Geographies of production I: An evolutionary revolution?

Abstract

This report profiles the recent upsurge of interest in evolutionary approaches within economic geography. It seeks to do four things: (1) provide evidence of the growing interest in evolutionary economic geography; (2) explore the roots and theoretical underpinnings of the approach; (3) review the main strands of evolutionary economic geography research currently being undertaken; and (4) offer a preliminary evaluation of the strengths and limitations of this increasingly significant body of work.