This article attempts to explore how key notions from Evolutionary Economics, such as
selection, path-dependency, chance and increasing returns, may be applied to two key topics in …

… Boschma RA, Lambooy JG 1998) Economic evolution and the adjustment of the spatial matrix
of regions. In: Van Dijk J, Boekema F ed) Innovatie in bedrijf en regio. Van Gorcum, Assen, …

The industrial rise of the Third Italy has been characterized by the growth of dynamic networks
of flexible small and medium–sized enterprises (SMEs) that are spatially concentrated in …

Knowledge is considered as a main source of economic growth for nations and regions. It is
the basis for technological development and for increasing the productivity of capital and …

In a generalized form two kinds of systems of cities exist in Europe: those with a strongly
dominating city, and those with a polynucleated structure. The Netherlands show the latter type. …

The increasing attention for the economic value of the scientific work produced in
universities has resulted in a multitude of concepts concerning the production and transfer of …

Regional economic analysis relies heavily on the concept of knowledge spillovers to explain
economic development. But this concept is too limited since it does not explain the actual …

There is a growing body of literature on ‘embeddedness’. The idea had been introduced by
Polanyi (1944) and Granovetter (1985) to indicate that economic relations co-exist with a set …

Based on an overview of historical conceptualizations of knowledge, knowledge diffusion
and innovation in cities, we make a plea for conceptual and methodological renewals in …

The Dutch welfare state at present seems to be in dire straits. The costs of maintaining a very
extensive system of social benefits rose very fast in the 1980s and have become an almost …