Evolving regional economies : resources, specialization, globalization / Martin Henning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henning, Martin Svensson, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regional economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 pages)

Place of Publication:

England : Agenda Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

Martin Henning explores why economic growth and transformation is essentially a regionally based and spatially dependent process and introduces the core ideas involved in understanding the dynamics of regional economies drawing on case studies to illuminate these ideas in practice.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

1 Regional economies, but global too

The importance of regional economic change and long-term growth

A regional lens on a global economy, where distances matter less and places matter more

A regional lens on what firms do

Regional economic change and growth: production and productivity

Regional divergence, development and policy

The outline of the book

Discussion points

2 Evolutionary economic geography

Evolutionary economic geography: how and why regional economies change across time

Novelty, diversification and evolution

Retention and evolution

Selection and evolution

A global perspective on regional economic evolution

Evolutions, relations and time

3 Time geography

Space and time

Coordination of people and things

Constraints and prism

4 An evolutionary perspective on economic production

What is produced?

Cars

Resources, uses and capabilities

Objections and overall lessons

5 Resources in firms and in regions

What resources are

Resources and geography: resource portability

Resource appropriability

Resource specificity

Resource properties in combination

6 Creation, use and curation of regional resources

Change in regional resource repertoires

Regional resource creation

Regional resource use

Regional resource curation

Creation, use and curation

7 Regional economic change: path dependency and radical transformation

More evolution!

Incremental industrial change and branching processes

Regional branching, related diversification and regional path dependency

Industrial change and structural change

Relatedness and structural change.

Discussion points

8 Agglomerations

What is happening within regions and agglomerations?

Agglomeration advantages

Agglomerations and time: the dynamic movement

The relatedness idea and regional economic coherence

Agglomerations, resource creation and resource curation

Localization advantages, related activities and incremental industrial change

Variation advantages, incremental and structural change

How regional economic change sometimes works: radical change where agglomerations have little impact

Agency

9 Evolutionary economic geography and time geography

Globalization, regional resource uses and time geography

Generalizing "individuals" to "resources" in time-space

How time geography constraints affect the creation, use and curation of regional resources

Cars again

Changed constraints

10 The secular change: globalization, decreased constraints and the portability of resource use

What goes on between regions and agglomerations in a globalized economy?

Decreased constraints underpinning globalization

Globalization, portability of resource uses and regional economic change

Use imports, and cars and trucks for the last time!

Export of resource use

11 Conclusions

Policy as a regional resource

Resource creation and use

Resource curation

Capability branching: smart specialization

Next steps

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Henning, Martin Evolving Regional Economies

ISBN:

9781788214100

1788214102

OCLC:

1305914187