Policies for new path development: The case of Oxfordshire

Author(s)
Helen Lawton Smith, Michaela Trippl, Rupert Waters, Elena Zukauskaite
Abstract

This chapter reflects on how evolutionary economic geography (EEG) can be extended to incorporate public policy in its explanations of path development. A weakness of EEG is the poor conceptualisation of the role of the state (central, regional, local) in regional path development. It is therefore argued that a multi-scalar perspective of policy is required and that a large set of policies deserve attention. Oxfordshire in the UK is used to explore the link between public policy and path development.

Organisation(s)
Department of Geography and Regional Research
External organisation(s)
University of Oxford, University of London, Halmstad University
Pages
295-314
No. of pages
20
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71661-9_15
Publication date
2018
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
507026 Economic geography
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
General Social Sciences, Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all), General Business,Management and Accounting, General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/ed0cf286-3913-4d15-9e42-3553ca1f6257