Ron Martin

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the cluster concept should carry a public policy health warning: there is much about it that is problematic, and the rush to employ cluster ideas has run ahead of many fundamental conceptual, theoretical and empirical questions.

TL;DR: The authors argue that path dependence and lock-in are place-dependent processes, and as such require geographical explanation, but little is known about why some regional economies become locked into development paths that lose dynamism, whilst other regional economies seem able to avoid this danger and in effect are able to reinvent themselves through successive new paths or phases of development.

TL;DR: This article developed the idea of resilience and examined its usefulness as an aid to understand the reaction of regional economies to major recessionary shocks, and also argued that the notion of resilience can usefully be combined with that of hysteresis in order to more fully capture the possible reactions of regional economy to major recessions.

TL;DR: This article reviewed the different definitions of resilience and their potential application in explaining the long-term development of urban and regional economies and concluded that the evolutionary adaptive cycle model, though not without problems, warrants further study as a framework for analyzing regional economic resilience.

TL;DR: The concept of regional economic resilience has been used for some time in ecology and psychology, both as perceived (and typically positive) attribute of an object, entity or system and, more normatively, as a desired feature that should somehow be promoted or fostered as mentioned in this paper.