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Research paper thumbnail of Editorial: Of journals, oil tankers and citation impacts: Signing‐off the editorship of Regional Studies

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 01402390500405094, Aug 18, 2010

... RON MARTIN*, MIA GRAY*, PETER TYLER†, JOHN MCCOMBIE†, BERNARD FINGLETON†, MICHAEL KITSON‡, BJ... more ... RON MARTIN*, MIA GRAY*, PETER TYLER†, JOHN MCCOMBIE†, BERNARD FINGLETON†, MICHAEL KITSON‡, BJØRN ASHEIM§ and AMY GLASMEIER¶ *Department of Geography, †Department of Land Economy and ‡Judge Business School ... Its central aim was to build ...

Research paper thumbnail of Regional Venture Capital Policy UKand Germany Compared

... UK and Germany Compared Professor Ron Martin*, Dr Christian Berndt**, Dr Britta Klagge***,Pro... more ... UK and Germany Compared Professor Ron Martin*, Dr Christian Berndt**, Dr Britta Klagge***,Professor Peter J. Sunley†, ... Professor Rolf Sternberg (Research Advisor)‡ ... Special thanks are due to Ray Cunningham and Ann Pfeiffer at the AGF for their advice and guidance. ...

Research paper thumbnail of A Slow Convergence? The New Theory of Endogenous Growth and Regional Development

Geographie Economie Societe, Jun 1, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of The Rise of Cultural Economic Geography

Research paper thumbnail of On the Notion of Regional Economic Resilience: Conceptualisation and Explanation

Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography, Oct 1, 2013

ABSTRACT Over the past few years a new buzzword has entered academic, political and public discou... more ABSTRACT Over the past few years a new buzzword has entered academic, political and public discourse: the notion of resilience, a term invoked to describe how an entity or system responds to shocks and disturbances. Although the concept has been used for some time in ecology and psychology, it is now invoked in diverse contexts, both as a perceived (and typically positive) attribute of an object, entity or system and, more normatively, as a desired feature that should somehow be promoted or fostered. As part of this development, the notion of resilience is rapidly becoming part of the conceptual and analytical lexicon of regional and local economic studies: there is increasing interest in the resilience of regional, local and urban economies. Further, resilience is rapidly emerging as an idea 'whose time has come' in policy debates: a new imperative of 'constructing' or 'building' regional and urban economic resilience is gaining currency. However, this rush to use the idea of regional and local economic resilience in policy circles has arguably run somewhat ahead of our understanding of the concept. There is still considerable ambiguity about what, precisely, is meant by the notion of regional economic resilience, about how it should be conceptualized and measured, what its determinants are, and how it links to patterns of long-run regional growth. The aim of this article is to address these and related questions on the meaning and explanation of regional economic resilience and thereby to outline the directions of a research agenda.

Research paper thumbnail of Locating the New Deal

Putting Workfare in Place, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluating the impact of the structural funds on objective 1 regions: An exploratory discussion

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 00343400600600546, Jan 23, 2007

Martin R. and Tyler P. (2006) Evaluating the impact of the Structural Funds on Objective 1 region... more Martin R. and Tyler P. (2006) Evaluating the impact of the Structural Funds on Objective 1 regions: an exploratory discussion, Regional Studies40, 201–210. Evaluation evidence on the impact of the Structural Funds on employment in Objective 1 regions remains elusive. This paper seeks to make a contribution to this task by evaluating the impact of European Union regional policy on

Research paper thumbnail of Redundancies, labour turnover and employment contraction in the recession: A regional analysis

Reg Stud, 1984

Martin RL (1984) Redundancies, labour turnover and employment contraction in the recession: a reg... more Martin RL (1984) Redundancies, labour turnover and employment contraction in the recession: a regional analysis, Reg. Studies 18, 445-458. The rapid decline of the British economy during the current recession has generated considerable interest in the geography of ...

Research paper thumbnail of Job Loss and the Regional Incidence of Redundancies in the Current Recession

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Dec 1, 1982

Industrial change is a two-sided process: it both creates new plants, production methods and jobs... more Industrial change is a two-sided process: it both creates new plants, production methods and jobs and displaces others at present in operation. But the two sides of this process rarely coincide in time or space, and in Britain over the past fifteen years or so the develop-ment path of ...

Research paper thumbnail of Localising Welfare‐to‐Work?

