Rethinking cluster evolution: actors, institutional configurations, and new path development
Rethinking cluster evolution: actors, institutional configurations, and new path development
Despite a flourishing evolutionary economic geography, the cluster evolution literature has been somewhat left behind, and remains somewhat simplistic and deterministic. This article seeks to form a synthesis from recent conceptual advancements in the evolutionary and institutional economic geographies, in pursuit of expanding the cluster evolution literature. In the process it produces a novel way of exploring cluster evolution, through the concept of cluster institutional configurations, which focuses on the ability of different actors to navigate potential lock-ins and to drive cluster evolution, and connects it to broader debates in economic geography.
cluster evolution, cluster life-cycle, institution, institutional configurations, new path development, path creation, path dependence
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Harris, Jack Laurie
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Harris, Jack Laurie
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Harris, Jack Laurie
(2020)
Rethinking cluster evolution: actors, institutional configurations, and new path development.
Progress in Human Geography, .
(doi:10.1177/0309132520926587).
Abstract
Despite a flourishing evolutionary economic geography, the cluster evolution literature has been somewhat left behind, and remains somewhat simplistic and deterministic. This article seeks to form a synthesis from recent conceptual advancements in the evolutionary and institutional economic geographies, in pursuit of expanding the cluster evolution literature. In the process it produces a novel way of exploring cluster evolution, through the concept of cluster institutional configurations, which focuses on the ability of different actors to navigate potential lock-ins and to drive cluster evolution, and connects it to broader debates in economic geography.
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Accepted/In Press date: 23 April 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 27 May 2020
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cluster evolution, cluster life-cycle, institution, institutional configurations, new path development, path creation, path dependence
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/441797
ISSN: 0309-1325
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