Regional Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Regional Studies is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Towards an entrepreneurial ecosystem typology for regional economic development: the role of creative class and entrepreneurship107
Complementary interregional linkages and Smart Specialisation: an empirical study on European regions106
Integrated, adaptive and participatory spatial planning: trends across Europe84
Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks76
Does lockdown work? A spatial analysis of the spread and concentration of Covid-19 in Italy69
Change agency and reproductive agency in the course of industrial path evolution62
Regional economic resilience in China: measurement and determinants61
Mapping the potentials of regions in Europe to contribute to new knowledge production in Industry 4.0 technologies60
‘Left behind places’: a geographical etymology57
Digital economy in the UK: regional productivity effects of early adoption52
Geographical Indications and local development: the strength of territorial embeddedness51
Do EU regions benefit from Smart Specialisation principles?41
Contextualizing agency in new path development: how system selectivity shapes regional reconfiguration capacity41
The dark side of the geography of innovation: relatedness, complexity and regional inequality in Europe40
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?40
The impact of regional inequality on economic growth: a spatial econometric approach39
Regions in Covid-19 recovery38
Changing roles of the state in the financialization of urban development throughchengtouin China38
Polycentric urban regions: conceptualization, identification and implications37
The geography of Industry 4.0 technologies across European regions37
The foundational economy and regional development36
‘Buzz-and-pipeline’ dynamics in Chinese science: the impact of interurban collaboration linkages on cities’ innovation capacity35
Pathways of regional transformation and Industry 4.033
Spillovers across industries and regions in China’s regional economic diversification33
Place-based industrial strategy and economic trajectory: advancing agency-based approaches32
Legitimation, institutions and regional path creation: a cross-national study of offshore wind32
The new normative: synergistic scenario planning for carbon-neutral cities and regions31
(Digital) neo-colonialism in the smart city30
Smart cities and sustainable development30
Spatial structure and productivity in European regions29
Legitimation dynamics in industrial path development: new-to-the-world versus new-to-the-region industries28
Emerging industries: institutions, legitimacy and system-level agency27
Smart cities and urban inequality27
Regional resentment in the Netherlands: A rural or peripheral phenomenon?26
Does Cohesion Policy reduce EU discontent and Euroscepticism?26
Varieties of periphery and local agency in regional development26
Polycentric urban structure and innovation: evidence from a panel of Chinese cities25
Rebalancing UK regional and industrial policy post-Brexit and post-Covid-19: lessons learned and priorities for the future25
Regions and trademarks: research opportunities and policy insights from leveraging trademarks in regional innovation studies25
Towards a problem-oriented regional industrial policy: possibilities for public intervention in framing, valuation and market formation25
Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis25
Can the Internet narrow regional economic disparities?24
The rise of urban tech: how innovations for cities come from cities24
Regional planning: an arena of interests, institutions and relations24
Going beyond the line of sight: institutional entrepreneurship and system agency in regional path creation24
Network governance and coordination of a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem24
Reconsidering regional structural conditions for industrial renewal24
Do airport activities affect regional economies? Regional analysis of New Zealand’s airport system23
A multi-scalar view of urban financialization: urban development and local government bonds in China23
Towards an integrated framework of agency in regional development: the case of old industrial regions23
The Covid-19 shock in European regions23
Industry 4.0 in industrial districts: regional innovation policy for the Toy Valley district in Spain22
Retheorizing industrial–institutional coevolution: a multidimensional perspective22
4.0 Technologies and the rise of new islands of innovation in European regions22
Level best? The levelling up agenda and UK regional inequality21
Institutional relatedness and the emergence of renewable energy cooperatives in German districts21
Entrepreneurship education and firm creation21
Digital urban production: how does Industry 4.0 reconfigure productive value creation in urban contexts?20
New path creation in the artificial intelligence industry: regional preconditions, new actors and their collective actions, and policies20
Whither regional planning?20
Image and reality: ‘digital twins’ in smart factory automotive process innovation – critical issues19
Regional industrial policy in times of big disruption: building dynamic capabilities in regions19
Peri-urban transformation in the Global South: a comparative socio-spatial analytics approach19
What can city leaders do for climate change? Insights from the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group network19
Quality of government and regional trade: evidence from European Union regions18
Regions on course for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: the role of a strong indigenous T-KIBS sector18
