Regional Studies

Article	Citations
Regions in a time of pandemic	112
Complementary interregional linkages and Smart Specialisation: an empirical study on European regions	86
Towards an entrepreneurial ecosystem typology for regional economic development: the role of creative class and entrepreneurship	83
Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks	67
Does lockdown work? A spatial analysis of the spread and concentration of Covid-19 in Italy	63
Integrated, adaptive and participatory spatial planning: trends across Europe	60
Change agency and reproductive agency in the course of industrial path evolution	54
Diversifying in green technologies in European regions: does political support matter?	48
Mapping the potentials of regions in Europe to contribute to new knowledge production in Industry 4.0 technologies	47
‘Left behind places’: a geographical etymology	39
Digital economy in the UK: regional productivity effects of early adoption	38
Geographical Indications and local development: the strength of territorial embeddedness	38
Regional innovation systems: what can we learn from 25 years of scientific achievements?	37
Regional economic resilience in China: measurement and determinants	37
Assembling mega-urban projects through state-guided governance innovation: the development of Lingang in Shanghai	36
Contextualizing agency in new path development: how system selectivity shapes regional reconfiguration capacity	35
The impact of regional inequality on economic growth: a spatial econometric approach	33
Smart Specialisation on the move: reflections on six years of implementation and prospects for the future	31
The foundational economy and regional development	31
Do EU regions benefit from Smart Specialisation principles?	31
From ‘entrepreneurial’ to ‘engaged’ universities: social innovation for regional development in the Global South	31
City-regional imaginaries and politics of rescaling	30
Changing roles of the state in the financialization of urban development throughchengtouin China	30
The geography of Industry 4.0 technologies across European regions	30
Regional planning is dead: long live planning regional futures	30

Polycentric urban regions: conceptualization, identification and implications	29
Pathways of regional transformation and Industry 4.0	28
‘Buzz-and-pipeline’ dynamics in Chinese science: the impact of interurban collaboration linkages on cities’ innovation capacity	28
Legitimation dynamics in industrial path development: new-to-the-world versus new-to-the-region industries	27
Regions in Covid-19 recovery	27
Legitimation, institutions and regional path creation: a cross-national study of offshore wind	27
The new normative: synergistic scenario planning for carbon-neutral cities and regions	26
Place-based industrial strategy and economic trajectory: advancing agency-based approaches	26
Cluster presence and economic performance: a new look based on European data	24
Spillovers across industries and regions in China’s regional economic diversification	24
Institutional quality and innovation performance: evidence from Italy	24
Emerging industries: institutions, legitimacy and system-level agency	23
Future-proof cities through governance experiments? Insights from the Resilient Melbourne Strategy (RMS)	23
(Digital) neo-colonialism in the smart city	23
Positioning regional planning across Europe	22
Cooperative banks and local economic growth	22
Spatial structure and productivity in European regions	22
The dark side of the geography of innovation: relatedness, complexity and regional inequality in Europe	21
Making regional citizens? The political drivers and effects of subnational immigrant integration policies in Europe and North America	21
Do airport activities affect regional economies? Regional analysis of New Zealand’s airport system	21
Does Cohesion Policy reduce EU discontent and Euroscepticism?	20
The rise of urban tech: how innovations for cities come from cities	20
Relatedness, complexity and local growth	20
Understanding metropolitan growth in German polycentric urban regions	20
Polycentric urban structure and innovation: evidence from a panel of Chinese cities	20
Industry 4.0 in industrial districts: regional innovation policy for the Toy Valley district in Spain	19
Regions and trademarks: research opportunities and policy insights from leveraging trademarks in regional innovation studies	19
Towards an integrated framework of agency in regional development: the case of old industrial regions	19
Regional planning: an arena of interests, institutions and relations	19
Going beyond the line of sight: institutional entrepreneurship and system agency in regional path creation	19
Smart cities and urban inequality	19
Can the Internet narrow regional economic disparities?	18
Reconsidering regional structural conditions for industrial renewal	18
Regional resentment in the Netherlands: A rural or peripheral phenomenon?	18
Retheorizing industrial–institutional coevolution: a multidimensional perspective	18
The Covid-19 shock in European regions	18
New path creation in the artificial intelligence industry: regional preconditions, new actors and their collective actions, and policies	17
Whither regional planning?	17
Rebalancing UK regional and industrial policy post-Brexit and post-Covid-19: lessons learned and priorities for the future	17
The competitive advantage of regions: economic geography and strategic management intersections	17
4.0 Technologies and the rise of new islands of innovation in European regions	17
Network governance and coordination of a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem	16
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?	16
Quality of government and regional trade: evidence from European Union regions	16
