Over the past 25 years, the regional innovation system (RIS) approach has become a
powerful framework for explaining the uneven geographical distribution of innovation in …

Scholars of the geography of innovation have produced an impressive body of literature
over the last decades. However, until recently this research focused on successful core …

Regions across the world are searching for ways to fashion new green growth paths and to
promote green shifts in mature industries. The article aims to explore conceptually and …

Regions and cities face unceasing pressures to adapt in response to processes of
globalization, changes in industrial production, and new patterns of migration and trade. At …

The article discusses mechanisms and policy that stimulate regional economic restructuring.
Economic restructuring is conceptualised through the notion of path development. The …

This paper examines the ways by which organizational and institutional features of regional
innovation systems shape smart specialization practices in less-developed, intermediate …

How new regional growth paths emerge and what policy concepts are most adequate for
nurturing their evolution constitute recurring themes in regional innovation and development …

This paper is a theoretical contribution to interrogate and elucidate a term commonly used
(but rarely interrogated) from the perspective of the economic geography field within which …

The continued emphasis on innovation in urban and clustered settings has led many
geographers to conceive peripheries as laggard and non-innovative. After reconstructing …

Efforts to develop entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) have proliferated in recent years,
marking it out as the latest industrial policy 'blockbuster'. This article reports the findings from …