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This study contributes to understanding the evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems by examining changes in industry composition and business locations within a specific ecosystem from its inception to 2020. Using longitudinal data from Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel, we investigate shifts in industries within the region and the location decisions of individual entrepreneurs within the city. By integrating these factors, we assess whether the ecosystem consists of distinct, industry-specific sub-ecosystems. Our findings highlight the significant role played by the 'social media and advertising' sector in shaping the ecosystem. Furthermore, we identify a trend of entrepreneurs clustering their businesses in a concentrated area within the city, suggesting enhanced communication and collaboration among entrepreneurs across different industries. However, we note an exception in the 'digital health and medical technologies' industry, where proximity to research institutions, multinational corporations, and hospitals holds greater significance than proximity to entrepreneurs from other sectors.

Economic Geography is a (very) diverse field. To some, this pluralism is, or has been, worrying. In this paper, we however track the discussion about Economic Geography as a field that would gain much from ‘engaged pluralism’. We argue that this requires some agreement on the central role of ‘geography’ and ‘the economic’ in economic geography, but also a catalog of ‘boundary concepts’. We discuss four candidates: (1) crisis and resilience, (2) innovation and diffusion, (3) path dependence and (4) sustainability. We believe that the idea of ‘trading zones’ in economic geography has the potential to modify disciplinary practice and solve some of the tensions between increasing research focus and specialization, and the mounting complexity of contemporary societal issues. We think that the presence of vivid trading zones under conditions of pluralism would make our discipline even more interesting, dynamic, and, we would say, fun.

Over the last years, economic geography has witnessed a growing interest in the role of imaginaries, narratives, visions, and similar ideational concepts. This article sketches the contours of what might be seen as an emerging ideational turn in economic geography by discussing how ideational concepts have been retheorized and applied in the field. The article elaborates on open questions about the state of research on ideational concepts in economic geography and related fields and lays out avenues for future research that an ideational turn could enable.

The national blue economic system is a complex system formed by the correlation of different agents, such as related blue industries, blue products, blue firms and blue provinces in a country. Its essence can be regarded as a complex system formed by the interconnection of a variety of heterogeneous networks. The supernetwork is an important method for studying such multilevel, multidimensional and multiagent correlation problems in network science. This method can effectively assess the intra- and interrelationships of each element entity. This paper incorporates the multielement entities in the national blue economic system into this multilayer network framework for systematic analysis and decomposes the development issue of the blue economy into the development issues of blue industries, blue products, blue firms and blue provinces. On this basis, this paper analyzes the conceptual model of the national blue economic system space, qualitatively describes the intra- and interexport relationships among multifactor entities in national blue economic development from the perspective of the multilayer network, and expounds the modeling principle of the national blue economic system space. This supernetwork approach provides effective new methods and tools for countries to study the development of the blue economy and formulate corresponding policies to achieve blue growth.

In this short paper, we introduce sequence analysis methods to economic geography. Sequence analysis is a rich set of research methods that is widely used to analyze temporal variance in several disciplines in the social sciences, including sociology, demography and employment research. However, the toolbox of sequence methods has yet to gain significant attention among economic geographers. Sequence analysis methods can be used to analyze and understand patterns and structures of various phenomena over time. It employs mathematical and statistical techniques to study the sequential order, duration, and transitions between temporal conditions. We argue that sequence analysis holds great potential for advancing research in (evolutionary) economic geography. In the paper, we explain how to use sequence analysis, we ponder on empirical applications for research in economic geography, and we demonstrate its applicability in a use case. We also provide a reproducible R script and manual for the use case in the online appendix.

We examine the impact of Brexit on London as an international financial centre through the lens of the global financial network (GFN) framework, using quantitative data on selected key financial flows and stocks, as well as qualitative data from interviews and other sources. Our results show very limited impacts on London, and possible gains in New York and the USA rather than in the European Union. The results are compatible with the logic and history of sticky power in the global financial network. Despite some relocations from London, Brexit has not (yet) undermined London’s attractiveness to financial and business services, and the global connectivity they afford to London as an international financial centre. London remains the global conductor of offshore jurisdictions, a role which may be enhanced with more flexible regulation after Brexit. Any forecasts about the future impacts of Brexit on London need to consider the sticky power of the global financial network, and close relationships among its building blocks.

Economic geography, both mainstream and critical, has been dominated by Anglophone scholarship produced by scholars located in institutions on either side of the North Atlantic, and to a lesser extent in those of Britain’s other white settler colonies. This tends to reproduce the view of the world, and of the functioning of space-economies, from those countries deemed to be ‘developed’. Considering the future of the field, progress in economic geography should involve creating space where scholarship produced from beyond this imaginary is taken seriously. Capitalism, the focus of Anglophone economic geography, was not a European invention; it took a particular form in Europe facilitated by colonialism, slavery and white nationalism. Anglophone economic geography has yet to engage properly with critical development studies and the possibility of southern/postcolonial theory. Considering the forcefield of the overlapping crises constituting the present global conjuncture, the discipline’s future should prioritize scholarship that: engages with the rest of the world, examines the ongoing debilitating effects of colonialism and US/UK-centered European capitalism, documents the multifarious connectivities and logistics shaping local economic dynamics, takes seriously more-than-capitalist economic practices, integrates more-than-human agency and cultural processes into the field, attends to the emergent conjuncture of ethno-nationalism and reshoring, and radically diversifies the economic geography community of scholars.

The transition towards Electric Vehicles (EVs) is connecting previously unrelated technologies. We combine an approach to transitions with economic geography, to explore how colocation can support the emergence of coevolution between EV-related sectors. We study technological and geographical relatedness between electric vehicle, battery, smart grid, and combustion engine inventions between 1980 and 2020. Geographical colocation of related technologies can signal coevolution between firms and inventors, that is specifically visible in some classes of cities that we identify. Finally, we fit a multiple regression to estimate the impact of cities’ patenting in related technologies on EV patents. Results show increased relatedness inside cities and growth of colocation in time between electric vehicle, battery, and smart grid patents, demonstrating that relatedness is dynamically evolving during transitions. We also find that combustion engine capabilities are still relevant to support this transition, suggesting path interdependence between cities’ innovative sectors.

Evolutionary economic geography considers knowledge combinations as key for explaining innovation and regional industrial development. Building on the thesis that knowledge is beneficially combined across adjacent industries, the notions of ‘relatedness’ and ‘related variety’ have spurred prolific research. In these strands of research, focus is on potential knowledge combinations, but less so on how knowledge is actually combined. The latter is primarily explained by research on knowledge bases, contributing to a processual understanding. However, knowledge and its combination processes can be better understood with an eye to its social situatedness too. Thus, we here suggest blending insights from different perspectives in the economic geography literature to provide an integrated understanding of the multi-dimensionality and social dynamism of knowledge combination. We apply this framework by investigating the role of individuals in combination processes within tourism.

This article discusses the need for heightened consideration of business-related human rights infringements in regional industrial policies. It discusses why human rights have been neglected in accounts of regional economic growth and proposes a novel policy agenda based on socio-environmental conditionalities. Policy-wise it also recommends that regions build new identities as socially and environmentally responsible places in order to attract investors.