Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Regional economies, but global too
The importance of regional economic change and long-term growth
A regional lens on a global economy, where distances matter less and places matter more
A regional lens on what firms do
Regional economic change and growth: production and productivity
Regional divergence, development and policy
The outline of the book
Discussion points
2 Evolutionary economic geography
Evolutionary economic geography: how and why regional economies change across time
Novelty, diversification and evolution
Retention and evolution
Selection and evolution
A global perspective on regional economic evolution
Evolutions, relations and time
Discussion points
3 Time geography
Space and time
Coordination of people and things
Constraints and prism
Discussion points
4 An evolutionary perspective on economic production
What is produced?
Cars
Resources, uses and capabilities
Objections and overall lessons
Discussion points
5 Resources in firms and in regions
What resources are
Resources and geography: resource portability
Resource appropriability
Resource specificity
Resource properties in combination
Discussion points
6 Creation, use and curation of regional resources
Change in regional resource repertoires
Regional resource creation
Regional resource use
Regional resource curation
Creation, use and curation
Discussion points
7 Regional economic change: path dependency and radical transformation
More evolution!
Incremental industrial change and branching processes
Regional branching, related diversification and regional path dependency
Industrial change and structural change
Relatedness and structural change.

Discussion points
8 Agglomerations
What is happening within regions and agglomerations?
Agglomeration advantages
Agglomerations and time: the dynamic movement
The relatedness idea and regional economic coherence
Agglomerations, resource creation and resource curation
Localization advantages, related activities and incremental industrial change
Variation advantages, incremental and structural change
How regional economic change sometimes works: radical change where agglomerations have little impact
Agency
Discussion points
9 Evolutionary economic geography and time geography
Globalization, regional resource uses and time geography
Generalizing "individuals" to "resources" in time-space
How time geography constraints affect the creation, use and curation of regional resources
Cars again
Changed constraints
Discussion points
10 The secular change: globalization, decreased constraints and the portability of resource use
What goes on between regions and agglomerations in a globalized economy?
Decreased constraints underpinning globalization
Globalization, portability of resource uses and regional economic change
Use imports, and cars and trucks for the last time!
Export of resource use
Discussion points
11 Conclusions
Policy as a regional resource
Resource creation and use
Resource curation
Capability branching: smart specialization
Next steps
References
Index.