Economic Geography Journal

📉 What happens when a region is unable to regain economic momentum?

🪤 By adapting the regional development trap to the subnational scale, this article shows how regions across Europe face persistent challenges in improving prosperity.

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🍎 How can alternative food networks challenge mainstream economic norms?

📊 Rosol shows how food networks in places like Berlin and Frankfurt enact economic relations that resist commodification and imagine other ways of organizing economic life.

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🔗 Can stronger linkages turn local factories into engines of broader regional growth?

🏭 Frangenheim et al. reveal how strengthening both forward and backward connections can grow opportunities for regional diversification and upgrading.

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🛠️ How do territorial resources and technological characteristics shape new regional trajectories?

📌 Njøs et al. introduce a framework to show how interconnections between territorial dynamics and technological characteristics shape new industry paths.

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🌵Is specialization or diversification better for green technology development?

💾 Using decades of patent data across US states, this study teases apart how related and unrelated variety matter differently as environmental technology evolves.

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🌐 Does the pattern of technological knowledge matter for regional economic strength?

🧩 By stress-testing the robustness of technology networks across 269 European metropolitan areas, Tóth et al. reveal how network structure conditions economic resilience.

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🕹️ What defines the legitimacy of new technologies across places?

🧠 Heiberg et al. devise a framework that highlights how multiscalar institutional legitimation matters for path creation in emerging technologies.

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📈 What happens beyond the success story of a new regional economic path?

🏭 Breul et al. unpack the multifaceted effects of regional path formation, taking the case of tourism in Namibia and its impacts on local agriculture and the local economy.

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🌍 Who benefits and who bears the cost when environmental standards shape global value chains?

🌳 Krishnan et al. propose a new analytical framework to unpack the environmental dimensions of upgrading and downgrading across value chains.

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♻️ What makes circular economy initiatives actually stick?

🔄 Lekan et al. look at mission-driven social enterprises in Graz, Austria that map and sustain circuits of value that connect material and extraeconomic relations.

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🎭 Are creative industries quietly remodeling cities?

🌃 In England and Wales, the association between creative activity and neighborhood gentrification is modest yet highly context-dependent—though evidently strong in large cities like London.

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🖲️ Have regions cracked the code to effective industrial strategy?

📟 Lo Conte et al. show that regional productivity gains follow when diversification is rooted in existing technological capabilities, hence the power of “relatedness.”

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🌍 How much does ethnicity influence global investment flows?

💰 Culture is shaping capital. Zhou et al. reveal that ethnic networks of intermediaries are central to how SMEs engage in foreign direct investments.

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⏳ What can 159 years of patents reveal about American innovation?

🤖 Crespo & Peiró-Palomino trace a long history of regional specialization in the US to uncover spatial concentrations and shifting innovation hubs.

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🚀 How do transformative systems land in new places?

⚙️ Through the lens of sanitation systems, Miorner, Schelbert, & Binz show that spatial diffusion of innovation involves great experimentation and institutional translation.

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🌾 How do commodities markets engineer stability?

🛠️ Di Luigi, Clark, and Wójcik demonstrate how the institutional backbone of the wheat futures market helps reduce uncertainty, while centralizing power and mitigating risk.

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🏘️ How does migration and service-led growth affect development?

🌐 Randolph and Dutta uncover how India’s internal migrants maintain multi-locational ties, thereby facilitating a structural shift in India’s economy.

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🏢 What lies beneath China’s rapid urban expansion?

🔎 Ang Liu’s article in Economic Geography reveals how “fake equity” enables developers to mask liabilities, linking urban growth to deeper financial vulnerabilities.

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🌐 How do regions navigate industrial transitions?

New in Economic Geography (Sept 2025): Baumgartinger-Seiringer, Páger, and Trippl explore transformative resilience in the context of climate change. Read more 👇

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