Regional Studies

Article	Citations
Regions in a time of pandemic	109
Complementary interregional linkages and Smart Specialisation: an empirical study on European regions	83
Towards an entrepreneurial ecosystem typology for regional economic development: the role of creative class and entrepreneurship	80
Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks	64
Does lockdown work? A spatial analysis of the spread and concentration of Covid-19 in Italy	63
Integrated, adaptive and participatory spatial planning: trends across Europe	60
Change agency and reproductive agency in the course of industrial path evolution	52
Diversifying in green technologies in European regions: does political support matter?	46
Mapping the potentials of regions in Europe to contribute to new knowledge production in Industry 4.0 technologies	45
Digital economy in the UK: regional productivity effects of early adoption	38
Regional economic resilience in China: measurement and determinants	36
Assembling mega-urban projects through state-guided governance innovation: the development of Lingang in Shanghai	35
Regional innovation systems: what can we learn from 25 years of scientific achievements?	35
‘Left behind places’: a geographical etymology	34
Geographical Indications and local development: the strength of territorial embeddedness	33
Contextualizing agency in new path development: how system selectivity shapes regional reconfiguration capacity	33
The impact of regional inequality on economic growth: a spatial econometric approach	32
Do EU regions benefit from Smart Specialisation principles?	30
Regional planning is dead: long live planning regional futures	30
From ‘entrepreneurial’ to ‘engaged’ universities: social innovation for regional development in the Global South	30
Smart Specialisation on the move: reflections on six years of implementation and prospects for the future	30
The foundational economy and regional development	30
Changing roles of the state in the financialization of urban development throughchengtouin China	29
The geography of Industry 4.0 technologies across European regions	29
City-regional imaginaries and politics of rescaling	28

Fragmented governance, the urban data ecosystem and smart city-regions: the case of Metropolitan Boston	27
Legitimation, institutions and regional path creation: a cross-national study of offshore wind	26
Polycentric urban regions: conceptualization, identification and implications	26
The new normative: synergistic scenario planning for carbon-neutral cities and regions	26
Legitimation dynamics in industrial path development: new-to-the-world versus new-to-the-region industries	25
Pathways of regional transformation and Industry 4.0	25
‘Buzz-and-pipeline’ dynamics in Chinese science: the impact of interurban collaboration linkages on cities’ innovation capacity	25
Regions in Covid-19 recovery	25
Cluster presence and economic performance: a new look based on European data	24
Spillovers across industries and regions in China’s regional economic diversification	24
(Digital) neo-colonialism in the smart city	23
Place-based industrial strategy and economic trajectory: advancing agency-based approaches	22
Positioning regional planning across Europe	22
Future-proof cities through governance experiments? Insights from the Resilient Melbourne Strategy (RMS)	22
Institutional quality and innovation performance: evidence from Italy	22
Making regional citizens? The political drivers and effects of subnational immigrant integration policies in Europe and North America	21
Emerging industries: institutions, legitimacy and system-level agency	21
Spatial structure and productivity in European regions	21
Do airport activities affect regional economies? Regional analysis of New Zealand’s airport system	20
Understanding metropolitan growth in German polycentric urban regions	20
Relatedness, complexity and local growth	20
Does Cohesion Policy reduce EU discontent and Euroscepticism?	20
The rise of urban tech: how innovations for cities come from cities	20
The dark side of the geography of innovation: relatedness, complexity and regional inequality in Europe	19
Regional planning: an arena of interests, institutions and relations	19
Industry 4.0 in industrial districts: regional innovation policy for the Toy Valley district in Spain	19
The Covid-19 shock in European regions	18
Reconsidering regional structural conditions for industrial renewal	18
Can the Internet narrow regional economic disparities?	18
Smart cities and urban inequality	18
Polycentric urban structure and innovation: evidence from a panel of Chinese cities	18
Cooperative banks and local economic growth	18
Regions and trademarks: research opportunities and policy insights from leveraging trademarks in regional innovation studies	18
Towards a problem-oriented regional industrial policy: possibilities for public intervention in framing, valuation and market formation	17
Whither regional planning?	17
Towards an integrated framework of agency in regional development: the case of old industrial regions	17
Rebalancing UK regional and industrial policy post-Brexit and post-Covid-19: lessons learned and priorities for the future	17
Going beyond the line of sight: institutional entrepreneurship and system agency in regional path creation	17
4.0 Technologies and the rise of new islands of innovation in European regions	17
The role of technology and relatedness in regional trademark activity	16
New path creation in the artificial intelligence industry: regional preconditions, new actors and their collective actions, and policies	16
Regional resentment in the Netherlands: A rural or peripheral phenomenon?	16
