Regional Studies

Article	Citations
Regions in a time of pandemic	115
Complementary interregional linkages and Smart Specialisation: an empirical study on European regions	96
Towards an entrepreneurial ecosystem typology for regional economic development: the role of creative class and entrepreneurship	94
Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks	72
Integrated, adaptive and participatory spatial planning: trends across Europe	71
Does lockdown work? A spatial analysis of the spread and concentration of Covid-19 in Italy	67
Change agency and reproductive agency in the course of industrial path evolution	57
Mapping the potentials of regions in Europe to contribute to new knowledge production in Industry 4.0 technologies	54
Regional economic resilience in China: measurement and determinants	52
Digital economy in the UK: regional productivity effects of early adoption	47
Geographical Indications and local development: the strength of territorial embeddedness	47
‘Left behind places’: a geographical etymology	46
Regional innovation systems: what can we learn from 25 years of scientific achievements?	39
Do EU regions benefit from Smart Specialisation principles?	38
Contextualizing agency in new path development: how system selectivity shapes regional reconfiguration capacity	37
The impact of regional inequality on economic growth: a spatial econometric approach	36
Polycentric urban regions: conceptualization, identification and implications	35
The geography of Industry 4.0 technologies across European regions	35
Changing roles of the state in the financialization of urban development throughchengtouin China	35
The foundational economy and regional development	34
Regions in Covid-19 recovery	34
Smart Specialisation on the move: reflections on six years of implementation and prospects for the future	32
The dark side of the geography of innovation: relatedness, complexity and regional inequality in Europe	32
Pathways of regional transformation and Industry 4.0	31
Legitimation, institutions and regional path creation: a cross-national study of offshore wind	30

Place-based industrial strategy and economic trajectory: advancing agency-based approaches	30
‘Buzz-and-pipeline’ dynamics in Chinese science: the impact of interurban collaboration linkages on cities’ innovation capacity	30
Spillovers across industries and regions in China’s regional economic diversification	29
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?	28
Legitimation dynamics in industrial path development: new-to-the-world versus new-to-the-region industries	28
The new normative: synergistic scenario planning for carbon-neutral cities and regions	28
Cluster presence and economic performance: a new look based on European data	28
(Digital) neo-colonialism in the smart city	27
Cooperative banks and local economic growth	26
Emerging industries: institutions, legitimacy and system-level agency	26
Positioning regional planning across Europe	26
Spatial structure and productivity in European regions	25
Does Cohesion Policy reduce EU discontent and Euroscepticism?	25
Regional resentment in the Netherlands: A rural or peripheral phenomenon?	24
Regions and trademarks: research opportunities and policy insights from leveraging trademarks in regional innovation studies	23
Rebalancing UK regional and industrial policy post-Brexit and post-Covid-19: lessons learned and priorities for the future	23
Understanding metropolitan growth in German polycentric urban regions	23
Polycentric urban structure and innovation: evidence from a panel of Chinese cities	23
Smart cities and urban inequality	23
Relatedness, complexity and local growth	22
The rise of urban tech: how innovations for cities come from cities	22
Towards an integrated framework of agency in regional development: the case of old industrial regions	22
Reconsidering regional structural conditions for industrial renewal	22
Making regional citizens? The political drivers and effects of subnational immigrant integration policies in Europe and North America	22
Do airport activities affect regional economies? Regional analysis of New Zealand’s airport system	22
Going beyond the line of sight: institutional entrepreneurship and system agency in regional path creation	22
Varieties of periphery and local agency in regional development	21
Regional planning: an arena of interests, institutions and relations	21
The Covid-19 shock in European regions	21
Smart cities and sustainable development	21
4.0 Technologies and the rise of new islands of innovation in European regions	21
Retheorizing industrial–institutional coevolution: a multidimensional perspective	20
Towards a problem-oriented regional industrial policy: possibilities for public intervention in framing, valuation and market formation	20
Can the Internet narrow regional economic disparities?	20
Industry 4.0 in industrial districts: regional innovation policy for the Toy Valley district in Spain	20
Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis	19
Digital urban production: how does Industry 4.0 reconfigure productive value creation in urban contexts?	19
Entrepreneurship education and firm creation	19
The role of technology and relatedness in regional trademark activity	19
Quality of government and regional trade: evidence from European Union regions	18
A multi-scalar view of urban financialization: urban development and local government bonds in China	18
New path creation in the artificial intelligence industry: regional preconditions, new actors and their collective actions, and policies	18
Whither regional planning?	18
Regions on course for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: the role of a strong indigenous T-KIBS sector	18
The economic complexity of US metropolitan areas	17
Institutional relatedness and the emergence of renewable energy cooperatives in German districts	17
Anchoring talent to regions: the role of universities in graduate retention through employment and entrepreneurship	17
