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• Title:
  Mapping paradigm shifts in the geography of innovation
• Creator:
  Oláh, Dániel;
  Alpek, Levente Balázs
• Description:
  The study quantifies important theoretical tendencies in the geography of innovation in a historical view based on a novel big-data approach. It shows that the field was “born” only in the nineteen eighties after long periods (i.e. the first half of the 20th century) of analysing economic growth and regional development without endogenising the production process of innovation. The paper presents important shifts in the basic assumptions of models with the increasing use of the terms “economic instability” or “asymmetric information” instead of “economic equilibrium” and “perfect information”. These mean a deviation from traditional neoclassical regional economics, which is reflected in the fact that “geography of innovation” gained the same level of popularity in the 2000s as “industrial geography”. The paper shows that although the decline of the Marshallian term “industrial district” stopped in parallel with the work of Becattini, a new innovation systems theory took over the relative frequency of mention of the industrial district by the turn of the new millennium.;
  The study quantifies important theoretical tendencies in the geographyof innovation in a historical view based on a novel big-data approach. It shows thatthe field was “born” only in the nineteen eighties after long periods (i.e. the firsthalf of the 20th century) of analysing economic growth and regional developmentwithout endogenising the production process of innovation. The paper presentsimportant shifts in the basic assumptions of models with the increasing use of theterms “economic instability” or “asymmetric information” instead of “economicequilibrium” and “perfect information”. These mean a deviation from traditionalneoclassical regional economics, which is reflected in the fact that “geographyof innovation” gained the same level of popularity in the 2000s as “industrialgeography”. The paper shows that although the decline of the Marshallianterm “industrial district” stopped in parallel with the work of Becattini, a newinnovation systems theory took over the relative frequency of mention of theindustrial district by the turn of the new millennium.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2021 Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
• Date:
  2021.09.29
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  "big data"
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series; No. 53 (2021): September; 55-69;
  Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series; Nr 53 (2021): September; 55-69;
  2083-8298;
  1732-4254
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/BGSS/article/view/32012/30110
• Subject:
  regional economics;
  geography;
  development;
  history of thought;
  geography of innovation
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/BGSS/article/view/32012
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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