The role of technology and relatedness in regional trademark activity	16
Is transparency a way to improve efficiency? An assessment of Spanish municipalities	16
Development zone policy and high-quality economic growth: quasi-natural experimental evidence from China	16
Analysing vote-choice in a multinational state: national identity and territorial differentiation in the 2016 Brexit vote	16
Digital urban production: how does Industry 4.0 reconfigure productive value creation in urban contexts?	16
Rethinking the governance and planning of a new generation of greenbelts	16

Towards a problem-oriented regional industrial policy: possibilities for public intervention in framing, valuation and market formation	16
Smart Specialisation strategies on the periphery: a data-triangulation approach to governance issues and practices	16
Costs, incentives, and institutions in bridging evolutionary economic geography and global production networks	15
Level best? The levelling up agenda and UK regional inequality	15
Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis	15
Network capital and urban development: an inter-urban capital flow network analysis	15
Transcending land–sea dichotomies through strategic spatial planning	15
Entrepreneurship education and firm creation	15
Immigrant integration policies when regions decide ‘who comes in’: the case of Canadian provinces	15
Do polycentric urban regions promote functional spillovers and economic performance? Evidence from China	15
Varieties of periphery and local agency in regional development	15
Spatial structure and subjective well-being in North-West Europe	14
Industry 4.0 technological trajectories and traditional manufacturing regions: the role of knowledge workers	14
The future of Northern Ireland: border anxieties and support for Irish reunification under varieties of UKexit	14
Inter- and intra-city networks: how networks are shaping China’s film industry	14
A multi-scalar view of urban financialization: urban development and local government bonds in China	14
Industry legitimacy: bright and dark phases in regional industry path development	14
Regional industrial policy in times of big disruption: building dynamic capabilities in regions	14
The economic complexity of US metropolitan areas	14
Economic modelling to evaluate Smart Specialisation: an analysis of research and innovation targets in Southern Europe	14
The role of geographical and temporary proximity in MNEs’ location and intra-firm co-location choices	13
Institutional relatedness and the emergence of renewable energy cooperatives in German districts	13
The vulnerability of European regional labour markets to job automation: the role of agglomeration externalities	13
Smart cities and sustainable development	13
Image and reality: ‘digital twins’ in smart factory automotive process innovation – critical issues	13
Business-promoted city-regionalism? New Industrial City projects by China Fortune Land Development	13
How do occupational relatedness and complexity condition employment dynamics in periods of growth and recession?	13
Networked dynamics of knowledge integration in strategic spatial planning processes: a social network approach	13
Regions on course for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: the role of a strong indigenous T-KIBS sector	13
Peri-urban transformation in the Global South: a comparative socio-spatial analytics approach	12
Translating Smart Specialisation and entrepreneurial discovery into a process-oriented policy	12
Successful economic diversification in less developed regions: long-term trends in turbulent times	12
Knowledge flows and technologies in renewable energies at the regional level in Europe	12
Chasing after the wind? Green economy strategies, path creation and transitions in the offshore wind industry	12
The brokerage roles of city-regions in global corporate networks	12
Recombinant invention in solar photovoltaic technology: can geographical proximity bridge technological distance?	12
Old industrial spaces challenged by platformized value-capture 4.0	12
Will reducing border barriers via the EU’s b-solutions lead towards greater European territorial integration?	12
Rescaling urban development policy in the EU: the impact of integrated place-based approaches in Cohesion Policy	12
Exploring external urban relational processes: inter-city financial flows complementing global city-regions	12
The geography of knowledge revisited: geographies of KIBS use by a new rural industry	12
Trademarks as an indicator of regional innovation: evidence from Japanese prefectures	12
Anchoring talent to regions: the role of universities in graduate retention through employment and entrepreneurship	12
Economic complexity and fertility: insights from a low fertility country	12
Provenance representations in craft beer	12
A prehistory of the polycentric urban region: excavating Dutch applied geography, 1930–60	12
The quality of government and administrative performance: explaining Cohesion Policy compliance, absorption and achievements across EU regions	12
The evolution of transport networks and the regional water environment: the case of Chinese high-speed rail	12
The curse of natural resources: an empirical analysis of European regions	11
What drives migration moves to urban areas in Spain? Evidence from the Great Recession	11
Renewing industrial regions? Advanced manufacturing and industrial policy in Britain	11
Lost in plain sight: revealing central flow process in Christaller’s original central place systems	11
Digital agendas, regional policy and institutional quality: assessing the Italian broadband plan	11
Financialization of urban development in China: fantasy, fact or somewhere in between?	11
Financialization under state entrepreneurialism in China	11
