Mapping paradigm shifts in the geography of innovation

The study quantifies important theoretical tendencies in the geography of innovation in a historical view based on a novel big-data approach. It shows that the field was “born” only in the nineteen eighties after long periods (i.e. the first half of the 20th century) of analysing economic growth and regional development without endogenising the production process of innovation. The paper presents important shifts in the basic assumptions of models with the increasing use of the terms “economic instability” or “asymmetric information” instead of “economic equilibrium” and “perfect information”. These mean a deviation from traditional neoclassical regional economics, which is reflected in the fact that “geography of innovation” gained the same level of popularity in the 2000s as “industrial geography”. The paper shows that although the decline of the Marshallian term “industrial district” stopped in parallel with the work of Becattini, a new innovation systems theory took over the relative frequency of mention of the industrial district by the turn of the new millennium.

USE OF INDUSTRIAL LAND IN AL-MAHMODIYA DISTRICT

Purpose of the study: The research aims to examine the impact of factors related to the spatial distribution of industries and determine their importance in controlling the economic activity of Mahmoudiyah City to determine the direction of the industry compass on the level of this district. There are different industry types in this city, including hand or small industry, such as spinning, knitting, and fancywork industry. As well as light industry, for example, woven, cane, building materials, wooden and metallic industry. Methodology: This research is of theoretical type, and the research method is descriptive-analytical, and the method of data collection is a library and has been done by referring to documents, books, and articles. Results: The results showed that more of these industries mentioned above are found in Al-mahmodiya center and Al-latefiya because found labor market and its nearly of consumed as well as increase of population with different skills hands lead to the stable economic and social case. There is a challenge in the provided modern machine and discontinue of electric current, leading to decreased production. Application: This study can be useful in the Studies of Industrial Geography. Novelty: This field study indicates that the industrial craft is affected by choosing the suitable place for industrial plants to reduce the pollution and noise ratio in the known industrial regions and describes one of the major problems that still exists is the return of land ownership.

Impacts of Public Telecommunications Policy on Industrial Geography and Welfare

We include a clear distinction between transport and telecommunication infrastructures. We assume that public expenditure enables Information Technology Enabled Services to be traded abroad without the use of traditional transport modes. We show that the increase in the knowledge spillovers mainly related to mobile human capital and trade of services can develop industrialization in developing country, leading to less spatial inequalities. This latter must invest more in telecommunication than in transportation infrastructures to attract both industrial and knowledge activities. The welfare level will be improved for skilled workers in both countries when public policy decreases the cost of trading knowledge.

After precarity: A geography of dark news and digital hope on the island of Lolland

Journalists and artists in the global North tend to amplify certain geographies as go-to scenes of post-industrial abandonment. But sometimes those who live in these geographies foreground hope against this dark imaginary. How do we make sense of a situation that seemingly calls for an analysis of precarious life when those who live in that situation does not want to be understood in precarious terms? By enjoining cultural representations and empirical fieldwork on the Danish island of Lolland with Eve Kosofky Sedgwick’s essay on symptomatic and reparative reading, I show how a troubled post-industrial geography challenges us to open an analysis where both precarity and hope remain available. I begin with interpreting the figuration of Lolland in media and popular culture as symptomatic reading, a reoccurring interpretation of the island as precarity’s prime example. I then work through the locally popular hash-tag of #LollandFalsterLovestorm to show how the jamming of darkness by digital optimism can foreground reparative reading, a willingness to analyze the place in terms of the affective resources it has to offer the self. I finally bring out the mutuality of reparative and symptomatic analysis on Lolland: in representations, strategies and the ordinary, hope moves through precarity in geographies of compromised upwards mobility.