The restructuring of old industrial areas in East Asia

Hassink, Robert; Hu, Xiaohui; Shin, Dong-Ho; Yamamura, Sakura; Gong, Huiwen

doi:10.1080/23792949.2017.1413405

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“…While studies in economic geography tend to stress the positive effects of geographical clustering on growth, Hassink elaborates on the idea that clusters may also end up in a state of negative lock-in (see also Hassink, 2005;Schamp, 2005;Hassink and Shin, 2005). In his contribution, Hassink makes the case that the emergence and persistence of these negative effects can be well explained by an evolutionary economic geography approach.…”

Section: Part 4 Institutions Co-evolution and Economic Geographymentioning

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The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography

Boschma¹,

Martin²

2010

The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography

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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.

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Section: Part 4 Institutions Co-evolution and Economic Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography

Boschma¹,

Martin²

2010

The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography

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“…An equally important role in explaining these transformations has been played by analyses of specific regions traditionally perceived as industrial or postindustrial, such as Ruhrgebiet (Knapp, 1998;Van Dijk, 2002;Eckart, 2003), the Ostrava region (Sucháček, 2005(Sucháček, , 2010Hruška-Tvrdý, 2010;Rumpel nad Slach, 2012), Donbas (Swain, 2007), Nord/Pas-de-Calais (Leboutte, 2009), the Katowice conurbation (Klasik and Heffner, 2001;Tkocz, 2001Tkocz, , 2003Domański, 2002;Mikołajec, 2008) and others (Cooke, 1995;Hassink and Shin, 2005;Trippl and Otto, 2009;Wirth et al, 2012). Although research results and conclusions in some of these works are diverse, as a whole they form the bases for a critical analysis of the issues under discussion here.…”

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Some dilemmas of post-industrialism in a region of traditional industry: The case of the Katowice conurbation, Poland

Krzysztofik¹,

Tkocz²,

Spórna³

et al. 2016

Moravian Geographical Reports

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The problem of using the concept of post-industrialism to define regions with traditional industries is addressed in this article. It focuses on the diversity of industrial development in the Katowice conurbation (Poland) and the difficulties of situating the region in the widely-used taxonomy by Phelps and Ozawa, which assumes a one-way transition from the late-industrial to post-industrial stage. The authors point to the fact that only some of the towns can be described as post-industrial, since there are also towns in which traditional industries continue to develop relatively well and others at an advanced stage of re-industrialisation. The proposal is made that the Katowice conurbation can be described as a "trans-industrial region" in order to account for the various stages of development in the industrial sector in the towns of the conurbation, and to underline the dynamic nature and temporal variability of the industrialisation factor in the region.

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“…8 "It is, perhaps, at this stage worth noting how later generations of mainly Anglo-Saxon scholars by deliberat e decision or following the prevailing tradition in contemporary economic geography gradually turned to producing very descriptive, ideographic work…[which replaced former economics -based cluster explanations with] "…a one-sided model that addressed the existence argument in novel ways but almost totally disregarded the extension and exhaustion arguments" (Maskell and Kebir, 2005, p. 6). Hassink and Dong -Ho (2005) indirectly supports their view, by observing that many contemporary cluster scholars "…belong to the recently coined family of territorial innovation models….They increasingly turned from "economic" reasons for growth of new industrial agglomerations to 'social' and 'cultural' reasons... (p. 571, emphasis supplied).…”

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confidence: 82%

Cluster Life-cycles: An Emerging Synthesis

Bergman¹

2008

Handbook of Research on Cluster Theory

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The restructuring of old industrial areas in East Asia

Cited by 50 publications

References 52 publications

The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography

The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography

Some dilemmas of post-industrialism in a region of traditional industry: The case of the Katowice conurbation, Poland

Cluster Life-cycles: An Emerging Synthesis

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