Regional Studies

Article	Citations
Regions in a time of pandemic	101
Regional disparities in economic resilience in the European Union across the urban–rural divide	81
Towards an entrepreneurial ecosystem typology for regional economic development: the role of creative class and entrepreneurship	73
Complementary interregional linkages and Smart Specialisation: an empirical study on European regions	64
Does lockdown work? A spatial analysis of the spread and concentration of Covid-19 in Italy	59
Integrated, adaptive and participatory spatial planning: trends across Europe	55
Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks	52
Change agency and reproductive agency in the course of industrial path evolution	51
Mapping the potentials of regions in Europe to contribute to new knowledge production in Industry 4.0 technologies	40
Diversifying in green technologies in European regions: does political support matter?	39
Institutional quality and firms’ productivity in European regions	36
Assembling mega-urban projects through state-guided governance innovation: the development of Lingang in Shanghai	33
Digital economy in the UK: regional productivity effects of early adoption	32
Regional innovation systems: what can we learn from 25 years of scientific achievements?	32
Regional economic resilience in China: measurement and determinants	32
Contextualizing agency in new path development: how system selectivity shapes regional reconfiguration capacity	30
The impact of regional inequality on economic growth: a spatial econometric approach	30
Regional planning is dead: long live planning regional futures	30
From ‘entrepreneurial’ to ‘engaged’ universities: social innovation for regional development in the Global South	29
The geography of Industry 4.0 technologies across European regions	28
Geographical Indications and local development: the strength of territorial embeddedness	28
Smart Specialisation on the move: reflections on six years of implementation and prospects for the future	28
How new airport infrastructure promotes tourism: evidence from a synthetic control approach in German regions	27
The foundational economy and regional development	26
Changing roles of the state in the financialization of urban development throughchengtouin China	26

Do EU regions benefit from Smart Specialisation principles?	25
The new normative: synergistic scenario planning for carbon-neutral cities and regions	25
City-regional imaginaries and politics of rescaling	24
Legitimation, institutions and regional path creation: a cross-national study of offshore wind	24
Regions in Covid-19 recovery	23
‘Left behind places’: a geographical etymology	23
Tensions in city-regional spatial planning: the challenge of interpreting layered institutional rules	23
Fragmented governance, the urban data ecosystem and smart city-regions: the case of Metropolitan Boston	22
Pathways of regional transformation and Industry 4.0	22
Polycentric urban regions: conceptualization, identification and implications	22
Cluster presence and economic performance: a new look based on European data	21
Understanding heterogeneous spatial production externalities as a missing link between land-use planning and urban economic futures	21
‘Buzz-and-pipeline’ dynamics in Chinese science: the impact of interurban collaboration linkages on cities’ innovation capacity	21
(Digital) neo-colonialism in the smart city	21
Spillovers across industries and regions in China’s regional economic diversification	21
Future-proof cities through governance experiments? Insights from the Resilient Melbourne Strategy (RMS)	21
Positioning regional planning across Europe	20
Place-based industrial strategy and economic trajectory: advancing agency-based approaches	20
Spatial structure and productivity in European regions	19
Does broadband internet allow cities to ‘borrow size’? Evidence from the Swedish labour market	19
New financial geographies of Asia	19
Legitimation dynamics in industrial path development: new-to-the-world versus new-to-the-region industries	19
Institutional quality and innovation performance: evidence from Italy	19
Industry 4.0 in industrial districts: regional innovation policy for the Toy Valley district in Spain	18
Making regional citizens? The political drivers and effects of subnational immigrant integration policies in Europe and North America	18
Do airport activities affect regional economies? Regional analysis of New Zealand’s airport system	18
Regional planning: an arena of interests, institutions and relations	18
Emerging industries: institutions, legitimacy and system-level agency	18
Does Cohesion Policy reduce EU discontent and Euroscepticism?	18
Going beyond the line of sight: institutional entrepreneurship and system agency in regional path creation	17
