👋 Meet Carolina Castaldi, one of Economic Geography's new Editors! Based at Utrecht University, Carolina brings expertise in the geography of innovation.
🔗 Check out her work at scholar.google.com/citations?user=WDsgMjYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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👋 Meet Siobhan McGrath, Economic Geography’s new Editor-in-Chief. We are excited to have her at the helm!
🔗 Check out her work at scholar.google.com/citations?user=1NhWT4QAAAAJ
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🌏 Economic Geography is growing! We are thrilled to welcome 16 new voices to our Editorial Board, broadening the geographic and disciplinary breadth of our journal.
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Over on LinkedIn, we are starting an Economic Geography Research Forum for researchers, academics, and practitioners in the field - to share work, opportunities in the field, and conversations that push economic geography forward. Join today! www.linkedin.com/groups/17806...
♻️ Does bringing production home automatically mean going green?
📌 Linda Stihl, Jonathan Friedrich, & Markus Grillitsch map the conditions under which x-shoring strategies can—and cannot—deliver circular economy outcomes.
🔗 Read more at lnkd.in/eUPNuJYh
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"AI is a global infrastructure in-the-making constituted by uneven developments and its discontents" Kendra Kintzi (in person) and Hilary Faxon (remotely) deliver the Early Career Keynote which we are supporting, organized by the Economic Geography Specialty Group at #AAG2026
📉 What happens when a region is unable to regain economic momentum?
🪤 By adapting the regional development trap to the subnational scale, this article shows how regions across Europe face persistent challenges in improving prosperity.
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🍎 How can alternative food networks challenge mainstream economic norms?
📊 Rosol shows how food networks in places like Berlin and Frankfurt enact economic relations that resist commodification and imagine other ways of organizing economic life.
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🔗 Can stronger linkages turn local factories into engines of broader regional growth?
🏭 Frangenheim et al. reveal how strengthening both forward and backward connections can grow opportunities for regional diversification and upgrading.
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🛠️ How do territorial resources and technological characteristics shape new regional trajectories?
📌 Njøs et al. introduce a framework to show how interconnections between territorial dynamics and technological characteristics shape new industry paths.
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🌵Is specialization or diversification better for green technology development?
💾 Using decades of patent data across US states, this study teases apart how related and unrelated variety matter differently as environmental technology evolves.
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🌐 Does the pattern of technological knowledge matter for regional economic strength?
🧩 By stress-testing the robustness of technology networks across 269 European metropolitan areas, Tóth et al. reveal how network structure conditions economic resilience.
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🕹️ What defines the legitimacy of new technologies across places?
🧠 Heiberg et al. devise a framework that highlights how multiscalar institutional legitimation matters for path creation in emerging technologies.
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📈 What happens beyond the success story of a new regional economic path?
🏭 Breul et al. unpack the multifaceted effects of regional path formation, taking the case of tourism in Namibia and its impacts on local agriculture and the local economy.
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🌍 Who benefits and who bears the cost when environmental standards shape global value chains?
🌳 Krishnan et al. propose a new analytical framework to unpack the environmental dimensions of upgrading and downgrading across value chains.
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♻️ What makes circular economy initiatives actually stick?
🔄 Lekan et al. look at mission-driven social enterprises in Graz, Austria that map and sustain circuits of value that connect material and extraeconomic relations.
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🎭 Are creative industries quietly remodeling cities?
🌃 In England and Wales, the association between creative activity and neighborhood gentrification is modest yet highly context-dependent—though evidently strong in large cities like London.
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🖲️ Have regions cracked the code to effective industrial strategy?
📟 Lo Conte et al. show that regional productivity gains follow when diversification is rooted in existing technological capabilities, hence the power of “relatedness.”
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🌍 How much does ethnicity influence global investment flows?
💰 Culture is shaping capital. Zhou et al. reveal that ethnic networks of intermediaries are central to how SMEs engage in foreign direct investments.
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⏳ What can 159 years of patents reveal about American innovation?
🤖 Crespo & Peiró-Palomino trace a long history of regional specialization in the US to uncover spatial concentrations and shifting innovation hubs.
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🚀 How do transformative systems land in new places?
⚙️ Through the lens of sanitation systems, Miorner, Schelbert, & Binz show that spatial diffusion of innovation involves great experimentation and institutional translation.
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🌾 How do commodities markets engineer stability?
🛠️ Di Luigi, Clark, and Wójcik demonstrate how the institutional backbone of the wheat futures market helps reduce uncertainty, while centralizing power and mitigating risk.
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🏘️ How does migration and service-led growth affect development?
🌐 Randolph and Dutta uncover how India’s internal migrants maintain multi-locational ties, thereby facilitating a structural shift in India’s economy.
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🏢 What lies beneath China’s rapid urban expansion?
🔎 Ang Liu’s article in Economic Geography reveals how “fake equity” enables developers to mask liabilities, linking urban growth to deeper financial vulnerabilities.
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🌐 How do regions navigate industrial transitions?
New in Economic Geography (Sept 2025): Baumgartinger-Seiringer, Páger, and Trippl explore transformative resilience in the context of climate change. Read more 👇
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