Journal
REGIONAL STUDIES
Volume 56, Issue 9, Pages 1524-1537Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2021.1949441
Keywords
evolutionary economic geography; coevolution; path development; institutions; agency
Funding
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [M 2992-G]
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The article introduces the concept of coevolution in evolutionary economic geography, highlighting the importance of retheorizing coevolution to understand the interactions between path development and institutional change in regional economies and on higher spatial scales. It integrates concepts of path development, institutions, institutional change, institutional entrepreneurship, institutional work and nestedness to propose a retheorized concept of coevolution.
Evolutionary economic geography has sought to understand the development of regional industrial pathways but tended to neglect both the multiscalarity of economic development and the role of institutional change. The concept of coevolution seeks to bridge this gap but is still too vague for empirical application. Understanding the interactions between path development and institutional change in regional economies and on higher spatial scales requires retheorizing coevolution along the dimensions of institutional-industrial coevolution, path multiplicity and multiscalarity. The article proposes such a retheorized concept of coevolution by integrating concepts of path development, institutions, institutional change, institutional entrepreneurship, institutional work and nestedness.
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