Progress in Economic Geography: Inaugural Editorial

Author(s)
Robert Hassink, Michaela Trippl, Shiri Breznitz, Lars Coenen, Rune Dahl Fitjar , Huiwen Gong, Canfei He, Matthew Zook
Abstract

Economic geography has been thriving and prospering for many years, as has been claimed by leading scholars in the field, such as Scott (2000), who wrote about the ‘Great Half-Century’of economic geography and more recently, Martin (2021), who observed the ‘Great Expansion’of the discipline. This is also testified by the visibility of influential journals in the field, as well as various handbooks (see, for instance, Clark, Feldman, Gertler, & Wójcik, 2018) and textbooks (Aoyama et al., 2010, Barnes and Christophers, 2018, Coe et al., 2019). Moreover, its success is also demonstrated by the popularity of the Global Conference on Economic Geography, the Geography of Innovation conferences, as well as economic geography related special sessions at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, and the Regional Studies Association. The recent expansion and booming of this field of human …

Organisation(s)
Department of Geography and Regional Research
External organisation(s)
University of Melbourne, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, University of Toronto, University of Stavanger, Universität Bern, Peking University, University of Kentucky
Journal
Progress in Economic Geography
Volume
2023
ISSN
2949-6942
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peg.2022.100001
Publication date
2022
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
507026 Economic geography
Keywords
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/92988a4d-e55b-4f1b-8db8-fda89e067710