of innovative entrepreneurial culture: the case of Italian regions pp. 1683-1697

Stefania Cosci, Valentina Meliciani and Marco Pini

How much does state aid mitigate employment losses? Local policy effects at a time of economic crisis pp. 1698-1712

Augusto Cerqua and Guido Pellegrini

The geographical dimension of productivity in Great Britain, 2011–18: the sources of the London productivity advantage pp. 1713-1728

Richard Harris and John Moffat

Efficiency in education: primary and secondary schools in Italian regions pp. 1729-1743

Valentina Chiariello, Francesca Rotondo and Domenico Scalera

Growth incentives and devolved fiscal systems pp. 1744-1756

Katerina Lisenkova, Alastair Greig, Peter G. McGregor, Graeme Roy and J. K. Swales

Regional innovation and the retention of foreign direct investment: a place-based approach pp. 1757-1770

Ryan W. Tang and Andrew Beer

Digitalization in sparsely populated areas: between place-based practices and the smart region agenda pp. 1771-1782

Alexandre Dubois and Franziska Sielker

Does Cohesion Policy help to combat intra-country regional disparities? A perspective on Central European countries pp. 1783-1795

Zbigniew Mogila, Tomas Miklosovic, Ivan Lichner, Marek Radvanský and Janusz Zaleski

Regional innovation impact of universities pp. 1796-1797

David Charles

The politicisation of social Europe: Conflict dynamics and welfare integration pp. 1798-1799

Igor Guardiancich

Volume 56, issue 9, 2022

Digital meets smart: towards a technology-enhanced approach to Smart Specialisation Strategy development pp. 1421-1428

Luca Mora, Anastasia Panori, Mark Deakin and Raquel Ortega-Argiles

Machine learning and the identification of Smart Specialisation thematic networks in Arctic Scandinavia pp. 1429-1441

Moilanen Mikko, Østbye Stein and Simonen Jaakko

Evidence-informed decision-making in Smart Specialisation Strategies: a patent-based approach for discovering regional technological capabilities pp. 1442-1453

Angelo Natalicchio, Luca Mora, Lorenzo Ardito and Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli

Combining technological relatedness and sectoral specialization for improving prioritization in Smart Specialisation pp. 1454-1467

Anastasia Panori, Christina Kakderi and Ilias Dimitriadis

Synergy and policy-making in German innovation systems: Smart Specialisation Strategies at national, regional, local levels? pp. 1468-1479

Henriette Ruhrmann, Michael Fritsch and Loet Leydesdorff

The non-linear effect of technological diversification on regional productivity: implications for growth and Smart Specialisation Strategies pp. 1480-1495

Silvia Rocchetta, Raquel Ortega-Argiles and Dieter Kogler

Economic modelling to evaluate Smart Specialisation: an analysis of research and innovation targets in Southern Europe pp. 1496-1509

Javier Barbero, Olga Diukanova, Carlo Gianelle, Simone Salotti and Artur Santoalha

Industrial waste, green taxes and environmental policies in a regional perspective pp. 1510-1523

Jaime Vallés-Giménez and Anabel Zárate-Marco

Retheorizing industrial–institutional coevolution: a multidimensional perspective pp. 1524-1537

Maximilian Benner

Mysteries of the trade? Skill-specific local agglomeration economies pp. 1538-1553

Martin Andersson and Johan P. Larsson

Firm location, regional weather conditions and bid pricing strategies in the Colombian wholesale electricity market pp. 1554-1570

John J. Garcia Rendon, Jesus Lopez-Rodriguez and Jhonny Moncada-Mesa

A blessing or curse: the spillover effects of city–county consolidation on local economies pp. 1571-1588

Nanxin Deng, Bo Feng and Mark Partridge

Measuring evolving regional autonomy demands and statutes: introducing the Sub-state Autonomy Scale (SAS) pp. 1589-1603

Christoph Niessen

Localism and the design of political systems pp. 1604-1604

Mark Callanan

Volume 56, issue 8, 2022

Correction pp. ci-ci

The Editors

Financialization under state entrepreneurialism in China pp. 1237-1243

Fulong Wu, Fenghua Pan and Jie Chen

Urban growth, from manufacturing to consumption and financialization: the case of China’s contemporary urban development pp. 1244-1258

