Description
Book SynopsisRegional issues are increasingly debated across the social sciences. In an age of globalization, the region has come to matter perhaps more than before. In business, companies orient themselves to engage in regional environments to build capabilities and create critical mass in their vicinity. In the world of policy, almost one-third of the EU budget is spent on regional policy. Yet in spite of this the differences between regions that do well and those that do not are increasing in both Europe and the United States.
In recent years, evolutionary economic geography has done much to create a framework to inform regional policy and academic work. Using its insights, Martin Henning explores why economic growth and transformation is an essentially regionally based and spatially dependent process. The book offers an accessible introduction to the core ideas involved in understanding the dynamics of regional economies and draws on case studies to illuminate these ideas in practice.
Trade ReviewThis textbook is an outstanding and thought-provoking piece of work on evolutionary economic geography by one of its leading scholars, which shows how important it is to combine time and space to understand processes of globalization and regional economic change. It is an absolute must-read for students, scientists and policy practicioners that want to become acquainted with this exciting body of literature. -- Ron Boschma, Professor in Regional Economics, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and Chair in Innovation Studies, Stavanger University, Norway
Martin Henning successfully combines evolutionary economic geography and time geography in a unique textbook for economic geographers. -- Robert Hassink, Professor of Economic Geography, Kiel University, Germany
Martin Henning’s book clearly fills a gap, being the first English-speaking textbook on evolutionary economic geography... Henning not only develops his own stratified model of resources and capabilities in regional economic change but also combines evolutionary economic geography with time geography, and by doing that, he contributes to recent work on globalisation in evolutionary economic geography... I highly recommend this unique textbook to economic geographers.
-- Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
Table of Contents1. Regional economies, but global too2. Evolutionary economic geography
3. Time geography
4. An evolutionary perspective to economic production
5. Resources in firms and in regions
6. Creation, use and curation of regional resources
7. Regional economic change: path dependency and radical transformation
8. Agglomerations
9. Evolutionary economic geography and time geography
10. The secular change: globalization, decreased constraints and the portability of resource use
Conclusions