Smart Specialisation strategies on the periphery: a data-triangulation approach to governance issues and practices	16
Network governance and coordination of a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem	16
Is transparency a way to improve efficiency? An assessment of Spanish municipalities	16
Analysing vote-choice in a multinational state: national identity and territorial differentiation in the 2016 Brexit vote	16
Retheorizing industrial–institutional coevolution: a multidimensional perspective	16
Rethinking the governance and planning of a new generation of greenbelts	16
The competitive advantage of regions: economic geography and strategic management intersections	15
Quality of government and regional trade: evidence from European Union regions	15

Level best? The levelling up agenda and UK regional inequality	15
Immigrant integration policies when regions decide ‘who comes in’: the case of Canadian provinces	15
Development zone policy and high-quality economic growth: quasi-natural experimental evidence from China	15
Economic modelling to evaluate Smart Specialisation: an analysis of research and innovation targets in Southern Europe	14
Spatial structure and subjective well-being in North-West Europe	14
Industry 4.0 technological trajectories and traditional manufacturing regions: the role of knowledge workers	14
The future of Northern Ireland: border anxieties and support for Irish reunification under varieties of UKexit	14
Digital urban production: how does Industry 4.0 reconfigure productive value creation in urban contexts?	14
Entrepreneurship education and firm creation	14
Transcending land–sea dichotomies through strategic spatial planning	14
Inter- and intra-city networks: how networks are shaping China’s film industry	14
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?	14
The economic complexity of US metropolitan areas	14
Smart cities and sustainable development	13
Industry legitimacy: bright and dark phases in regional industry path development	13
The quality of government and administrative performance: explaining Cohesion Policy compliance, absorption and achievements across EU regions	13
A multi-scalar view of urban financialization: urban development and local government bonds in China	13
Costs, incentives, and institutions in bridging evolutionary economic geography and global production networks	13
Network capital and urban development: an inter-urban capital flow network analysis	13
Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis	13
Business-promoted city-regionalism? New Industrial City projects by China Fortune Land Development	13
How do occupational relatedness and complexity condition employment dynamics in periods of growth and recession?	13
Do polycentric urban regions promote functional spillovers and economic performance? Evidence from China	13
Varieties of periphery and local agency in regional development	13
The vulnerability of European regional labour markets to job automation: the role of agglomeration externalities	13
Anchoring talent to regions: the role of universities in graduate retention through employment and entrepreneurship	12
Old industrial spaces challenged by platformized value-capture 4.0	12
Provenance representations in craft beer	12
Institutional relatedness and the emergence of renewable energy cooperatives in German districts	12
The geography of knowledge revisited: geographies of KIBS use by a new rural industry	12
Trademarks as an indicator of regional innovation: evidence from Japanese prefectures	12
Recombinant invention in solar photovoltaic technology: can geographical proximity bridge technological distance?	12
Will reducing border barriers via the EU’s b-solutions lead towards greater European territorial integration?	12
Rescaling urban development policy in the EU: the impact of integrated place-based approaches in Cohesion Policy	12
Regions on course for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: the role of a strong indigenous T-KIBS sector	12
Regional industrial policy in times of big disruption: building dynamic capabilities in regions	12
Economic complexity and fertility: insights from a low fertility country	12
A prehistory of the polycentric urban region: excavating Dutch applied geography, 1930–60	12
Successful economic diversification in less developed regions: long-term trends in turbulent times	12
Chasing after the wind? Green economy strategies, path creation and transitions in the offshore wind industry	12
The brokerage roles of city-regions in global corporate networks	12
Peri-urban transformation in the Global South: a comparative socio-spatial analytics approach	11
Renewing industrial regions? Advanced manufacturing and industrial policy in Britain	11
Urban structure in transition: evidence from Poland, 1983–2011	11
Ethnic enclaves and self-employment among Middle Eastern immigrants in Sweden: ethnic capital or enclave size?	11
The role of geographical and temporary proximity in MNEs’ location and intra-firm co-location choices	11
Exploring external urban relational processes: inter-city financial flows complementing global city-regions	11
What can city leaders do for climate change? Insights from the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group network	11
Digital agendas, regional policy and institutional quality: assessing the Italian broadband plan	11
The curse of natural resources: an empirical analysis of European regions	11
Finding the future in policy discourse: an analysis of city resilience plans	11
The evolution of transport networks and the regional water environment: the case of Chinese high-speed rail	11
Air connectivity and spatial effects: regional differences in Europe	11