This chapter contains section titled: Local Flexibility and the New Deal for Young PeoplePartners... more This chapter contains section titled: Local Flexibility and the New Deal for Young PeoplePartnership-Building and Co-ordinationPolicy Learning and AdaptationInnovation and ExperimentationResource TargetingWork-First Flexibility?ConclusionsLocal Flexibility and the New Deal for Young PeoplePartnership-Building and Co-ordinationPolicy Learning and AdaptationInnovation and ExperimentationResource TargetingWork-First Flexibility?Conclusions

Research paper thumbnail of Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography-Rethinking Regional Path Dependence: Beyond Lock-in to Evolution: ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

Econ Geogr, 2009

1. The Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography was established to honor the late Professor Howard G.... more 1. The Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography was established to honor the late Professor Howard G. Roepke, who served on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1952–1985. The original lecture series ran at the annual meetings of the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Clusters & Regional Development

Research paper thumbnail of Does spatial agglomeration increase national growth? some evidence from Europe

Abstract Economic geographers and regional economists have long been concerned with the problems ... more Abstract Economic geographers and regional economists have long been concerned with the problems provoked by uneven regional development and the ways by which policy intervention may be able to reduce such inequalities. However, in recent years the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Reindustrialising regions: rebuilding the manufacturing economy?

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Institutional Approaches in Economic Geography

A Companion to Economic Geography, 2003

... the pervasiveness and im-portance of social institutions in economic life (for example ... ar... more ... the pervasiveness and im-portance of social institutions in economic life (for example ... are regarded as particularly significant elements of the institutional regulatory framework of ... and consortia, research bodies, mar-keting agencies, employment and training agencies, and so on ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography

The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography, 2010

This aim of this paper is to present the objectives and scope of an evolutionary approach to econ... more This aim of this paper is to present the objectives and scope of an evolutionary approach to economic geography. We argue that the goal is not only to utilise the concepts and ideas from evolutionary economics (and evolutionary thinking more broadly) to help interpret and explain how the economic landscape changes over historical time, but also to reveal how situating the economy in space adds to our understanding of the processes that drive economic evolution, that is to say, to demonstrate how geography matters in determining the nature and trajectory of evolution of the economic system. We will argue that evolutionary economic geography is concerned with the spatialities of economic novelty; with how the spatial structures of the economy emerge from the micro-behaviours of economic agents; with how, in the absence of central coordination or direction, the economic landscape exhibits self-organisation; and with how the processes of path creation and path dependence interact to shape geographies of economic development and transformation, and why and how such processes may themselves be place dependent. Economic transformation proceeds differently in different places, and the mechanisms involved neither originate nor operate evenly across space. Our concern is both with the ways in which the forces making for economic change, adaptation and novelty shape and reshape the geographies of wealth creation, work and welfare, and with how the spatial structures and features so produced themselves feed back to influence the forces driving economic evolution. In the final part, we summarize a number of papers that have contributed to evolutionary economic geography, and which will be published in The Handbook on Evolutionary Economic Geography that is edited by the two authors, and forthcoming at Edward Elgar.

Research paper thumbnail of Path Dependence and the Spatial Economy: A Key Concept in Retrospect and Prospect

Handbook of Regional Science, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Keys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development By Michael Storper Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of The Place of Path Dependence in an Evolutionary Perspective on the Economic Landscape

The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of On the notion of regional economic resilience: conceptualization and explanation

Journal of Economic Geography, 2014

ABSTRACT Over the past few years a new buzzword has entered academic, political and public discou... more ABSTRACT Over the past few years a new buzzword has entered academic, political and public discourse: the notion of resilience, a term invoked to describe how an entity or system responds to shocks and disturbances. Although the concept has been used for some time in ecology and psychology, it is now invoked in diverse contexts, both as a perceived (and typically positive) attribute of an object, entity or system and, more normatively, as a desired feature that should somehow be promoted or fostered. As part of this development, the notion of resilience is rapidly becoming part of the conceptual and analytical lexicon of regional and local economic studies: there is increasing interest in the resilience of regional, local and urban economies. Further, resilience is rapidly emerging as an idea 'whose time has come' in policy debates: a new imperative of 'constructing' or 'building' regional and urban economic resilience is gaining currency. However, this rush to use the idea of regional and local economic resilience in policy circles has arguably run somewhat ahead of our understanding of the concept. There is still considerable ambiguity about what, precisely, is meant by the notion of regional economic resilience, about how it should be conceptualized and measured, what its determinants are, and how it links to patterns of long-run regional growth. The aim of this article is to address these and related questions on the meaning and explanation of regional economic resilience and thereby to outline the directions of a research agenda.

