An invitation to the dark side of economic geography

Phelps, Nicholas A.; Atienza, Miguel; Arias, Martín

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“…Research on evolutionary economic geography has been criticised for not paying enough attention to the societal dimension of economic development, such as how economic growth, innovation, or other performance measurements relate to wealth distribution and social inequality. Much research takes a rather uncritical approach towards the societal advantages that may arise from industrial development, instead of acknowledging potentially problematic aspects and negative externalities (Phelps et al, 2017). For instance, a strong relationship between the growth of the larger KIBS sector and rising socio-economic inequality has been found in the Norwegian capital-city region (Wessel, 2013).…”

Section: Limitations and Implications For Further Researchmentioning

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Urban concentration and labour market linkages in the Norwegian ICT services sector

Jøranli

Herstad

2017

European Planning Studies

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Section: Limitations and Implications For Further Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban concentration and labour market linkages in the Norwegian ICT services sector

Jøranli

Herstad

2017

European Planning Studies

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“…That is to say, paradoxically, e‐commerce may have both positive and negative effects on specialized markets. Thus, it is of great urgency to examine what the “dark‐side” impact of e‐commerce on conventional specialized markets is (Phelps, Atienza, & Arias, 2018). More importantly, it is worthwhile for scholars to explore how e‐commerce co‐evolves with offline market platforms and their related economies over time and space, and what the theoretical meaning of E‐commerce is for economic geography (Wei et al., 2019).…”

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Spatio‐temporal dynamics of technical efficiency in China’s specialized markets: A stochastic frontier analysis approach

Zhang

2020

Growth and Change

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China’s specialized markets as a special form of bottom‐up capital agglomeration have played a key role in fostering regional development. It once exhibited positive externalities with high efficiencies. However, given the rapid proliferation of specialized markets and the penetration of E‐commerce, their advantages may have shifted and the understanding of this shift is limited. The paper explores the spatio‐temporal dynamics of China’s specialized markets in terms of technical efficiency. Based on turnover data from Statistical Yearbooks of China Commodity Exchange Market from 2000 to 2016, technical efficiencies in specialized markets are measured by a Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) approach using panel data. The results show that (a) the technical efficiencies in China’s specialized markets are significantly divergent in space over time; (b) labor input has notable effect on efficiency increase, while capital input has no significant effect; (c) informatization level, cluster size, and degree of market openness are identified to have a positive effect on specialized market’s technical efficiency. This paper argues that specialized markets should be taken seriously in the cluster evolution research. The role of proximity and the bounded links between specialized markets and their local clusters is the key to understanding their changing forms, performances, and trajectories.

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“…A normative turn in regional innovation policy discourses has equally been motivated by perceived limitations of regional innovation system approaches to address the challenges of regional economic restructuring (Tödtling & Trippl, 2018). Much of the regional innovation policy literature has been seen as too focussed on technological innovation (Jeannerat & Crevoisier, 2016) and biased towards successful agglomerations (Eder, 2018), implicitly assuming that innovation and diversification are positive per se (Phelps, Atienza, & Arias, 2018). Increasing within-country inequalities and growing discontent amongst places left behind by globalization (Rodríguez-Pose, 2018) have forced a debate around balancing economic gains from innovation with greater territorial and social equity (Iammarino, Rodríguez-Pose, & Storper, 2018;Barca, 2009).…”

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Exploring the normative turn in regional innovation policy: responsibility and the quest for public value

Uyarra

Ribeiro

Dale-Clough

2019

European Planning Studies

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The perceived ineffectiveness of traditional innovation policies in solving societal challenges such as poverty, ageing, climate change as well as problems of regional economic restructuring has motivated a recent 'normative turn' in innovation policy. This has shifted the debate on the rationales for intervention from market and system failures to accommodate more transformative views but also other approaches rooted in the notion of public value and has led innovation scholars to question not just the how and how much of innovation but also key issues of directionality, legitimacy and responsibility. By engaging the processes through which actors 'know, investigate and perform innovation', we argue that the concept of responsible research and innovation (RRI) offers a potentially useful lens for re-casting our understanding of innovationrelated decision making. We apply RRI to assessing the opportunities and challenges of public procurement as an instrument of challengeoriented and transformative innovation policy. More specifically, we look at how local authorities in the UK are using the Social Value Act to define priorities and articulate demand around social, environmental and community needs as well as coordinate different processes and actors, policy levers and processes. ARTICLE HISTORY

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An invitation to the dark side of economic geography

Abstract: This exchange urges economic geographers working within several major extant schools of thought to pay greater attention to uneven economic development in general and the dark side of the economic geographies in particular.

Cited by 96 publications

References 72 publications

Urban concentration and labour market linkages in the Norwegian ICT services sector

Urban concentration and labour market linkages in the Norwegian ICT services sector

Spatio‐temporal dynamics of technical efficiency in China’s specialized markets: A stochastic frontier analysis approach

Exploring the normative turn in regional innovation policy: responsibility and the quest for public value

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