Advancing the Understanding of Regional Economic Adaptability in a Non‐Western Context: An Introduction to the Special Issue

In: Growth and change: a journal of urban and regional policy, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 194-200

Abstract

AbstractRegional economic adaptability is a classical topic in economic geography. Studying the fall and necessary restructuring and adaptability of regional economies has a long tradition in Europe, whereas the non‐Western world is a blind spot particularly concerning the use of newer evolutionary theoretical concepts in analysing and explaining regional economic adaptability. The aim of this special issue is therefore to put an evolutionary perspective on industrial dynamics and regional economic adaptability in non‐Western countries, and by doing that to contribute to theorising back from non‐Western countries to mainly Western concepts on regional economic adaptability.