Regional Studies

Article	Citations
Towards an entrepreneurial ecosystem typology for regional economic development: the role of creative class and entrepreneurship	110
Complementary interregional linkages and Smart Specialisation: an empirical study on European regions	107
Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks	76
Does lockdown work? A spatial analysis of the spread and concentration of Covid-19 in Italy	69
Change agency and reproductive agency in the course of industrial path evolution	62
Regional economic resilience in China: measurement and determinants	61
Mapping the potentials of regions in Europe to contribute to new knowledge production in Industry 4.0 technologies	60
‘Left behind places’: a geographical etymology	57
Digital economy in the UK: regional productivity effects of early adoption	52
Geographical Indications and local development: the strength of territorial embeddedness	51
The dark side of the geography of innovation: relatedness, complexity and regional inequality in Europe	45
Do EU regions benefit from Smart Specialisation principles?	41
Contextualizing agency in new path development: how system selectivity shapes regional reconfiguration capacity	41
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 approach	39
Changing roles of the state in the financialization of urban development throughchengtouin China	38
Regions in Covid-19 recovery	38
The geography of Industry 4.0 technologies across European regions	37
Polycentric urban regions: conceptualization, identification and implications	37
The foundational economy and regional development	36
‘Buzz-and-pipeline’ dynamics in Chinese science: the impact of interurban collaboration linkages on cities’ innovation capacity	35
Spillovers across industries and regions in China’s regional economic diversification	33
Pathways of regional transformation and Industry 4.0	33
Legitimation, institutions and regional path creation: a cross-national study of offshore wind	32
Place-based industrial strategy and economic trajectory: advancing agency-based approaches	32

Smart cities and sustainable development	30
(Digital) neo-colonialism in the smart city	30
Spatial structure and productivity in European regions	29
Legitimation dynamics in industrial path development: new-to-the-world versus new-to-the-region industries	28
Varieties of periphery and local agency in regional development	28
Smart cities and urban inequality	27
Emerging industries: institutions, legitimacy and system-level agency	27
Does Cohesion Policy reduce EU discontent and Euroscepticism?	26
Regional resentment in the Netherlands: A rural or peripheral phenomenon?	26
Regions and trademarks: research opportunities and policy insights from leveraging trademarks in regional innovation studies	25
Towards a problem-oriented regional industrial policy: possibilities for public intervention in framing, valuation and market formation	25
Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis	25
Polycentric urban structure and innovation: evidence from a panel of Chinese cities	25
Rebalancing UK regional and industrial policy post-Brexit and post-Covid-19: lessons learned and priorities for the future	25
Can the Internet narrow regional economic disparities?	24
Regional planning: an arena of interests, institutions and relations	24
Going beyond the line of sight: institutional entrepreneurship and system agency in regional path creation	24
The rise of urban tech: how innovations for cities come from cities	24
Reconsidering regional structural conditions for industrial renewal	24
Network governance and coordination of a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem	24
Towards an integrated framework of agency in regional development: the case of old industrial regions	23
The Covid-19 shock in European regions	23
Do airport activities affect regional economies? Regional analysis of New Zealand’s airport system	23
A multi-scalar view of urban financialization: urban development and local government bonds in China	23
Retheorizing industrial–institutional coevolution: a multidimensional perspective	22
4.0 Technologies and the rise of new islands of innovation in European regions	22
Industry 4.0 in industrial districts: regional innovation policy for the Toy Valley district in Spain	22
Institutional relatedness and the emergence of renewable energy cooperatives in German districts	21
Entrepreneurship education and firm creation	21
Level best? The levelling up agenda and UK regional inequality	21
New path creation in the artificial intelligence industry: regional preconditions, new actors and their collective actions, and policies	20
Whither regional planning?	20
Digital urban production: how does Industry 4.0 reconfigure productive value creation in urban contexts?	20
Regional industrial policy in times of big disruption: building dynamic capabilities in regions	19
Peri-urban transformation in the Global South: a comparative socio-spatial analytics approach	19
What can city leaders do for climate change? Insights from the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group network	19
Image and reality: ‘digital twins’ in smart factory automotive process innovation – critical issues	19
Anchoring talent to regions: the role of universities in graduate retention through employment and entrepreneurship	18
Development zone policy and high-quality economic growth: quasi-natural experimental evidence from China	18
Network capital and urban development: an inter-urban capital flow network analysis	18
Quality of government and regional trade: evidence from European Union regions	18
Regions on course for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: the role of a strong indigenous T-KIBS sector	18