A blessing or curse: the spillover effects of city–county consolidation on local economies	11
Air connectivity and spatial effects: regional differences in Europe	11
What can city leaders do for climate change? Insights from the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group network	11
Finding the future in policy discourse: an analysis of city resilience plans	11
Cultural capital and income inequality across Italian regions	11
Urban structure in transition: evidence from Poland, 1983–2011	11
Ethnic enclaves and self-employment among Middle Eastern immigrants in Sweden: ethnic capital or enclave size?	11
Multidimensional deprivation in heterogeneous rural areas: Spain after the economic crisis	11
Synergy and policy-making in German innovation systems: Smart Specialisation Strategies at national, regional, local levels?	10
Human agency, network dynamics and regional development: the behavioural principles of new path creation	10
Evaluating the implementation of Smart Specialisation policy	10
Regional disparities and industrial structure: territorial capital and productivity in Italian firms	10
Agglomeration externalities of fast-growth firms	10
Entrepreneurs and cluster evolution: the transformation of Toronto’s ICT cluster	10
Forms of place leadership in local productive systems: from endogenous rerouting to deliberate resistance to change	10
Asset modification for regional industrial restructuring: digitalization of the culture and experience industry and the healthcare sector	10
The role of system-building agency in regional path creation: insights from the emergence of artificial intelligence in Montreal	10
Strategic coupling in global production networks through international cooperation zones: the Thai–Chinese Rayong Industrial Zone	10
Digitalization in sparsely populated areas: between place-based practices and the smart region agenda	10
UK analysts’ and policy-makers’ perspectives on Brexit: challenges, priorities and opportunities for subnational areas	10
Shaping the directionality of sustainability transitions: the diverging development patterns of solar photovoltaics in two Chinese provinces	9
Regional prices and real incomes in the UK	9
Regional opportunity spaces – observations from Nordic regions	9
Industrial resilience, regional diversification and related variety during times of crisis in the US urban–rural context	9
The creative renewal of a craft cluster: the role of materiality and mobility in cluster evolution	9

A dialogue on uneven development: a distinctly regional problem	9
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions	9
The spatial features of recent crises in a developing country: analysing regional economic resilience for the Brazilian case	9
Trademarks, patents and the appropriation strategies of incumbents: the scope of new firm formation in European regions	9
Territorial patterns of R&D+I grants supporting Smart Specialisation projects funded from the ESIF in Poland	9
Entrepreneurship in rural regions: the role of industry experience and home advantage for newly founded firms	9
Spatial planning, nationalism and territorial politics in Europe	9
Regional reindustrialization patterns and productivity growth in Europe	9
Breaking with the spatial-cycle model: the shift towards ‘syncurbanization’ in polycentric urban regions	9
What drives total factor productivity growth? An examination of spillover effects	9
Migration and employment after an economic shock: regional characteristics and migration patterns	9
More-than-human city-region foresight: multispecies entanglements in regional governance and planning	9
A data-driven global innovation system approach and the rise of China’s artificial intelligence industry	9
Regional informal institutions, local governance and gendered entrepreneurship	9
Smart Specialisation Strategy in practice: have regions changed the allocation of Structural Funds?	9
The sustainable well-being of urban and rural areas	8
Output, investment and productivity: the Italian North–South regional divide from a Kaldor–Verdoorn approach	8
Patterns of policy learning in the RIS3 processes of less developed regions	8
Urban labour market resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: what is the promise of teleworking?	8
Does subnational tax autonomy promote regional convergence? Evidence from OECD countries, 1995–2011	8
Environmental and socio-economic policies in oil and gas regions: triple bottom line approach	8
Promoting cross-border investing by business angels in the European Union	8
The links between regional house prices and share prices in the UK	8
Exploitation as innovation: research ethics and the governance of experimentation in the urban living lab	8
Regions beyond Industry 4.0	8
Negotiating Brexit: power dynamics in British intergovernmental relations	8
Global connectedness, local embeddedness and creative economies in European cities	8
Polycentric spatial structure and its economic performance: evidence from meta-analysis	8
Measuring regional quality of government: the public spending quality index based on government contracting data	8
Defining ‘centres’ in analyses of polycentric urban regions: the case of the Yangtze River Delta	8
Towards a ‘harmonious society’? Multidimensional development and the convergence of Chinese provinces	8
A model for NTBF creation in less developed regions based on the Smart Specialisation concept: the case of regions in Iran	8
Rethinking asset modification in regional industrial path development: toward a conceptual framework	8
Urban growth, from manufacturing to consumption and financialization: the case of China’s contemporary urban development	8
Food system transformation for sustainable city-regions: exploring the potential of circular economies	8