Towards a comprehensive understanding of new regional industrial path development

Author(s)
Robert Hassink, Arne Isaksen, Michaela Trippl
Abstract

Path creation is a key concept in economic geography. So far, particularly scholars within evolutionary economic geography have pioneered research on this topic. This paper critically discusses their work and proposes a broader understanding of how new economic activities emerge in regions, which is referred to here as ‘new regional industrial path development’. The paper develops a future research agenda, which stresses the need to develop a multi-actor and multi-scalar approach, to integrate the future into analyses of path development, and to offer a broader view on inter-path relations.

Organisation(s)
Department of Geography and Regional Research
External organisation(s)
University of Agder, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Journal
Regional Studies
Volume
53
Pages
1636-1645
No. of pages
10
ISSN
0034-3404
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1566704
Publication date
2019
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
507026 Economic geography
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
General Environmental Science, General Social Sciences
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/9717c1f1-f9cc-42c9-adec-69714336f813