Regional reindustrialization patterns and productivity growth in Europe	17
The economic complexity of US metropolitan areas	17
Chasing after the wind? Green economy strategies, path creation and transitions in the offshore wind industry	17
Analysing vote-choice in a multinational state: national identity and territorial differentiation in the 2016 Brexit vote	17
Renewing industrial regions? Advanced manufacturing and industrial policy in Britain	16
Ethnic enclaves and self-employment among Middle Eastern immigrants in Sweden: ethnic capital or enclave size?	16
Financialization under state entrepreneurialism in China	16
Digitalization in sparsely populated areas: between place-based practices and the smart region agenda	16

Industry legitimacy: bright and dark phases in regional industry path development	16
Costs, incentives, and institutions in bridging evolutionary economic geography and global production networks	16
Economic modelling to evaluate Smart Specialisation: an analysis of research and innovation targets in Southern Europe	16
Urban structure in transition: evidence from Poland, 1983–2011	16
Will reducing border barriers via the EU’s b-solutions lead towards greater European territorial integration?	16
Financialization of urban development in China: fantasy, fact or somewhere in between?	15
Synergy and policy-making in German innovation systems: Smart Specialisation Strategies at national, regional, local levels?	15
Do polycentric urban regions promote functional spillovers and economic performance? Evidence from China	15
Spatial structure and subjective well-being in North-West Europe	15
The brokerage role of Hong Kong in global financial networks: the case of mainland Chinese companies’ US listings	15
How do occupational relatedness and complexity condition employment dynamics in periods of growth and recession?	15
Recombinant invention in solar photovoltaic technology: can geographical proximity bridge technological distance?	15
A data-driven global innovation system approach and the rise of China’s artificial intelligence industry	15
A dialogue on uneven development: a distinctly regional problem	15
The evolution of transport networks and the regional water environment: the case of Chinese high-speed rail	15
The vulnerability of European regional labour markets to job automation: the role of agglomeration externalities	15
Food system transformation for sustainable city-regions: exploring the potential of circular economies	15
Economic complexity and fertility: insights from a low fertility country	15
Evaluating the implementation of Smart Specialisation policy	15
The quality of government and administrative performance: explaining Cohesion Policy compliance, absorption and achievements across EU regions	15
Industry 4.0 technological trajectories and traditional manufacturing regions: the role of knowledge workers	15
Trademarks as an indicator of regional innovation: evidence from Japanese prefectures	15
Measuring regional quality of government: the public spending quality index based on government contracting data	14
Rescaling urban development policy in the EU: the impact of integrated place-based approaches in Cohesion Policy	14
Shaping the directionality of sustainability transitions: the diverging development patterns of solar photovoltaics in two Chinese provinces	14
Human agency, network dynamics and regional development: the behavioural principles of new path creation	14
Disruptive innovation and spatial inequality	14
The brokerage roles of city-regions in global corporate networks	14
Environmental and socio-economic policies in oil and gas regions: triple bottom line approach	14
Cultural capital and income inequality across Italian regions	14
Exploring external urban relational processes: inter-city financial flows complementing global city-regions	14
Intercity innovation collaboration and the role of high-speed rail connections: evidence from Chinese co-patent data	14
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions	13
Old industrial spaces challenged by platformized value-capture 4.0	13
A blessing or curse: the spillover effects of city–county consolidation on local economies	13
Business-promoted city-regionalism? New Industrial City projects by China Fortune Land Development	13
Regional opportunity spaces – observations from Nordic regions	13
Successful economic diversification in less developed regions: long-term trends in turbulent times	13
COVID-19 as a systemic shock: curb or catalyst for proactive policies towards territorial cohesion?	13
Translating Smart Specialisation and entrepreneurial discovery into a process-oriented policy	13
Entrepreneurship in rural regions: the role of industry experience and home advantage for newly founded firms	13
Economic exposure to regional value chain disruptions: evidence from Wuhan’s lockdown in China	12
More-than-human city-region foresight: multispecies entanglements in regional governance and planning	12
Provenance representations in craft beer	12
Breaking with the spatial-cycle model: the shift towards ‘syncurbanization’ in polycentric urban regions	12
Urban growth, from manufacturing to consumption and financialization: the case of China’s contemporary urban development	12
Promoting cross-border investing by business angels in the European Union	12
Defining ‘centres’ in analyses of polycentric urban regions: the case of the Yangtze River Delta	12
Place-based industrial and regional strategy – levelling the playing field	12
Research versus development: global cities and the location of MNCs’ cross-border R&D investments	12
Distance (still) hampers diffusion of innovations	12