Thierry Theurillat

Changing roles of the state in the financialization of urban development through chengtou in China pp. 1259-1270

Yi Feng, Fulong Wu and Fangzhu Zhang

Financialization of urban development in China: fantasy, fact or somewhere in between? pp. 1271-1281

Yanpeng Jiang and Paul Waley

A multi-scalar view of urban financialization: urban development and local government bonds in China pp. 1282-1294

Zhenfa Li, Fulong Wu and Fangzhu Zhang

The financialization of urban development and urban labour productivity: evidence from China pp. 1295-1307

Jie Chen, Xiaoxin Guo and Shihu Zhong

Growing shrinking cities pp. 1308-1319

Beatriz Fernandez and Maxwell Hartt

Multinationals’ recruiting in industrial districts pp. 1320-1332

Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver, Jose Antonio Belso-Martínez and Isabel Díez-Vial

Lock-in, paradox and regional renewal pp. 1333-1346

Lance R. Newey and Lars Coenen

Outsourcing and public expenditure: an aggregate perspective with regional data pp. 1347-1358

Mar Delgado-Téllez, José Federico Geli, Enrique Moral-Benito and Javier Pérez

A trade hierarchy of cities based on transport cost thresholds pp. 1359-1376

Jorge Diaz-Lanchas, José Zofío and Carlos Llano

Preferential tax treatment – a political or economic tool? pp. 1377-1390

Monika Banaszewska

Promoting cross-border investing by business angels in the European Union pp. 1391-1403

Colin Mason, Tiago Botelho and Joe Duggett

The impact of the new Northern Ireland protocol: can Northern Ireland enjoy the best of both worlds? pp. 1404-1417

Geoffroy Duparc-Portier and Gioele Figus

Comparative health systems: A new framework pp. 1418-1419

Davide Vampa

Volume 56, issue 7, 2022

Unbalanced growth in the labourscape: explaining regional employment divergence pp. 1059-1070

Robert Sobyra, Thomas Sigler and Elin Charles-Edwards

More than halfway to Utopia: exploring the proximity between locational ideals and perceived realities pp. 1071-1081

Per Strömblad and Thomas Niedomysl

The spatial agglomeration of Italian agritourism farms pp. 1082-1096

Rosa Maria Fanelli and Luca Romagnoli

Smart cities and urban inequality pp. 1097-1112

Andrea Caragliu and Chiara Del Bo

Multi-source strategic interaction in China’s public services: a spatial econometric analysis pp. 1113-1124

Jinbo Song and Hehui Yuan

Optimal region design to foster industrial diversification pp. 1125-1141

Daniel E. Restrepo, Juan Duque and Richard Church

The Covid-19 shock in European regions pp. 1142-1160

Philip McCann, Raquel Ortega-Argiles and Pei-Yu Yuan

Network governance and coordination of a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem pp. 1161-1175

Stephen Knox and Norin Arshed

How do occupational relatedness and complexity condition employment dynamics in periods of growth and recession? pp. 1176-1189

Emelie Hane-Weijman, Rikard H. Eriksson and David Rigby

Wage inequality, entrepreneurship and creative people in regional labour markets pp. 1190-1209

António Sérgio Ribeiro, Rui Baptista and Francisco Lima

Fiscal federalism, social identity and place-based resentment pp. 1210-1223

Olivier Jacques, Daniel Béland and André Lecours

What can city leaders do for climate change? Insights from the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group network pp. 1224-1233

Alessandro Sancino, Max Stafford, Alessandro Braga and Leslie Budd

The economic geography of cross-border migration pp. 1234-1235

Nico Irawan, Komm Pechinthorn, Jirangrug Samarkjarn and Tri Febrianti Valentina

City preparedness for the climate crisis. A multidisciplinary approach pp. 1235-1236

Xira Ruiz-Campillo

Volume 56, issue 6, 2022

The contribution of students to regional economies: reframing the regional innovation systems approach pp. 885-891

Shiri M. Breznitz, Helen Lawton Smith and Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen

Universities, students and regional economies: a symbiotic relationship? pp. 892-908

Andre Carrascal Incera, Anastasios Kitsos and Diana Gutierrez Posada

Regional campuses and invisible innovation: impacts of non-traditional students in ‘Regional Australia’ pp. 909-920

