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 …

There is widespread consensus in academic and policy debates that knowledge and
innovation are eminently important for securing competitiveness, dynamic growth and …

In rapidly changing regional economies, less innovative European regions (henceforth
referred to as lagging-behind regions) must actively work to reduce the gap between them …

Over the past few years, scholarly debates on new path development have attracted
increasing attention within the economic geography literature. This work distinguishes …

The evolutionary turn in economic geography has shed new light on historically contingent
regional preconditions for innovation and economic growth, which has the potential of …

Regional energy transitions are largely understood as technology-driven processes. We
argue that social innovation (SI) is as important and that scrutinizing it calls for an agency …

Building on the neo-endogenous rural development model and the resource-based view of
the firm, this paper investigates the role of place-based amenities for new firm formation …

The term “social innovation”(SI) is currently applied to denote a broad range of activities
connected to explicit goals and supposedly designed to address inherent societal problems …

Universities and other knowledge institutions have quickly come to be seen as central to
smart specialisation. However, their exact role in Research and Innovation Strategies for …

abstract This article argues that the development of regional innovation concepts, drawing
primarily on the experiences of advanced regions, has led to inadequate narratives about …