The emerging empirics of evolutionary economic geography

Ron Boschma () and Koen Frenken

No 10-10, Working Papers from Eindhoven Center for Innovation Studies

Abstract: Following last decade’s programmatic papers on Evolutionary Economic Geography, we report on recent empirical advances and how this empirical work can be positioned vis-à-vis other strands of research in economic geography. First, we review studies on the path dependent nature of clustering, and how the evolutionary perspective relates to that of New Economic Geography. Second, we discuss research on agglomeration externalities in Regional Science, and how Evolutionary Economic Geography contributed to this literature with the concepts of cognitive proximity and related variety. Third, we go into the role of institutions in Evolutionary Economic Geography, and we relate this to the way Institutional Economic Geography tends to view institutions. From this discussion, a number of new research challenges are derived.

Keywords: evolutionary economic geography; clusters; related variety; institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B25 B52 D85 L25 O18 R0 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-11, Revised 2010-11
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