Robyn Eversole

Human capital dynamics: the geographical mobility of high-school graduates towards university in Italy pp. 921-939

Gabriele Ballarino, Sabrina Colombo, Nazareno Panichella and Matteo Piolatto

Entrepreneurship education and firm creation pp. 940-955

Shiri M. Breznitz and Qiantao Zhang

Student regional origins and student entrepreneurship pp. 956-971

Jonathan T. Eckhardt, Clint Harris, Chuan Chen, Bekhzod Khoshimov and Brent Goldfarb

University graduates’ early career decisions and interregional mobility: self-employment versus salaried job pp. 972-988

Riccardo Fini, Azzurra Meoli and Maurizio Sobrero

University graduates in metropolitan and peripheral areas: mobility, occupational choice and outcomes pp. 989-1000

Ina Drejer, Jacob Rubæk Holm and Kristian Nielsen

Anchoring talent to regions: the role of universities in graduate retention through employment and entrepreneurship pp. 1001-1014

Fumi Kitagawa, Chiara Marzocchi, Mabel Sánchez-Barrioluengo and Elvira Uyarra

Regional migration, entrepreneurship and university alumni pp. 1015-1032

You (Willow) Wu and Charles E. Eesley

The foundational economy and regional development pp. 1033-1042

Teis Hansen

Universal Basic Income as an instrument of regional development policy: a micro–macroeconomic analysis for Scotland pp. 1043-1055

Kevin Connolly, David Eiser, Ashwin Kumar, Peter G. McGregor and Graeme Roy

Design, control, predict: Logistical governance in the smart city pp. 1056-1057

Robert Cowley

Sustainable futures. An agenda for action pp. 1056-1056

Lisa de Propris

Volume 56, issue 5, 2022

The impact of regional inequality on economic growth: a spatial econometric approach pp. 687-702

Domenica Panzera and Paolo Postiglione

Smart specialization: a spontaneous four-step process in the mixed Arab–Jewish region of Haifa and Nazareth pp. 703-718

Mor Shilon, Dan Kaufmann, Dafna Schwartz and Alessandro Rosiello

Mimetic isomorphism, offshore outsourcing and backshoring decisions among micro and small enterprises pp. 719-736

Jacopo Canello

Exploring external urban relational processes: inter-city financial flows complementing global city-regions pp. 737-750

Bing Zhu, Kathy Pain, Peter J. Taylor and Ben Derudder

Shaping the directionality of sustainability transitions: the diverging development patterns of solar photovoltaics in two Chinese provinces pp. 751-769

Kejia Yang, Johan Schot and Bernhard Truffer

Repositioning the rural in city-regionalism through a locally based functional analysis pp. 770-781

Wei-Ju Huang

Strategic coupling in global production networks through international cooperation zones: the Thai–Chinese Rayong Industrial Zone pp. 782-793

Zhi Zheng, Weidong Liu and Tao Song

The legacy of literacy: evidence from Italian regions pp. 794-807

Roberto Basile, Carlo Ciccarelli and Peter Groote

A fuzzy expert system for sustainable local development pp. 808-817

Cristian Rizzo, Gianluigi Guido, Giovanni Pino, Tommaso Pirotti and Luca Anzilli

Brazil’s south–north labour income gap re-examined: evidence across purchasing power adjusted wage distributions pp. 818-838

Rodrigo Oliveira and Raul Silveira Neto

The regional geography of social mobility in Mexico pp. 839-852

Marcelo Delajara, Raymundo Campos-Vazquez and Roberto Velez-Grajales

Translating Smart Specialisation and entrepreneurial discovery into a process-oriented policy pp. 853-865

Manuel Laranja

Why territory matters for implementing active subsidiarity in EU regional policy pp. 866-878

John R. Moodie, Viktor Salenius and Mari Wøien Meijer

Innovation in real places: Strategies for prosperity in an unforgiving world pp. 879-880

Kevin Morgan

Regional Studies 2022 Awards pp. 881-881

The Editors

Correction pp. 882-883

The Editors

Volume 56, issue 4, 2022

Emerging industries: institutions, legitimacy and system-level agency pp. 523-535