Multidimensional deprivation in heterogeneous rural areas: Spain after the economic crisis	11
UK analysts’ and policy-makers’ perspectives on Brexit: challenges, priorities and opportunities for subnational areas	10
Financialization of urban development in China: fantasy, fact or somewhere in between?	10
Entrepreneurs and cluster evolution: the transformation of Toronto’s ICT cluster	10
Networked dynamics of knowledge integration in strategic spatial planning processes: a social network approach	10
Evaluating the implementation of Smart Specialisation policy	10
Knowledge flows and technologies in renewable energies at the regional level in Europe	10
A blessing or curse: the spillover effects of city–county consolidation on local economies	10
Lost in plain sight: revealing central flow process in Christaller’s original central place systems	10
Synergy and policy-making in German innovation systems: Smart Specialisation Strategies at national, regional, local levels?	10
Translating Smart Specialisation and entrepreneurial discovery into a process-oriented policy	10
Digitalization in sparsely populated areas: between place-based practices and the smart region agenda	10
Forms of place leadership in local productive systems: from endogenous rerouting to deliberate resistance to change	10
Regional disparities and industrial structure: territorial capital and productivity in Italian firms	10
Asset modification for regional industrial restructuring: digitalization of the culture and experience industry and the healthcare sector	10
The role of system-building agency in regional path creation: insights from the emergence of artificial intelligence in Montreal	10
Agglomeration externalities of fast-growth firms	10
Strategic coupling in global production networks through international cooperation zones: the Thai–Chinese Rayong Industrial Zone	10
Cultural capital and income inequality across Italian regions	10
Do anchor infrastructures matter for regional Smart Specialisation Strategy? The case of Alentejo	10
Image and reality: ‘digital twins’ in smart factory automotive process innovation – critical issues	10
Trademarks, patents and the appropriation strategies of incumbents: the scope of new firm formation in European regions	9
Industrial resilience, regional diversification and related variety during times of crisis in the US urban–rural context	9
The creative renewal of a craft cluster: the role of materiality and mobility in cluster evolution	9
Smart Specialisation Strategy in practice: have regions changed the allocation of Structural Funds?	9
Regional opportunity spaces – observations from Nordic regions	9
What drives migration moves to urban areas in Spain? Evidence from the Great Recession	9

Spatial planning, nationalism and territorial politics in Europe	9
Shaping the directionality of sustainability transitions: the diverging development patterns of solar photovoltaics in two Chinese provinces	9
Financialization under state entrepreneurialism in China	9
Entrepreneurship in rural regions: the role of industry experience and home advantage for newly founded firms	9
Regional informal institutions, local governance and gendered entrepreneurship	9
Breaking with the spatial-cycle model: the shift towards ‘syncurbanization’ in polycentric urban regions	8
Polycentric spatial structure and its economic performance: evidence from meta-analysis	8
Promoting cross-border investing by business angels in the European Union	8
The sustainable well-being of urban and rural areas	8
Defining ‘centres’ in analyses of polycentric urban regions: the case of the Yangtze River Delta	8
Shocks, resilience and regional industry policy: Brexit and the automotive sector in two Midlands regions	8
A dialogue on uneven development: a distinctly regional problem	8
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions	8
What drives total factor productivity growth? An examination of spillover effects	8
Food system transformation for sustainable city-regions: exploring the potential of circular economies	8
Human agency, network dynamics and regional development: the behavioural principles of new path creation	8
Territorial patterns of R&D+I grants supporting Smart Specialisation projects funded from the ESIF in Poland	8
Exploitation as innovation: research ethics and the governance of experimentation in the urban living lab	8
Patterns of policy learning in the RIS3 processes of less developed regions	8
A model for NTBF creation in less developed regions based on the Smart Specialisation concept: the case of regions in Iran	8
The spatial features of recent crises in a developing country: analysing regional economic resilience for the Brazilian case	8
Global connectedness, local embeddedness and creative economies in European cities	8
Migration and employment after an economic shock: regional characteristics and migration patterns	8
Measuring regional quality of government: the public spending quality index based on government contracting data	8
More-than-human city-region foresight: multispecies entanglements in regional governance and planning	8
Towards a ‘harmonious society’? Multidimensional development and the convergence of Chinese provinces	8
Rethinking asset modification in regional industrial path development: toward a conceptual framework	8
Negotiating Brexit: power dynamics in British intergovernmental relations	8
Research versus development: global cities and the location of MNCs’ cross-border R&D investments	7
Tourism and local growth in Italy	7
Modelling and projecting digital trends in European regions: an econometric framework	7
Governance of Industry 4.0 policies: making knowledge services accessible for SMEs	7