Forms of place leadership in local productive systems: from endogenous rerouting to deliberate resistance to change	12
Greening through digitalisation? Evidence from cities in China	12
What drives total factor productivity growth? An examination of spillover effects	12
Re-imagining the future: city-region foresight and visioning in an era of fragmented governance	11
Soft information and the geography of SME bank lending	11
Places are not like people: the perils of anthropomorphism within entrepreneurial ecosystems research	11
Social innovation for regional energy transition? An agency perspective on transformative change in non-core regions	11
Trademarks, patents and the appropriation strategies of incumbents: the scope of new firm formation in European regions	11
Industrial resilience, regional diversification and related variety during times of crisis in the US urban–rural context	11
Organized crime and waste management costs	11
The spatial features of recent crises in a developing country: analysing regional economic resilience for the Brazilian case	11
The role of system-building agency in regional path creation: insights from the emergence of artificial intelligence in Montreal	11
Strategic coupling in global production networks through international cooperation zones: the Thai–Chinese Rayong Industrial Zone	11
Putting missions in their place: micro-missions and the role of universities in delivering challenge-led innovation	11
UK analysts’ and policy-makers’ perspectives on Brexit: challenges, priorities and opportunities for subnational areas	11
The influence of regional strategic policy on municipal climate adaptation planning	10
Shocks, resilience and regional industry policy: Brexit and the automotive sector in two Midlands regions	10
Where do capabilities reside? Analysis of related technological diversification in multi-locational firms	10
Urban labour market resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: what is the promise of teleworking?	10
System-level agency and its many shades: path development in a multidimensional innovation system	10
The making and consolidation of the first national trademark system: the diffusion of trademarks across Spanish regions, 1850–1920	10
Output, investment and productivity: the Italian North–South regional divide from a Kaldor–Verdoorn approach	10
Smart Specialisation Strategy in practice: have regions changed the allocation of Structural Funds?	10
Asset modification for regional industrial restructuring: digitalization of the culture and experience industry and the healthcare sector	10
Modelling and projecting digital trends in European regions: an econometric framework	10
The non-linear effect of technological diversification on regional productivity: implications for growth and Smart Specialisation Strategies	10
Regions beyond Industry 4.0	10
Regional informal institutions, local governance and gendered entrepreneurship	10
Polycentric spatial structure and its economic performance: evidence from meta-analysis	9

Smart Specialisation and learning regions as a competitive strategy for less developed regions	9
Mimetic isomorphism, offshore outsourcing and backshoring decisions among micro and small enterprises	9
Exploitation as innovation: research ethics and the governance of experimentation in the urban living lab	9
The city never sleeps: but when will investment banks wake up to the climate crisis?	9
Tourism and local growth in Italy	9
Global connectedness, local embeddedness and creative economies in European cities	9
Innovative mergers and acquisitions and the broker regions of European integration	9
COVID-19 lending support and regional levelling up: evidence from UK loan guarantee schemes	9
The sustainable well-being of urban and rural areas	9
Proposing a regional gender equality index (R-GEI) with an application to Italy	9
Human capital dynamics: the geographical mobility of high-school graduates towards university in Italy	9
Digital divide across the European Union and labour market resilience	9
The spatial footprint of COVID-19 and local policy answers	9
Growing shrinking cities	9
Regional prices and real incomes in the UK	9
Governance of Industry 4.0 policies: making knowledge services accessible for SMEs	9
Brewing at the time of COVID: the impact of the pandemic crisis on UK craft breweries and its implications for the sector and local economies	9
Powering the local review engine at Yelp and Google: intensive and extensive approaches to crowdsourcing spatial data	9
Creating ‘resilience imaginaries’ for city-regional planning	9
‘Making blockchain real’: regulatory discourses of blockchains as a smart, civic service	9
Linking place brands and regional innovation: sustainable business strategies leveraging heritage	8
Studying human agency in regional development	8
State structures and the limits of agency: governing the transformation from coal in Australia	8
The attractiveness of university and corporate anchor tenants in the conception of a new cluster	8
Figuring it out: configurations of high-performing entrepreneurial ecosystems in Europe	8
Empowerment via delegation? The administrative capacity-building potential of Cohesion Policy urban development strategies	8
Cohesion Policy, tourism and culture in Italy: a regional policy evaluation	8
Two logics of regionalism: the development of a regional imaginary in the Toronto–Waterloo Innovation Corridor	8
Place-based policy in southern Italy: evidence from a dose–response approach	8
Assessing the impact of special economic zones on regional growth through a comparison among EU countries	8
How does asymmetric decentralization affect local fiscal performance?	8
Regional retail landscapes emerging from spatial network analysis	8
