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Journal of Economic Geography 2007 7(5):603-618; doi:10.1093/jeg/lbm020
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Myopia, knowledge development and cluster evolution

Peter Maskell* and Anders Malmberg**

* Copenhagen Business School, DRUID, Danish Research Unit on Industrial Dynamics, Kilevej 14a 3., DK 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark. email < Maskell{at}cbs.dk>
** Uppsala University, Department of Social and Economic Geography & Centre for Research on Innovation and Industrial Dynamics (CIND), PO Box 513, S- 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden. email < Anders.Malmberg{at}kultgeog.uu.se>

JEL classifications:: B52, D02, D83, O18

This article aims to show how processes of knowledge development and their institutional underpinnings make up the core of evolutionary economic geography. We argue that micro level concepts—notably innovation, selection and retention—provide insights that can be helpful also when investigating evolutionary processes of knowledge creation at the aggregate levels of cities, regions or nations. We investigate the linkage between drivers, mechanisms and barriers to knowledge creation and acquisition at the micro-level, and the development over time and across spatial settings of higher-order phenomena of localized institutions and other capabilities. We apply this distinction on the analysis of the rise, growth, decline and possible rejuvenation of spatial clusters of similar and complementary economic activity.

Keywords: Localized learning, routines, institutional change, lock-in, proximity
Date submitted: 30 August 2006     Date accepted: 18 February 2007


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