Over the past few years, scholarly debates on new path development have attracted
increasing attention within the economic geography literature. This work distinguishes
various trajectories of regional and industrial evolution. So far, these evolutionary
trajectories have been mainly conceptualized as 'positive'forms of path development.
However, in reality, many regions are undergoing phases that can be characterized as
'negative'trajectories. Despite their potentially detrimental social and political effects …

Over the past few years, scholarly debates on new path development have attracted
increasing attention within the economic geography literature. This work distinguishes
various trajectories of regional and industrial evolution. So far, these evolutionary
trajectories have been mainly conceptualised as ‘ positive’ forms of path
development. However, in reality, many regions are undergoing phases that can be
characterised as ‘ negative’ trajectories. Despite their potentially detrimental social …