scholarly journals Motorsport Valley revisited: Cluster evolution, strategic cluster coupling and resilience

2021 ◽  
pp. 096977642110160
Author(s):  
Nick Henry ◽  
Tim Angus ◽  
Mark Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Economic Geography ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Driven Systems ◽  
Cluster Development ◽  
Evolutionary Economic ◽  
Cluster Evolution ◽  
Development Outcomes

Over 20 years ago a series of papers identified a strikingly dominant economic cluster – the UK’s Motorsport Valley (MSV) – which led to MSV becoming an international exemplar of concepts such as agglomeration, clusters and knowledge-driven systems of regional development. Utilising an evolutionary perspective on cluster development, this paper asks ‘whatever happened to MSV?’. Drawing on the framework of strategic cluster coupling, four cluster development episodes are conceptualised that each depict the dynamic evolution of the cluster’s multi-scalar institutional environment, strategic coupling trajectories and economic development outcomes. Reflecting the emerging synthesis between evolutionary economic geography and geographical political economy, the paper describes an extended case study of cluster development, an evolutionary process of strategic cluster coupling and, ultimately, an example of cluster resilience. Through a focus on strategic cluster coupling, the paper provides further understanding of cluster evolution and path development mechanisms at key moments of cluster reconfiguration – and an empirical update and continuation of the economic story and cluster lifecycle of MSV.

scholarly journals Rethinking cluster evolution: Actors, institutional configurations, and new path development

2020 ◽  
pp. 030913252092658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Laurie Harris
Keyword(s):  
Economic Geography ◽  
Evolutionary Economic Geography ◽  
Institutional Economic ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Evolutionary Economic ◽  
Cluster Evolution

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.

scholarly journals Temporality of agency in regional development

2021 ◽  
pp. 096977642110288
Author(s):  
Markus Grillitsch ◽  
Bjørn Asheim ◽  
Hjalti Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Regional Studies ◽  
Distant Future ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Long Term Consequences ◽  
Development Outcomes

The temporality of agency plays a fundamental role in regional development but has received little attention in economic geography and regional studies. This paper zooms in on two aspects of temporality: the temporality of intentions and the temporality of consequences. The former refers to actors’ perception and valuation of opportunities in the near and distant future, whereas the latter refers to the short- and long-term consequences of actions. This paper studies the temporality of agency in the context of regional development. It investigates how short- and long-term intentions motivate different types of agency, how different types of agency affect short- and long-term regional development outcomes and which conditions enable or constrain different types of agency. We illustrate our arguments with an in-depth case study covering the regional development of a labour market in Norway over the last 20 years.

scholarly journals The Point Bonitation Method and Its Adaptation in Risk Studies: A Case Study in Sri Lanka’s Cities in the Coastal Zone

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 2060
Author(s):  
Dorota Rucińska ◽  
Martyna Zagrzejewska
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Specific Result ◽  
Weighting Method ◽  
Tsunami Risk

Article proposes using weighting method named the Point Bonitation Method, a popular interdisciplinary method, especially in the tourism and socio-economic geography, for giving optional direction to further researching tsunami risk. This method qualifies and quantifies those factors that lead to natural disasters so that it is possible to make comparisons with their roles in disaster areas. This case study in Sri Lanka shows a specific result that is quantification of vulnerability by regions and can be used and developed locally for disaster risk management and reduction. This paper presents discussion about other possible reasons of high risk in regions.

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