Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography

Edited by Ron Boschma, Professor, Department of Economic Geography and the Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht (URU), Utrecht University, The Netherlands and Ron Martin, Professor of Economic Geography, Director of Research and Fellow of St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge, London, UK

• Contents:Introduction: The New Paradigm of Evolutionary Economic Geography1. The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic GeographyRon Boschma and Ron MartinPART I: CONCEPTUAL CHALLENGES IN EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY2. Generalized Darwinism and Evolutionary Economic GeographyJürgen Essletzbichler and David L. Rigby3. The Place of Path Dependence in an Evolutionary Perspective on the Economic LandscapeRon Martin and Peter Sunley4. Complexity Thinking and Evolutionary Economic GeographyRon Martin and Peter Sunley5. The Spatial Evolution of Innovation Networks: A Proximity PerspectiveRon Boschma and Koen FrenkenPART II: FIRM DYNAMICS, INDUSTRIAL DYNAMICS AND SPATIAL CLUSTERING6. Entrepreneurship, Evolution and GeographyErik Stam7. Pecuniary Externalities and the Localized Generation of Technological KnowledgeCristiano Antonelli8. The Relationship between Multinational Firms and Innovative ClustersSimona Iammarino and Philip McCann9. Emergence of Regional Clusters: The Role of Spinoffs in the Early Growth ProcessMichael S. Dahl, Christian R. Østergaard and Bent Dalum10. A Social-Evolutionary Perspective on Regional ClustersUdo Staber11. Evolutionary Economic Geography: Regional Systems of Innovation and High-tech ClustersPhilip Cooke and Carla de LaurentisPART III: NETWORK EVOLUTION AND GEOGRAPHY12. Clusters, Networks and Economic Development: An Evolutionary Economics PerspectiveElisa Giuliani13. Reputation, Trust and Relational Centrality in Local Networks: An Evolutionary Geography PerspectiveStefano Denicolai, Antonella Zucchella and Gabriele Cioccarelli14. The Evolution of a Strategic Alliance Network: Exploring the Case of Stock PhotographyJohannes Glückler15. Complexity, Networks and Knowledge Flows Olav Sorenson, Jan W. Rivkin and Lee Fleming16. The Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: The Role of Inventors’ Mobility Across Firms and in SpaceStefano Breschi, Camilla Lenzi, Francesco Lissoni and Andrea Vezzulli17. Growth, Development and Structural Change of Innovator Networks: The Case of JenaUwe Cantner and Holger GrafPART IV: INSTITUTIONS, CO-EVOLUTION AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY18. An Evolutionary Approach to Localized Learning and Spatial ClusteringAnders Malmberg and Peter Maskell19. Path Dependence and Path Plasticity: The Co-evolution of Institutions and Innovation – the German Customized Business Software IndustrySimone Strambach20. On the Notion of Co-evolution in Economic GeographyEike W. Schamp21. Locked in Decline? On the Role of Regional Lock-ins in Old Industrial AreasRobert HassinkPART V: STRUCTURAL CHANGE, AGGLOMERATION EXTERNALITIES AND REGIONAL BRANCHING22. The Evolution of Spatial Patterns over Long Time-Horizons: The Relation with Technology and Economic DevelopmentJan Lambooy23. The Information Economy and its Spatial Evolution in English CitiesJames Simmie24. An Evolutionary Model of Firms’ Location with Technological ExternalitiesGiulio Bottazzi and Pietro DindoIndex

‘The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography is a comprehensive collection of topics in the newly emerging paradigm of evolutionary economic geography. . . The introduction, like those in any good collection, links up the papers in this Handbook by the basis of an evolutionary thinking behind the wide scales of topics. . . the 24 articles included in The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography have a wide coverage of varying angles, all of which shed light on this emerging paradigm from different aspects. . . this book has definitely achieved its goal of ''playing a formative role in influencing the future research agenda in this area''. It is therefore highly recommended to researchers who want to dip further into evolutionary economic geography or those who simply want to get an overall profile of its development.’