The local dimension of legitimation: an empirical analysis of firms’ entry in the Italian craft beer market	8
The promises and pitfalls of operationalizing inclusive growth	8
An empirical approach to cross-border spatial planning initiatives in Europe	8
Multinationals’ recruiting in industrial districts	8
Social capital and regional innovation: evidence from private firms in the US	8
What draws investment to special economic zones? Lessons from developing countries	8
Unlocking public procurement as a tool for place-based industrial strategy	8
History matters: the effects of Chinese ports from 170 years ago on entrepreneurship today	8
Rethinking asset modification in regional industrial path development: toward a conceptual framework	8
Co-producing city-regional intelligence: strategies of intermediation, tactics of unsettling	7
Covid-19 disruption, resilience and industrial policy: the automotive sector in the West Midlands	7
Firms’ eco-innovation and Industry 4.0 technologies in urban and rural areas	7
The impact of the new Northern Ireland protocol: can Northern Ireland enjoy the best of both worlds?	7
From forecasts to scenarios in strategic city-regional land-use and transportation planning	7
University graduates in metropolitan and peripheral areas: mobility, occupational choice and outcomes	7
Lock-in, paradox and regional renewal	7
Mechanisms of metagovernance as structural challenges to levelling up in England	7
Renewable energy drivers in France: a spatial econometric perspective	7
Does Cohesion Policy help to combat intra-country regional disparities? A perspective on Central European countries	7
Regional governance in second-tier city-regions in Sweden: a multi-scalar approach to institutional change	7
Regional growth and absorption speed of EU funds: when time isn’t money	7
Development zones and firms’ performance: the impact of development zones on firms’ performance for a Chinese industrial cluster	7
Local agency and development trajectories in a rural region	7
Asymmetry in the distribution of benefits of cross-border regional innovation systems: the case of the Hong Kong–Shenzhen innovation system	7
Evidence-informed decision-making in Smart Specialisation Strategies: a patent-based approach for discovering regional technological capabilities	7
Why territory matters for implementing active subsidiarity in EU regional policy	7
The trade-offs of brokerage in inter-city innovation networks	7
Rezoning at the threshold of two systems: regionalised party–statecraft in China’s Greater Bay Area	7
The impact of metropolitan technology on the non-metropolitan labour market: evidence from US patents	7
Local knowledge spillovers and the effects of related and unrelated variety on the novelty of innovation	7
Internal migration and house prices in Australia	7
Towards a regional approach for skills policy	7
The geographical dimension of productivity in Great Britain, 2011–18: the sources of the London productivity advantage	7
Regions, emotions and left-behindness: a phase model for understanding the emergence of regional embitterment	7
A data-based approach to identifying regional typologies and exemplars across the urban–rural gradient in Europe using affinity propagation	7
The dark side of innovation in financial centres: legal designs and territorialities of law	7
Smart specialization: a spontaneous four-step process in the mixed Arab–Jewish region of Haifa and Nazareth	7
Too much of a good thing? Network brokerage within and between regions and innovation performance	6
The legacy of literacy: evidence from Italian regions	6
Geographical proximity, foreign presence and domestic firm innovation: the micro-level evidence	6
University graduates’ early career decisions and interregional mobility: self-employment versus salaried job	6
The regional geography of social mobility in Mexico	6
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge	6
Documenting the ‘soft spaces’ of London planning: Opportunity Areas as institutional fix in a growth-oriented city	6
Industrial policy, productivity and place: London as a ‘role model’ and High Speed 2 (HS2)	6
The role of Cohesion Policy for sustaining the resilience of European regional labour markets during different crises	6
Hope and path development in ‘left-behind’ places – a Southern perspective	6
Place leadership: developing a model to guide regional partnerships	6
Engaging for the love of place? The role of place attachment in academics’ regional engagement efforts	6
Which regional conditions facilitate university spinouts retention and attraction?	6
Negative human capital externalities in well-being: evidence from Chinese cities	6
The electoral bias: the political economy of subnational transfers in Latin America	6
From brawn to brains: manufacturing–KIBS interdependency	6
The impact of the 2014–2020 European Structural Funds on territorial cohesion	6
Does political decentralization affect income inequality? The role of governance quality	6
Creating planning visions for fragmented post-socialist city-regions	6
Resilience and vulnerability of regional labour markets: principal component analysis of labour market efficiency in the EU	6
Machine learning and the identification of Smart Specialisation thematic networks in Arctic Scandinavia	6
Small business and poverty: evidence from post-Soviet cities	6
The financialization of real estate in Japan: the formation of a core–periphery structure	6
Proximity effects and labour specialization transitions in Mexico: a spatial Markov chain analysis	6
Contribution to the theory of territorial development: a territorial innovations approach	6
Dynamics of regional diversification: a new approach using trademark data	6