Understanding metropolitan growth in German polycentric urban regions	17
Retheorizing industrial–institutional coevolution: a multidimensional perspective	16
New path creation in the artificial intelligence industry: regional preconditions, new actors and their collective actions, and policies	16
Is transparency a way to improve efficiency? An assessment of Spanish municipalities	16
Analysing vote-choice in a multinational state: national identity and territorial differentiation in the 2016 Brexit vote	16
Relatedness, complexity and local growth	16
Can the Internet narrow regional economic disparities?	16
Recovery or stagnation?: Britain’s older industrial towns since the recession	16
Whither regional planning?	16
Reconsidering regional structural conditions for industrial renewal	16
The rise of urban tech: how innovations for cities come from cities	16
Regions and trademarks: research opportunities and policy insights from leveraging trademarks in regional innovation studies	16
Rethinking the governance and planning of a new generation of greenbelts	16
Rebalancing UK regional and industrial policy post-Brexit and post-Covid-19: lessons learned and priorities for the future	16
Polycentric urban structure and innovation: evidence from a panel of Chinese cities	16
The role of technology and relatedness in regional trademark activity	16
The Covid-19 shock in European regions	15
4.0 Technologies and the rise of new islands of innovation in European regions	15
The dark side of the geography of innovation: relatedness, complexity and regional inequality in Europe	15
Smart cities and urban inequality	15

The competitive advantage of regions: economic geography and strategic management intersections	15
Cooperative banks and local economic growth	15
Towards a problem-oriented regional industrial policy: possibilities for public intervention in framing, valuation and market formation	14
Smart Specialisation strategies on the periphery: a data-triangulation approach to governance issues and practices	14
Immigrant integration policies when regions decide ‘who comes in’: the case of Canadian provinces	14
Towards an integrated framework of agency in regional development: the case of old industrial regions	13
Digital urban production: how does Industry 4.0 reconfigure productive value creation in urban contexts?	13
Industry 4.0 technological trajectories and traditional manufacturing regions: the role of knowledge workers	13
Quality of government and regional trade: evidence from European Union regions	13
The future of Northern Ireland: border anxieties and support for Irish reunification under varieties of UKexit	13
Network governance and coordination of a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem	13
Business-promoted city-regionalism? New Industrial City projects by China Fortune Land Development	13
Costs, incentives, and institutions in bridging evolutionary economic geography and global production networks	13
Spatial structure and subjective well-being in North-West Europe	13
Level best? The levelling up agenda and UK regional inequality	12
A prehistory of the polycentric urban region: excavating Dutch applied geography, 1930–60	12
Inter- and intra-city networks: how networks are shaping China’s film industry	12
A multi-scalar view of urban financialization: urban development and local government bonds in China	12
Provenance representations in craft beer	12
Do polycentric urban regions promote functional spillovers and economic performance? Evidence from China	12
Entrepreneurship education and firm creation	12
The vulnerability of European regional labour markets to job automation: the role of agglomeration externalities	12
Network capital and urban development: an inter-urban capital flow network analysis	12
Rescaling urban development policy in the EU: the impact of integrated place-based approaches in Cohesion Policy	12
Trademarks as an indicator of regional innovation: evidence from Japanese prefectures	12
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?	12
The geography of knowledge revisited: geographies of KIBS use by a new rural industry	11
Ethnic enclaves and self-employment among Middle Eastern immigrants in Sweden: ethnic capital or enclave size?	11
How do occupational relatedness and complexity condition employment dynamics in periods of growth and recession?	11
Economic modelling to evaluate Smart Specialisation: an analysis of research and innovation targets in Southern Europe	11
Regions on course for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: the role of a strong indigenous T-KIBS sector	11
Work experience and graduate migration: an event history analysis of German data	11