Analysing vote-choice in a multinational state: national identity and territorial differentiation in the 2016 Brexit vote	17
Regional industrial policy in times of big disruption: building dynamic capabilities in regions	17
Immigrant integration policies when regions decide ‘who comes in’: the case of Canadian provinces	17

Smart Specialisation strategies on the periphery: a data-triangulation approach to governance issues and practices	17
Development zone policy and high-quality economic growth: quasi-natural experimental evidence from China	17
Network governance and coordination of a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem	16
What can city leaders do for climate change? Insights from the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group network	16
Costs, incentives, and institutions in bridging evolutionary economic geography and global production networks	16
Image and reality: ‘digital twins’ in smart factory automotive process innovation – critical issues	16
Level best? The levelling up agenda and UK regional inequality	16
Urban structure in transition: evidence from Poland, 1983–2011	16
Spatial structure and subjective well-being in North-West Europe	15
Do polycentric urban regions promote functional spillovers and economic performance? Evidence from China	15
Industry 4.0 technological trajectories and traditional manufacturing regions: the role of knowledge workers	15
Network capital and urban development: an inter-urban capital flow network analysis	15
Air connectivity and spatial effects: regional differences in Europe	15
Renewing industrial regions? Advanced manufacturing and industrial policy in Britain	15
Industry legitimacy: bright and dark phases in regional industry path development	15
Inter- and intra-city networks: how networks are shaping China’s film industry	15
How do occupational relatedness and complexity condition employment dynamics in periods of growth and recession?	15
Ethnic enclaves and self-employment among Middle Eastern immigrants in Sweden: ethnic capital or enclave size?	15
Economic modelling to evaluate Smart Specialisation: an analysis of research and innovation targets in Southern Europe	15
The evolution of transport networks and the regional water environment: the case of Chinese high-speed rail	14
Trademarks as an indicator of regional innovation: evidence from Japanese prefectures	14
Recombinant invention in solar photovoltaic technology: can geographical proximity bridge technological distance?	14
Will reducing border barriers via the EU’s b-solutions lead towards greater European territorial integration?	14
The quality of government and administrative performance: explaining Cohesion Policy compliance, absorption and achievements across EU regions	14
Business-promoted city-regionalism? New Industrial City projects by China Fortune Land Development	14
Peri-urban transformation in the Global South: a comparative socio-spatial analytics approach	14
Knowledge flows and technologies in renewable energies at the regional level in Europe	14
The vulnerability of European regional labour markets to job automation: the role of agglomeration externalities	14
Economic complexity and fertility: insights from a low fertility country	14
Synergy and policy-making in German innovation systems: Smart Specialisation Strategies at national, regional, local levels?	13
Translating Smart Specialisation and entrepreneurial discovery into a process-oriented policy	13
Digitalization in sparsely populated areas: between place-based practices and the smart region agenda	13
Successful economic diversification in less developed regions: long-term trends in turbulent times	13
Chasing after the wind? Green economy strategies, path creation and transitions in the offshore wind industry	13
Financialization under state entrepreneurialism in China	13
Old industrial spaces challenged by platformized value-capture 4.0	13
Evaluating the implementation of Smart Specialisation policy	13
Exploring external urban relational processes: inter-city financial flows complementing global city-regions	13
Digital agendas, regional policy and institutional quality: assessing the Italian broadband plan	13
Human agency, network dynamics and regional development: the behavioural principles of new path creation	13
Rescaling urban development policy in the EU: the impact of integrated place-based approaches in Cohesion Policy	13
Cultural capital and income inequality across Italian regions	13
The geography of knowledge revisited: geographies of KIBS use by a new rural industry	13
The brokerage roles of city-regions in global corporate networks	13
Distance (still) hampers diffusion of innovations	12
Provenance representations in craft beer	12
Financialization of urban development in China: fantasy, fact or somewhere in between?	12
Regional opportunity spaces – observations from Nordic regions	12
A dialogue on uneven development: a distinctly regional problem	12
Promoting cross-border investing by business angels in the European Union	12
A prehistory of the polycentric urban region: excavating Dutch applied geography, 1930–60	12
Breaking with the spatial-cycle model: the shift towards ‘syncurbanization’ in polycentric urban regions	12
Shaping the directionality of sustainability transitions: the diverging development patterns of solar photovoltaics in two Chinese provinces	11
Multidimensional deprivation in heterogeneous rural areas: Spain after the economic crisis	11
The role of system-building agency in regional path creation: insights from the emergence of artificial intelligence in Montreal	11
Defining ‘centres’ in analyses of polycentric urban regions: the case of the Yangtze River Delta	11
Regional reindustrialization patterns and productivity growth in Europe	11
UK analysts’ and policy-makers’ perspectives on Brexit: challenges, priorities and opportunities for subnational areas	11