Huiwen Gong, Christian Binz, Robert Hassink and Michaela Trippl

Going beyond the line of sight: institutional entrepreneurship and system agency in regional path creation pp. 536-547

Elvira Uyarra and Kieron Flanagan

Institutional relatedness and the emergence of renewable energy cooperatives in German districts pp. 548-562

Matthijs B. Punt, Thomas Bauwens, Koen Frenken and Lars Holstenkamp

The role of system-building agency in regional path creation: insights from the emergence of artificial intelligence in Montreal pp. 563-578

Cristian Gherhes, Tim Vorley, Paul Vallance and Chay Brooks

Reconsidering regional structural conditions for industrial renewal pp. 579-591

Simon Baumgartinger-Seiringer, Lea Fuenfschilling, Johan Miörner and Michaela Trippl

Contextualizing agency in new path development: how system selectivity shapes regional reconfiguration capacity pp. 592-604

Johan Miörner

Legitimation dynamics in industrial path development: new-to-the-world versus new-to-the-region industries pp. 605-618

Christian Binz and Huiwen Gong

A data-driven global innovation system approach and the rise of China’s artificial intelligence industry pp. 619-629

Zhen Yu, Zheng Liang and Lan Xue

Industry legitimacy: bright and dark phases in regional industry path development pp. 630-643

Suyash Jolly and Teis Hansen

Legitimation, institutions and regional path creation: a cross-national study of offshore wind pp. 644-655

Danny MacKinnon, Asbjørn Karlsen, Stuart Dawley, Markus Steen, Samson Afewerki and Assiya Kenzhegaliyeva

Top-down and bottom-up legitimization of emerging industries: evidence from two Italian mechatronics clusters pp. 656-667

Valentina Forrer, Monica Plechero, Alessandro Rossi and Erica Santini

The sustainable well-being of urban and rural areas pp. 668-682

Anne Le Roy and Fiona Ottaviani

The city and quality of life pp. 683-683

Alessandra Michelangeli

Affective assemblages and local economies pp. 684-685

Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins

Volume 56, issue 3, 2022

Business-promoted city-regionalism? New Industrial City projects by China Fortune Land Development pp. 355-370

Yi Li and Feng Yuan

Persistent shocks and incomplete regional adjustment: a model-averaging approach pp. 371-380

Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy and Kyle K. Hood

Geographical Indications and local development: the strength of territorial embeddedness pp. 381-393

Riccardo Crescenzi, Fabrizio De Filippis, Mara Giua and Cristina Vaquero-Piñeiro

Documenting the ‘soft spaces’ of London planning: Opportunity Areas as institutional fix in a growth-oriented city pp. 394-405

Jessica Ferm, Sonia Freire Trigo and Niamh Moore-Cherry

Network capital and urban development: an inter-urban capital flow network analysis pp. 406-419

Shuai Shi, Siu Kei Wong and Chen Zheng

Immigration and regional housing markets: prices, rents, price-to-rent ratios and disequilibrium pp. 420-432

Thi Thu Ha Nguyen, Hatice Balli, Faruk Balli and Iqbal A. Syed

Local institutions, union wage effects and native–foreign wage gaps pp. 433-446

Torben Schmidt

Air connection dropouts and isolation risks across European regions pp. 447-458

Alessandro Manello, Davide Scotti and Nicola Volta

Cultural capital and income inequality across Italian regions pp. 459-475

Annie Tubadji, Masood Gheasi, Alessandro Crociata and Iacopo Odoardi

The impact of metropolitan technology on the non-metropolitan labour market: evidence from US patents pp. 476-488

Oudom Hean and Mark Partridge

Urban wage gaps in Colombia and the impact of a national payroll tax policy pp. 489-503

Paula Herrera-Idárraga, Pablo Adrian Garlati-Bertoldi and Juan David Torres

Will reducing border barriers via the EU’s b-solutions lead towards greater European territorial integration? pp. 504-517

Eduardo Medeiros, Martín Guillermo Ramírez, Cinzia Dellagiacoma and Giulia Brustia

Productivity perspectives pp. 518-520

Alexandra Tsvetkova

Why face-to-face still matters: The persistent power of cities in the post-pandemic era pp. 518-518

Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López

Correction pp. 521-521

The Editors

Correction pp. 522-522

The Editors

Volume 56, issue 2, 2022

Correction pp. iii-iii

The Editors

Regions and trademarks: research opportunities and policy insights from leveraging trademarks in regional innovation studies pp. 177-189

Carolina Castaldi and Sandro Mendonça

Trademarks as an indicator of regional innovation: evidence from Japanese prefectures pp. 190-209

Joern Block, Christian Fisch, Kenta Ikeuchi and Masatoshi Kato

Trademarks, patents and the appropriation strategies of incumbents: the scope of new firm formation in European regions pp. 210-226

Rene Belderbos, Michał Kazimierczak and Micheline Goedhuys

Distance (still) hampers diffusion of innovations pp. 227-241

Georg von Graevenitz, Stuart J. H. Graham and Amanda F. Myers

The role of technology and relatedness in regional trademark activity pp. 242-255

Kyriakos Drivas

The making and consolidation of the first national trademark system: the diffusion of trademarks across Spanish regions, 1850–1920 pp. 256-275

Patricio Sáiz and José Zofío

Dynamics of regional diversification: a new approach using trademark data pp. 276-289

Eric Iversen and Sverre J. Herstad

‘Buzz-and-pipeline’ dynamics in Chinese science: the impact of interurban collaboration linkages on cities’ innovation capacity pp. 290-306

Zhan Cao, Ben Derudder, Liang Dai and Zhenwei Peng

Dualism and payroll shares across US states pp. 307-323

Ivan Mendieta-Muñoz, Codrina Rada, Ansel Schiavone and Rudi von Arnim

Can the Internet narrow regional economic disparities? pp. 324-337

Sixu Wu, Panpan Wang and Bindong Sun

Rethinking asset modification in regional industrial path development: toward a conceptual framework pp. 338-350

Yijia Chen

The capacity to innovate: Cluster policy and management in the biotechnology sector pp. 351-352

David A. Wolfe

The Routledge handbook of regional design pp. 352-353

Stephen M. Wheeler

Volume 56, issue 1, 2022

Polycentric urban regions: conceptualization, identification and implications pp. 1-6

Ben Derudder, Evert Meijers, John Harrison, Michael Hoyler and Xingjian Liu

A prehistory of the polycentric urban region: excavating Dutch applied geography, 1930–60 pp. 7-20

Michiel van Meeteren

Breaking with the spatial-cycle model: the shift towards ‘syncurbanization’ in polycentric urban regions pp. 21-35

Alois Humer, Rodrigo Cardoso and Evert Meijers

Urban structure in transition: evidence from Poland, 1983–2011 pp. 36-47

Bartosz Bartosiewicz and Szymon Marcinczak

Spatial structure and productivity in European regions pp. 48-62

Wessel M. Ouwehand, Frank Oort and Nicola Cortinovis

Do polycentric urban regions promote functional spillovers and economic performance? Evidence from China pp. 63-74

Yixiao Wang, Bindong Sun and Tinglin Zhang

Spatial structure and subjective well-being in North-West Europe pp. 75-86

Marloes M. Hoogerbrugge, Martijn Burger and Frank Oort

Defining ‘centres’ in analyses of polycentric urban regions: the case of the Yangtze River Delta pp. 87-98

Weiyang Zhang, Ben Derudder, Xingjian Liu, Bindong Sun and Yu Wang

Understanding metropolitan growth in German polycentric urban regions pp. 99-112

Kati Volgmann and Angelika Münter

Polycentric urban structure and innovation: evidence from a panel of Chinese cities pp. 113-127

Yingcheng Li and Rui Du

The financialization of real estate in Japan: the formation of a core–periphery structure pp. 128-139

Yoshiyuki Kikuchi, Kenji Teshima and Kaoru Yoshino

Tourism and local growth in Italy pp. 140-154

Raffaello Bronzini, Emanuele Ciani and Francesco Montaruli

Smart Specialisation Strategy in practice: have regions changed the allocation of Structural Funds? pp. 155-170

Diego D’Adda, Donato Iacobucci and Francesco Perugini

Urban competitiveness in developing economies pp. 171-172

Gabriel Camară

The infrastructured state: Territoriality and the national infrastructure system pp. 172-173

Dayne Walling