Anchoring talent to regions: the role of universities in graduate retention through employment and entrepreneurship18
Development zone policy and high-quality economic growth: quasi-natural experimental evidence from China18
Network capital and urban development: an inter-urban capital flow network analysis18
Analysing vote-choice in a multinational state: national identity and territorial differentiation in the 2016 Brexit vote17
Regional reindustrialization patterns and productivity growth in Europe17
The economic complexity of US metropolitan areas17
Chasing after the wind? Green economy strategies, path creation and transitions in the offshore wind industry17
Urban structure in transition: evidence from Poland, 1983–201116
Costs, incentives, and institutions in bridging evolutionary economic geography and global production networks16
Industry legitimacy: bright and dark phases in regional industry path development16
Ethnic enclaves and self-employment among Middle Eastern immigrants in Sweden: ethnic capital or enclave size?16
Will reducing border barriers via the EU’s b-solutions lead towards greater European territorial integration?16
Renewing industrial regions? Advanced manufacturing and industrial policy in Britain16
Financialization under state entrepreneurialism in China16
Food system transformation for sustainable city-regions: exploring the potential of circular economies15
Recombinant invention in solar photovoltaic technology: can geographical proximity bridge technological distance?15
Economic modelling to evaluate Smart Specialisation: an analysis of research and innovation targets in Southern Europe15
The quality of government and administrative performance: explaining Cohesion Policy compliance, absorption and achievements across EU regions15
Trademarks as an indicator of regional innovation: evidence from Japanese prefectures15
Financialization of urban development in China: fantasy, fact or somewhere in between?15
Economic complexity and fertility: insights from a low fertility country15
Evaluating the implementation of Smart Specialisation policy15
A data-driven global innovation system approach and the rise of China’s artificial intelligence industry15
Spatial structure and subjective well-being in North-West Europe15
The brokerage role of Hong Kong in global financial networks: the case of mainland Chinese companies’ US listings15
How do occupational relatedness and complexity condition employment dynamics in periods of growth and recession?15
Do polycentric urban regions promote functional spillovers and economic performance? Evidence from China15
A dialogue on uneven development: a distinctly regional problem15
The vulnerability of European regional labour markets to job automation: the role of agglomeration externalities15
Industry 4.0 technological trajectories and traditional manufacturing regions: the role of knowledge workers15
The evolution of transport networks and the regional water environment: the case of Chinese high-speed rail14
Synergy and policy-making in German innovation systems: Smart Specialisation Strategies at national, regional, local levels?14
Cultural capital and income inequality across Italian regions14
Disruptive innovation and spatial inequality14
Intercity innovation collaboration and the role of high-speed rail connections: evidence from Chinese co-patent data14
Human agency, network dynamics and regional development: the behavioural principles of new path creation14
Digitalization in sparsely populated areas: between place-based practices and the smart region agenda14
Exploring external urban relational processes: inter-city financial flows complementing global city-regions14
The brokerage roles of city-regions in global corporate networks14
Environmental and socio-economic policies in oil and gas regions: triple bottom line approach14
Measuring regional quality of government: the public spending quality index based on government contracting data14
Rescaling urban development policy in the EU: the impact of integrated place-based approaches in Cohesion Policy14
Regional opportunity spaces – observations from Nordic regions13
Entrepreneurship in rural regions: the role of industry experience and home advantage for newly founded firms13
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions13
Old industrial spaces challenged by platformized value-capture 4.013
COVID-19 as a systemic shock: curb or catalyst for proactive policies towards territorial cohesion?13
Business-promoted city-regionalism? New Industrial City projects by China Fortune Land Development13
Translating Smart Specialisation and entrepreneurial discovery into a process-oriented policy13
Successful economic diversification in less developed regions: long-term trends in turbulent times13
Shaping the directionality of sustainability transitions: the diverging development patterns of solar photovoltaics in two Chinese provinces13
Economic exposure to regional value chain disruptions: evidence from Wuhan’s lockdown in China12
More-than-human city-region foresight: multispecies entanglements in regional governance and planning12
Provenance representations in craft beer12
Breaking with the spatial-cycle model: the shift towards ‘syncurbanization’ in polycentric urban regions12
What drives total factor productivity growth? An examination of spillover effects12
Promoting cross-border investing by business angels in the European Union12
Defining ‘centres’ in analyses of polycentric urban regions: the case of the Yangtze River Delta12
A blessing or curse: the spillover effects of city–county consolidation on local economies12
Research versus development: global cities and the location of MNCs’ cross-border R&D investments12