Economic exposure to regional value chain disruptions: evidence from Wuhan’s lockdown in China	11
Food system transformation for sustainable city-regions: exploring the potential of circular economies	11
Forms of place leadership in local productive systems: from endogenous rerouting to deliberate resistance to change	11
A blessing or curse: the spillover effects of city–county consolidation on local economies	11
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions	11
Environmental and socio-economic policies in oil and gas regions: triple bottom line approach	11
More-than-human city-region foresight: multispecies entanglements in regional governance and planning	11
A data-driven global innovation system approach and the rise of China’s artificial intelligence industry	11
Re-imagining the future: city-region foresight and visioning in an era of fragmented governance	10
The making and consolidation of the first national trademark system: the diffusion of trademarks across Spanish regions, 1850–1920	10
Entrepreneurship in rural regions: the role of industry experience and home advantage for newly founded firms	10
Disruptive innovation and spatial inequality	10
Asset modification for regional industrial restructuring: digitalization of the culture and experience industry and the healthcare sector	10
Urban growth, from manufacturing to consumption and financialization: the case of China’s contemporary urban development	10
Industrial resilience, regional diversification and related variety during times of crisis in the US urban–rural context	10
Strategic coupling in global production networks through international cooperation zones: the Thai–Chinese Rayong Industrial Zone	10
The creative renewal of a craft cluster: the role of materiality and mobility in cluster evolution	10
The spatial features of recent crises in a developing country: analysing regional economic resilience for the Brazilian case	10
Intercity innovation collaboration and the role of high-speed rail connections: evidence from Chinese co-patent data	10
Trademarks, patents and the appropriation strategies of incumbents: the scope of new firm formation in European regions	10
Territorial patterns of R&D+I grants supporting Smart Specialisation projects funded from the ESIF in Poland	10
Shocks, resilience and regional industry policy: Brexit and the automotive sector in two Midlands regions	10

Smart Specialisation Strategy in practice: have regions changed the allocation of Structural Funds?	10
Research versus development: global cities and the location of MNCs’ cross-border R&D investments	10
What drives total factor productivity growth? An examination of spillover effects	10
Urban labour market resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: what is the promise of teleworking?	9
Place-based industrial and regional strategy – levelling the playing field	9
Polycentric spatial structure and its economic performance: evidence from meta-analysis	9
Migration and employment after an economic shock: regional characteristics and migration patterns	9
Output, investment and productivity: the Italian North–South regional divide from a Kaldor–Verdoorn approach	9
COVID-19 as a systemic shock: curb or catalyst for proactive policies towards territorial cohesion?	9
Social innovation for regional energy transition? An agency perspective on transformative change in non-core regions	9
Global connectedness, local embeddedness and creative economies in European cities	9
Regional prices and real incomes in the UK	9
Governance of Industry 4.0 policies: making knowledge services accessible for SMEs	9
Organized crime and waste management costs	9
Regions beyond Industry 4.0	9
Does subnational tax autonomy promote regional convergence? Evidence from OECD countries, 1995–2011	9
Growing shrinking cities	9
Measuring regional quality of government: the public spending quality index based on government contracting data	9
Regional informal institutions, local governance and gendered entrepreneurship	9
Tourism and local growth in Italy	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
Soft information and the geography of SME bank lending	8
The non-linear effect of technological diversification on regional productivity: implications for growth and Smart Specialisation Strategies	8
Powering the local review engine at Yelp and Google: intensive and extensive approaches to crowdsourcing spatial data	8
Rethinking asset modification in regional industrial path development: toward a conceptual framework	8
The promises and pitfalls of operationalizing inclusive growth	8
Social capital and regional innovation: evidence from private firms in the US	8
Modelling and projecting digital trends in European regions: an econometric framework	8
Mimetic isomorphism, offshore outsourcing and backshoring decisions among micro and small enterprises	8
An empirical approach to cross-border spatial planning initiatives in Europe	8
The sustainable well-being of urban and rural areas	8
Exploitation as innovation: research ethics and the governance of experimentation in the urban living lab	8
The impact of metropolitan technology on the non-metropolitan labour market: evidence from US patents	8
Digital divide across the European Union and labour market resilience	8
Place-based policy in southern Italy: evidence from a dose–response approach	8
System-level agency and its many shades: path development in a multidimensional innovation system	8
Innovative mergers and acquisitions and the broker regions of European integration	8
Proposing a regional gender equality index (R-GEI) with an application to Italy	8
History matters: the effects of Chinese ports from 170 years ago on entrepreneurship today	8
Smart Specialisation and learning regions as a competitive strategy for less developed regions	8
The links between regional house prices and share prices in the UK	8
Human capital dynamics: the geographical mobility of high-school graduates towards university in Italy	8