Beyond lock-in versus evolution, towards punctuated co-evolution: On Ron Martin's 'Rethinking regional path dependence'


Drahokoupil, Jan



DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2011.01089.x
URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j....
Document Type: Article
Year of publication: 2012
The title of a journal, publication series: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Volume: 36
Issue number: 1
Page range: 166-171
Place of publication: Oxford [u.a.]
Publishing house: Blackwell
ISSN: 0309-1317
Publication language: English
Institution: Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Mannheim Centre for European Social Research - Research Department A
Subject: 300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
Abstract: This contribution discusses Ron Martin’s Reopke Lecture in Economic Geography ‘Rethinking Regional Path Dependence: Beyond Lock-in to Evolution’. The lecture offered original ideas on how to avoid some of the pitfalls associated with path-dependence theories and the equilibristic understanding of the temporality of economic change. This contribution addresses the question of co-evolution of the economic and the political in regional and local industrial evolution. It questions the conception of temporality that seems implicit in the framework. It is suggested that the notion of punctuated co-evolution may be a way forward to avoid some of the difficulties in Martin’s model. The contribution concludes by discussing the analytical limits of path-dependence models.




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