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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
卷 23, 期 1, 页码 231-249出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbac028
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Periphery; innovation; regional development; social networks; relational analysis
This article reconstructs discussions of periphery in the context of the geography of firm-level innovation, arguing for a relational definition of periphery as a distant, dispersed, and disconnected position relative to a core within a field. The authors propose a dual core-periphery framework that combines geographic and network dimensions to scrutinize the role of periphery in innovation processes. Although focused on the geography of innovation, this framework can be applied more broadly to discussions of peripherality.
The continued emphasis on innovation in urban and clustered settings has led many geographers to conceive peripheries as laggard and non-innovative. After reconstructing discussions of the periphery in the context of the geography of firm-level innovation, we argue that normative connotations should be stripped away, and that 'periphery' and 'center' are better understood as positions in a field. We draw upon concepts current in network theory and propose a relational definition of periphery as a distant, dispersed and disconnected position relative to a core within a field. A key distinction is made between the position of an actor in geographical space (location) and the position of an actor in a social network of relations. Combining geographic and network dimensions of an actor's position, our aim in this article is to propose a dual core-periphery framework which provides the vocabulary and concepts to empirically scrutinize the role of periphery in innovation processes. Although we focus on the geography of innovation, this framework can be applied more broadly to discussions of peripherality.
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