Multidimensional deprivation in heterogeneous rural areas: Spain after the economic crisis	11
Will reducing border barriers via the EU’s b-solutions lead towards greater European territorial integration?	11
Industry legitimacy: bright and dark phases in regional industry path development	11
The quality of government and administrative performance: explaining Cohesion Policy compliance, absorption and achievements across EU regions	11
Digital agendas, regional policy and institutional quality: assessing the Italian broadband plan	11
Air connectivity and spatial effects: regional differences in Europe	11
Recombinant invention in solar photovoltaic technology: can geographical proximity bridge technological distance?	11
Old industrial spaces challenged by platformized value-capture 4.0	11
Transcending land–sea dichotomies through strategic spatial planning	11
Smart cities and sustainable development	10
Translating Smart Specialisation and entrepreneurial discovery into a process-oriented policy	10
Tourism inward investment and regional economic development effects: perspectives from tourism satellite accounts	10
Successful economic diversification in less developed regions: long-term trends in turbulent times	10
Institutional relatedness and the emergence of renewable energy cooperatives in German districts	10
The evolution of transport networks and the regional water environment: the case of Chinese high-speed rail	10
Endogenous amenities, tourists’ happiness and competitiveness	10
Networked dynamics of knowledge integration in strategic spatial planning processes: a social network approach	10
The role of geographical and temporary proximity in MNEs’ location and intra-firm co-location choices	10
Digitalization in sparsely populated areas: between place-based practices and the smart region agenda	10
Varieties of periphery and local agency in regional development	10
Urban structure in transition: evidence from Poland, 1983–2011	10
The brokerage roles of city-regions in global corporate networks	10
The economic complexity of US metropolitan areas	10
Economic complexity and fertility: insights from a low fertility country	10
Entrepreneurs and cluster evolution: the transformation of Toronto’s ICT cluster	10
Do anchor infrastructures matter for regional Smart Specialisation Strategy? The case of Alentejo	10
Image and reality: ‘digital twins’ in smart factory automotive process innovation – critical issues	10
Exploring external urban relational processes: inter-city financial flows complementing global city-regions	10
UK analysts’ and policy-makers’ perspectives on Brexit: challenges, priorities and opportunities for subnational areas	9
Traditions of regional citizenship: Explaining subnational variation of the right to healthcare for undocumented immigrants	9
Trademarks, patents and the appropriation strategies of incumbents: the scope of new firm formation in European regions	9
Synergy and policy-making in German innovation systems: Smart Specialisation Strategies at national, regional, local levels?	9
Renewing industrial regions? Advanced manufacturing and industrial policy in Britain	9
Forms of place leadership in local productive systems: from endogenous rerouting to deliberate resistance to change	9
Regional resentment in the Netherlands: A rural or peripheral phenomenon?	9
Lost in plain sight: revealing central flow process in Christaller’s original central place systems	9
Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis	9
Anchoring talent to regions: the role of universities in graduate retention through employment and entrepreneurship	9
The role of system-building agency in regional path creation: insights from the emergence of artificial intelligence in Montreal	9
Strategic coupling in global production networks through international cooperation zones: the Thai–Chinese Rayong Industrial Zone	9
Spatial planning, nationalism and territorial politics in Europe	9
Regional disparities and industrial structure: territorial capital and productivity in Italian firms	9
Regional industrial policy in times of big disruption: building dynamic capabilities in regions	9
Shaping the directionality of sustainability transitions: the diverging development patterns of solar photovoltaics in two Chinese provinces	9
Development zone policy and high-quality economic growth: quasi-natural experimental evidence from China	9
Financialization of urban development in China: fantasy, fact or somewhere in between?	9
Agglomeration externalities of fast-growth firms	9
Finding the future in policy discourse: an analysis of city resilience plans	9

Entrepreneurship in rural regions: the role of industry experience and home advantage for newly founded firms	9
Smart Specialisation: insights from the North American periphery	9