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial: Of journals, oil tankers and citation impacts: Signing‐off the editorship of Regional Studies

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 01402390500405094, Aug 18, 2010

... RON MARTIN*, MIA GRAY*, PETER TYLER†, JOHN MCCOMBIE†, BERNARD FINGLETON†, MICHAEL KITSON‡, BJ... more ... RON MARTIN*, MIA GRAY*, PETER TYLER†, JOHN MCCOMBIE†, BERNARD FINGLETON†, MICHAEL KITSON‡, BJØRN ASHEIM§ and AMY GLASMEIER¶ *Department of Geography, †Department of Land Economy and ‡Judge Business School ... Its central aim was to build ...

Research paper thumbnail of Regional Venture Capital Policy UKand Germany Compared

... UK and Germany Compared Professor Ron Martin*, Dr Christian Berndt**, Dr Britta Klagge***,Pro... more ... UK and Germany Compared Professor Ron Martin*, Dr Christian Berndt**, Dr Britta Klagge***,Professor Peter J. Sunley†, ... Professor Rolf Sternberg (Research Advisor)‡ ... Special thanks are due to Ray Cunningham and Ann Pfeiffer at the AGF for their advice and guidance. ...

Research paper thumbnail of A Slow Convergence? The New Theory of Endogenous Growth and Regional Development

Geographie Economie Societe, Jun 1, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of The Rise of Cultural Economic Geography

Research paper thumbnail of On the Notion of Regional Economic Resilience: Conceptualisation and Explanation

Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography, Oct 1, 2013

ABSTRACT Over the past few years a new buzzword has entered academic, political and public discou... more ABSTRACT Over the past few years a new buzzword has entered academic, political and public discourse: the notion of resilience, a term invoked to describe how an entity or system responds to shocks and disturbances. Although the concept has been used for some time in ecology and psychology, it is now invoked in diverse contexts, both as a perceived (and typically positive) attribute of an object, entity or system and, more normatively, as a desired feature that should somehow be promoted or fostered. As part of this development, the notion of resilience is rapidly becoming part of the conceptual and analytical lexicon of regional and local economic studies: there is increasing interest in the resilience of regional, local and urban economies. Further, resilience is rapidly emerging as an idea 'whose time has come' in policy debates: a new imperative of 'constructing' or 'building' regional and urban economic resilience is gaining currency. However, this rush to use the idea of regional and local economic resilience in policy circles has arguably run somewhat ahead of our understanding of the concept. There is still considerable ambiguity about what, precisely, is meant by the notion of regional economic resilience, about how it should be conceptualized and measured, what its determinants are, and how it links to patterns of long-run regional growth. The aim of this article is to address these and related questions on the meaning and explanation of regional economic resilience and thereby to outline the directions of a research agenda.

Research paper thumbnail of Locating the New Deal

Putting Workfare in Place, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluating the impact of the structural funds on objective 1 regions: An exploratory discussion

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 00343400600600546, Jan 23, 2007

Martin R. and Tyler P. (2006) Evaluating the impact of the Structural Funds on Objective 1 region... more Martin R. and Tyler P. (2006) Evaluating the impact of the Structural Funds on Objective 1 regions: an exploratory discussion, Regional Studies40, 201–210. Evaluation evidence on the impact of the Structural Funds on employment in Objective 1 regions remains elusive. This paper seeks to make a contribution to this task by evaluating the impact of European Union regional policy on

Research paper thumbnail of Redundancies, labour turnover and employment contraction in the recession: A regional analysis

Reg Stud, 1984

Martin RL (1984) Redundancies, labour turnover and employment contraction in the recession: a reg... more Martin RL (1984) Redundancies, labour turnover and employment contraction in the recession: a regional analysis, Reg. Studies 18, 445-458. The rapid decline of the British economy during the current recession has generated considerable interest in the geography of ...

Research paper thumbnail of Job Loss and the Regional Incidence of Redundancies in the Current Recession

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Dec 1, 1982

Industrial change is a two-sided process: it both creates new plants, production methods and jobs... more Industrial change is a two-sided process: it both creates new plants, production methods and jobs and displaces others at present in operation. But the two sides of this process rarely coincide in time or space, and in Britain over the past fifteen years or so the develop-ment path of ...

Research paper thumbnail of Localising Welfare‐to‐Work?