Distance (still) hampers diffusion of innovations	7
The making and consolidation of the first national trademark system: the diffusion of trademarks across Spanish regions, 1850–1920	7
Human capital dynamics: the geographical mobility of high-school graduates towards university in Italy	7
The links between regional house prices and share prices in the UK	7
Urban labour market resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: what is the promise of teleworking?	7
Regions beyond Industry 4.0	7
The impact of the new Northern Ireland protocol: can Northern Ireland enjoy the best of both worlds?	7
Urban growth, from manufacturing to consumption and financialization: the case of China’s contemporary urban development	7
Regional prices and real incomes in the UK	7
Smart Specialisation and learning regions as a competitive strategy for less developed regions	7
Positive feedback in skill aggregation across Chinese cities	7
A data-driven global innovation system approach and the rise of China’s artificial intelligence industry	7
The impact of metropolitan technology on the non-metropolitan labour market: evidence from US patents	7
Not all roads lead to London: insularity, disconnection and the challenge to ‘regional’ creative industries policy	7
Regional reindustrialization patterns and productivity growth in Europe	7
Cohesion Policy, tourism and culture in Italy: a regional policy evaluation	7
Does subnational tax autonomy promote regional convergence? Evidence from OECD countries, 1995–2011	7
Place-based policy in southern Italy: evidence from a dose–response approach	7
Growing shrinking cities	7
A data-based approach to identifying regional typologies and exemplars across the urban–rural gradient in Europe using affinity propagation	7
How does asymmetric decentralization affect local fiscal performance?	7
High-growth firm shares in Austrian regions: the role of economic structures	7
Powering the local review engine at Yelp and Google: intensive and extensive approaches to crowdsourcing spatial data	7
Output, investment and productivity: the Italian North–South regional divide from a Kaldor–Verdoorn approach	7
Digital divide across the European Union and labour market resilience	7
Negative human capital externalities in well-being: evidence from Chinese cities	6
Small business and poverty: evidence from post-Soviet cities	6
Regions, emotions and left-behindness: a phase model for understanding the emergence of regional embitterment	6
Assessing the impact of special economic zones on regional growth through a comparison among EU countries	6
The attractiveness of university and corporate anchor tenants in the conception of a new cluster	6
Why territory matters for implementing active subsidiarity in EU regional policy	6
Mimetic isomorphism, offshore outsourcing and backshoring decisions among micro and small enterprises	6
The non-linear effect of technological diversification on regional productivity: implications for growth and Smart Specialisation Strategies	6
Social innovation for regional energy transition? An agency perspective on transformative change in non-core regions	6
Place-based industrial and regional strategy – levelling the playing field	6
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge	6
Two logics of regionalism: the development of a regional imaginary in the Toronto–Waterloo Innovation Corridor	6
System-level agency and its many shades: path development in a multidimensional innovation system	6
Environmental and socio-economic policies in oil and gas regions: triple bottom line approach	6
Industrial policy, productivity and place: London as a ‘role model’ and High Speed 2 (HS2)	6
Territorial collaboration: a novel way to spread prosperity	6
The role of Cohesion Policy for sustaining the resilience of European regional labour markets during different crises	6
The legacy of literacy: evidence from Italian regions	6
Internal migration and house prices in Australia	6
Greening through digitalisation? Evidence from cities in China	6
Crisis, what crisis? Conceptualizing crisis, UK pluri-constitutionalism and Brexit politics	6
Proximity effects and labour specialization transitions in Mexico: a spatial Markov chain analysis	6
Innovative mergers and acquisitions and the broker regions of European integration	6
Soft information and the geography of SME bank lending	6
Public policy for addressing the low-skills low-wage trap: insights from business case studies in the Birmingham city-region, UK	6
Proposing a regional gender equality index (R-GEI) with an application to Italy	6
Regional retail landscapes emerging from spatial network analysis	6
Disruptive innovation and spatial inequality	6
Do innovation and human capital actually narrow the technology gap? Champions and laggards of European regional productive performance	5
An empirical approach to cross-border spatial planning initiatives in Europe	5
From forecasts to scenarios in strategic city-regional land-use and transportation planning	5
‘Making blockchain real’: regulatory discourses of blockchains as a smart, civic service	5
Asymmetry in the distribution of benefits of cross-border regional innovation systems: the case of the Hong Kong–Shenzhen innovation system	5
Higher education, regional growth and cohesion: insights from the Spanish case	5
Documenting the ‘soft spaces’ of London planning: Opportunity Areas as institutional fix in a growth-oriented city	5
From brawn to brains: manufacturing–KIBS interdependency	5
The geographical dimension of productivity in Great Britain, 2011–18: the sources of the London productivity advantage	5
Brexit, the mediation strategies of foreign corporate subsidiaries and regional resilience	5