Urban growth, from manufacturing to consumption and financialization: the case of China’s contemporary urban development12
Distance (still) hampers diffusion of innovations12
Forms of place leadership in local productive systems: from endogenous rerouting to deliberate resistance to change12
Greening through digitalisation? Evidence from cities in China12
Place-based industrial and regional strategy – levelling the playing field12
The role of system-building agency in regional path creation: insights from the emergence of artificial intelligence in Montreal11
Strategic coupling in global production networks through international cooperation zones: the Thai–Chinese Rayong Industrial Zone11
UK analysts’ and policy-makers’ perspectives on Brexit: challenges, priorities and opportunities for subnational areas11
Re-imagining the future: city-region foresight and visioning in an era of fragmented governance11
Soft information and the geography of SME bank lending11
Social innovation for regional energy transition? An agency perspective on transformative change in non-core regions11
The spatial features of recent crises in a developing country: analysing regional economic resilience for the Brazilian case11
Trademarks, patents and the appropriation strategies of incumbents: the scope of new firm formation in European regions11
Industrial resilience, regional diversification and related variety during times of crisis in the US urban–rural context11
Organized crime and waste management costs11
The influence of regional strategic policy on municipal climate adaptation planning10
Output, investment and productivity: the Italian North–South regional divide from a Kaldor–Verdoorn approach10
Regional informal institutions, local governance and gendered entrepreneurship10
Asset modification for regional industrial restructuring: digitalization of the culture and experience industry and the healthcare sector10
System-level agency and its many shades: path development in a multidimensional innovation system10
The making and consolidation of the first national trademark system: the diffusion of trademarks across Spanish regions, 1850–192010
Shocks, resilience and regional industry policy: Brexit and the automotive sector in two Midlands regions10
Urban labour market resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: what is the promise of teleworking?10
Modelling and projecting digital trends in European regions: an econometric framework10
Places are not like people: the perils of anthropomorphism within entrepreneurial ecosystems research10
Smart Specialisation Strategy in practice: have regions changed the allocation of Structural Funds?10
Regions beyond Industry 4.010
The non-linear effect of technological diversification on regional productivity: implications for growth and Smart Specialisation Strategies9
Where do capabilities reside? Analysis of related technological diversification in multi-locational firms9
Tourism and local growth in Italy9
‘Making blockchain real’: regulatory discourses of blockchains as a smart, civic service9
COVID-19 lending support and regional levelling up: evidence from UK loan guarantee schemes9
Mimetic isomorphism, offshore outsourcing and backshoring decisions among micro and small enterprises9
Proposing a regional gender equality index (R-GEI) with an application to Italy9
Brewing at the time of COVID: the impact of the pandemic crisis on UK craft breweries and its implications for the sector and local economies9
Creating ‘resilience imaginaries’ for city-regional planning9
Putting missions in their place: micro-missions and the role of universities in delivering challenge-led innovation9
The spatial footprint of COVID-19 and local policy answers9
Innovative mergers and acquisitions and the broker regions of European integration9
Growing shrinking cities9
Migration and employment after an economic shock: regional characteristics and migration patterns9
Governance of Industry 4.0 policies: making knowledge services accessible for SMEs9
Powering the local review engine at Yelp and Google: intensive and extensive approaches to crowdsourcing spatial data9
Exploitation as innovation: research ethics and the governance of experimentation in the urban living lab9
Digital divide across the European Union and labour market resilience9
The city never sleeps: but when will investment banks wake up to the climate crisis?9
Global connectedness, local embeddedness and creative economies in European cities9
Polycentric spatial structure and its economic performance: evidence from meta-analysis9
Regional prices and real incomes in the UK9
The sustainable well-being of urban and rural areas9
Human capital dynamics: the geographical mobility of high-school graduates towards university in Italy9
The attractiveness of university and corporate anchor tenants in the conception of a new cluster8
Regional retail landscapes emerging from spatial network analysis8
Unlocking public procurement as a tool for place-based industrial strategy8
The promises and pitfalls of operationalizing inclusive growth8
Place-based policy in southern Italy: evidence from a dose–response approach8
History matters: the effects of Chinese ports from 170 years ago on entrepreneurship today8
State structures and the limits of agency: governing the transformation from coal in Australia8
Figuring it out: configurations of high-performing entrepreneurial ecosystems in Europe8
What draws investment to special economic zones? Lessons from developing countries8
Empowerment via delegation? The administrative capacity-building potential of Cohesion Policy urban development strategies8