This chapter contains section titled: Local Flexibility and the New Deal for Young PeoplePartners... more This chapter contains section titled: Local Flexibility and the New Deal for Young PeoplePartnership-Building and Co-ordinationPolicy Learning and AdaptationInnovation and ExperimentationResource TargetingWork-First Flexibility?ConclusionsLocal Flexibility and the New Deal for Young PeoplePartnership-Building and Co-ordinationPolicy Learning and AdaptationInnovation and ExperimentationResource TargetingWork-First Flexibility?Conclusions

Research paper thumbnail of Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography-Rethinking Regional Path Dependence: Beyond Lock-in to Evolution: ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

Econ Geogr, 2009

1. The Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography was established to honor the late Professor Howard G.... more 1. The Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography was established to honor the late Professor Howard G. Roepke, who served on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1952–1985. The original lecture series ran at the annual meetings of the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Clusters & Regional Development

Research paper thumbnail of Does spatial agglomeration increase national growth? some evidence from Europe

Abstract Economic geographers and regional economists have long been concerned with the problems ... more Abstract Economic geographers and regional economists have long been concerned with the problems provoked by uneven regional development and the ways by which policy intervention may be able to reduce such inequalities. However, in recent years the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Reindustrialising regions: rebuilding the manufacturing economy?

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Institutional Approaches in Economic Geography

A Companion to Economic Geography, 2003

... the pervasiveness and im-portance of social institutions in economic life (for example ... ar... more ... the pervasiveness and im-portance of social institutions in economic life (for example ... are regarded as particularly significant elements of the institutional regulatory framework of ... and consortia, research bodies, mar-keting agencies, employment and training agencies, and so on ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography

The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography, 2010

This aim of this paper is to present the objectives and scope of an evolutionary approach to econ... more This aim of this paper is to present the objectives and scope of an evolutionary approach to economic geography. We argue that the goal is not only to utilise the concepts and ideas from evolutionary economics (and evolutionary thinking more broadly) to help interpret and explain how the economic landscape changes over historical time, but also to reveal how situating the economy in space adds to our understanding of the processes that drive economic evolution, that is to say, to demonstrate how geography matters in determining the nature and trajectory of evolution of the economic system. We will argue that evolutionary economic geography is concerned with the spatialities of economic novelty; with how the spatial structures of the economy emerge from the micro-behaviours of economic agents; with how, in the absence of central coordination or direction, the economic landscape exhibits self-organisation; and with how the processes of path creation and path dependence interact to shape geographies of economic development and transformation, and why and how such processes may themselves be place dependent. Economic transformation proceeds differently in different places, and the mechanisms involved neither originate nor operate evenly across space. Our concern is both with the ways in which the forces making for economic change, adaptation and novelty shape and reshape the geographies of wealth creation, work and welfare, and with how the spatial structures and features so produced themselves feed back to influence the forces driving economic evolution. In the final part, we summarize a number of papers that have contributed to evolutionary economic geography, and which will be published in The Handbook on Evolutionary Economic Geography that is edited by the two authors, and forthcoming at Edward Elgar.

Research paper thumbnail of Path Dependence and the Spatial Economy: A Key Concept in Retrospect and Prospect

Handbook of Regional Science, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Keys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development By Michael Storper Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of The Place of Path Dependence in an Evolutionary Perspective on the Economic Landscape

The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of On the notion of regional economic resilience: conceptualization and explanation

Journal of Economic Geography, 2014

ABSTRACT Over the past few years a new buzzword has entered academic, political and public discou... more ABSTRACT Over the past few years a new buzzword has entered academic, political and public discourse: the notion of resilience, a term invoked to describe how an entity or system responds to shocks and disturbances. Although the concept has been used for some time in ecology and psychology, it is now invoked in diverse contexts, both as a perceived (and typically positive) attribute of an object, entity or system and, more normatively, as a desired feature that should somehow be promoted or fostered. As part of this development, the notion of resilience is rapidly becoming part of the conceptual and analytical lexicon of regional and local economic studies: there is increasing interest in the resilience of regional, local and urban economies. Further, resilience is rapidly emerging as an idea 'whose time has come' in policy debates: a new imperative of 'constructing' or 'building' regional and urban economic resilience is gaining currency. However, this rush to use the idea of regional and local economic resilience in policy circles has arguably run somewhat ahead of our understanding of the concept. There is still considerable ambiguity about what, precisely, is meant by the notion of regional economic resilience, about how it should be conceptualized and measured, what its determinants are, and how it links to patterns of long-run regional growth. The aim of this article is to address these and related questions on the meaning and explanation of regional economic resilience and thereby to outline the directions of a research agenda.