Journal
REGIONAL STUDIES
Volume 49, Issue 5, Pages 733-751Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2014.959481
Keywords
O18; R; R1; B; O; R11; O1; B5; B52; Resilient networks; Regional resilience; Regional branching; Institutional change; Path dependence; Evolutionary economic geography
Funding
- Open Research Area in Europe for the Social Sciences (ORA): 'Territories and Technologies in an Unstable Knowledge Economy: An Evolutionary Framework of Regional Resilience'
- NWO (Netherlands)
- ANR (France)
- ESRC (UK)
- DFG (Germany)
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Boschma R. Towards an evolutionary perspective on regional resilience, Regional Studies. This paper proposes an evolutionary perspective on regional resilience. It conceptualizes resilience not just as the ability of a region to accommodate shocks, but extends it to the long-term ability of regions to develop new growth paths. A comprehensive view on regional resilience is proposed in which history is key to understand how regions develop new growth paths, and in which industrial, network and institutional dimensions of resilience come together. Resilient regions are capable of overcoming a trade-off between adaptation and adaptability, as embodied in related and unrelated variety, loosely coupled networks and loosely coherent institutional structures.
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