Asset modification for regional industrial restructuring: digitalization of the culture and experience industry and the healthcare sector	9
Cultural capital and income inequality across Italian regions	8
Towards a ‘harmonious society’? Multidimensional development and the convergence of Chinese provinces	8
Knowledge flows and technologies in renewable energies at the regional level in Europe	8
A model for NTBF creation in less developed regions based on the Smart Specialisation concept: the case of regions in Iran	8
Regional impacts of the EU Rural Development Programme: Poland’s food processing sector	8
Territorial patterns of R&D+I grants supporting Smart Specialisation projects funded from the ESIF in Poland	8
The sustainable well-being of urban and rural areas	8
Evaluating the implementation of Smart Specialisation policy	8
Rethinking regions in turbulent times	8
Smart Specialisation Strategy in practice: have regions changed the allocation of Structural Funds?	8
Negotiating Brexit: power dynamics in British intergovernmental relations	8
The curse of natural resources: an empirical analysis of European regions	8
More-than-human city-region foresight: multispecies entanglements in regional governance and planning	8
The creative renewal of a craft cluster: the role of materiality and mobility in cluster evolution	8
Shocks, resilience and regional industry policy: Brexit and the automotive sector in two Midlands regions	8
Exploitation as innovation: research ethics and the governance of experimentation in the urban living lab	8
Regional informal institutions, local governance and gendered entrepreneurship	8
Chasing after the wind? Green economy strategies, path creation and transitions in the offshore wind industry	8
What drives migration moves to urban areas in Spain? Evidence from the Great Recession	8
Measuring regional quality of government: the public spending quality index based on government contracting data	8
High-growth firm shares in Austrian regions: the role of economic structures	7
Diversity as the key to success? Urban and rural employment dynamics in the Netherlands	7
Not all roads lead to London: insularity, disconnection and the challenge to ‘regional’ creative industries policy	7
A blessing or curse: the spillover effects of city–county consolidation on local economies	7
The impact of the new Northern Ireland protocol: can Northern Ireland enjoy the best of both worlds?	7
What drives total factor productivity growth? An examination of spillover effects	7
Global connectedness, local embeddedness and creative economies in European cities	7
Peri-urban transformation in the Global South: a comparative socio-spatial analytics approach	7
Distance (still) hampers diffusion of innovations	7
Regional opportunity spaces – observations from Nordic regions	7
The links between regional house prices and share prices in the UK	7
Patterns of policy learning in the RIS3 processes of less developed regions	7
The impact of metropolitan technology on the non-metropolitan labour market: evidence from US patents	7
Urban labour market resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: what is the promise of teleworking?	7
Regions beyond Industry 4.0	7
The spatial features of recent crises in a developing country: analysing regional economic resilience for the Brazilian case	7
What can city leaders do for climate change? Insights from the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group network	7
Migration and employment after an economic shock: regional characteristics and migration patterns	7
Industrial resilience, regional diversification and related variety during times of crisis in the US urban–rural context	7
Positive feedback in skill aggregation across Chinese cities	7
Output, investment and productivity: the Italian North–South regional divide from a Kaldor–Verdoorn approach	7
Defining ‘centres’ in analyses of polycentric urban regions: the case of the Yangtze River Delta	7
Intention to become a citizen: do subnational integration policies have an influence? Empirical evidence from Swiss cantons	7
A dialogue on uneven development: a distinctly regional problem	7
Breaking with the spatial-cycle model: the shift towards ‘syncurbanization’ in polycentric urban regions	7
Does subnational tax autonomy promote regional convergence? Evidence from OECD countries, 1995–2011	7
Place-based policy in southern Italy: evidence from a dose–response approach	7
Growing shrinking cities	7
Polycentric spatial structure and its economic performance: evidence from meta-analysis	7
Smart Specialisation and learning regions as a competitive strategy for less developed regions	7
How does asymmetric decentralization affect local fiscal performance?	7