Rethinking asset modification in regional industrial path development: toward a conceptual framework8
Two logics of regionalism: the development of a regional imaginary in the Toronto–Waterloo Innovation Corridor8
Linking place brands and regional innovation: sustainable business strategies leveraging heritage8
Assessing the impact of special economic zones on regional growth through a comparison among EU countries8
How does asymmetric decentralization affect local fiscal performance?8
Smart Specialisation and learning regions as a competitive strategy for less developed regions8
The local dimension of legitimation: an empirical analysis of firms’ entry in the Italian craft beer market8
Cohesion Policy, tourism and culture in Italy: a regional policy evaluation8
Studying human agency in regional development8
An empirical approach to cross-border spatial planning initiatives in Europe8
Multinationals’ recruiting in industrial districts8
Social capital and regional innovation: evidence from private firms in the US8
Mechanisms of metagovernance as structural challenges to levelling up in England7
A data-based approach to identifying regional typologies and exemplars across the urban–rural gradient in Europe using affinity propagation7
Renewable energy drivers in France: a spatial econometric perspective7
Local knowledge spillovers and the effects of related and unrelated variety on the novelty of innovation7
Rezoning at the threshold of two systems: regionalised party–statecraft in China’s Greater Bay Area7
Firms’ eco-innovation and Industry 4.0 technologies in urban and rural areas7
Development zones and firms’ performance: the impact of development zones on firms’ performance for a Chinese industrial cluster7
Regions, emotions and left-behindness: a phase model for understanding the emergence of regional embitterment7
From forecasts to scenarios in strategic city-regional land-use and transportation planning7
Why territory matters for implementing active subsidiarity in EU regional policy7
The dark side of innovation in financial centres: legal designs and territorialities of law7
Co-producing city-regional intelligence: strategies of intermediation, tactics of unsettling7
Regional growth and absorption speed of EU funds: when time isn’t money7
Covid-19 disruption, resilience and industrial policy: the automotive sector in the West Midlands7
Towards a regional approach for skills policy7
The geographical dimension of productivity in Great Britain, 2011–18: the sources of the London productivity advantage7
Local agency and development trajectories in a rural region7
Evidence-informed decision-making in Smart Specialisation Strategies: a patent-based approach for discovering regional technological capabilities7
Lock-in, paradox and regional renewal7
The trade-offs of brokerage in inter-city innovation networks7
Regional governance in second-tier city-regions in Sweden: a multi-scalar approach to institutional change7
Does Cohesion Policy help to combat intra-country regional disparities? A perspective on Central European countries7
The impact of metropolitan technology on the non-metropolitan labour market: evidence from US patents7
Internal migration and house prices in Australia7
The impact of the new Northern Ireland protocol: can Northern Ireland enjoy the best of both worlds?7
University graduates in metropolitan and peripheral areas: mobility, occupational choice and outcomes7
Asymmetry in the distribution of benefits of cross-border regional innovation systems: the case of the Hong Kong–Shenzhen innovation system7
The legacy of literacy: evidence from Italian regions6
Dynamics of regional diversification: a new approach using trademark data6
Creating planning visions for fragmented post-socialist city-regions6
Machine learning and the identification of Smart Specialisation thematic networks in Arctic Scandinavia6
The electoral bias: the political economy of subnational transfers in Latin America6
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge6
From brawn to brains: manufacturing–KIBS interdependency6
Proximity effects and labour specialization transitions in Mexico: a spatial Markov chain analysis6
Place leadership: developing a model to guide regional partnerships6
The role of Cohesion Policy for sustaining the resilience of European regional labour markets during different crises6
Smart specialization: a spontaneous four-step process in the mixed Arab–Jewish region of Haifa and Nazareth6
Geographical proximity, foreign presence and domestic firm innovation: the micro-level evidence6
University graduates’ early career decisions and interregional mobility: self-employment versus salaried job6
Negative human capital externalities in well-being: evidence from Chinese cities6
Small business and poverty: evidence from post-Soviet cities6
Contribution to the theory of territorial development: a territorial innovations approach6
Resilience and vulnerability of regional labour markets: principal component analysis of labour market efficiency in the EU6
Hope and path development in ‘left-behind’ places – a Southern perspective6
Too much of a good thing? Network brokerage within and between regions and innovation performance6
Engaging for the love of place? The role of place attachment in academics’ regional engagement efforts6
The regional geography of social mobility in Mexico6
The financialization of real estate in Japan: the formation of a core–periphery structure6
Which regional conditions facilitate university spinouts retention and attraction?6
Documenting the ‘soft spaces’ of London planning: Opportunity Areas as institutional fix in a growth-oriented city6
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