Jan Gerard Lambooy

• Prof dr
• Retired at Utrecht University dep.of economic geography. Retired.

This book is An Introduction to Evcolutionary Economics

This chapter provides an overview of current theories and empirical research on cities and the knowledge economy. Two recent and interrelated streams of literature are discussed: the first focusing on agglomeration economies related to increasing returns and knowledge spillovers of firms in cities and the second highlighting the role of knowledge w...

In this paper we investigate the spatial aspects of the conditions of entrepreneurship on the one hand, and the consequences of entrepreneurship on the other hand. The consequences are the effects of individual interactions that may lead to the emergence of complex systems that are largely the "result of human action, but not of human design" (Haye...

Research organizations within enterprises and universities are part of a (regional) innovation system (RIS). An important question concerns the nature of the relation between an RIS and regional economic growth. To be more specific: how to organize the transfer of information and knowledge? How is this related to embeddedness? Networks are organiza...

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 transfer of knowledge. That requires looking into social networks and social capital in order to explain the flow of non-codified knowledge. This paper contributes to...

1. Introduction The relation between technology and economic development has been investigated extensively. Their combined impact on spatial development, in particular on urbanisa-tion, the location of firms and the emergence of new regional economic patterns, still needs to get more attention. With spatial patterns (or spatial structures) we do no...

The common observation that the economic base of cities is shifting from manufacturing to services is too simplistic. The transformation is more fundamental. The production of goods and services is interrelated. Production in both areas is guided by firms that are increasingly knowledge-dependent. The services sector is often the leading force in u...

Innovation, as a concept, was introduced by Schumpeter to denote the introduction of five kinds of possible new approaches by entrepreneurs. The concepts of entrepreneurship and innovation have long been disregarded in static mainstream economics. Due to the acceptance of complexity and uncertainty, Schumpeter's theory is more difficult to model fo...

Externalities are uncompensated influences that are not expressed in a market but that affect the production possibilities or the welfare level of third parties. An example is the noise pollution in airport areas. Although air transport is an important source of economic growth and employment in many countries, the social and environmental problems...

In this paper an attempt will be made to explore Perroux' concepts of economic space and geonomic space. The existance of interrelationships between these two concepts is often postulated, but has seldom been systematically examined. When economic and physical planners work in collaboration, this lack of theoretical development is a handicap. In st...

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The importance of knowledge - more in particular of its creation and diffusion - for (regional) economic development is widely acknowledged. Knowledge is one of the most important sources of economic development. With an evolutionary perspective, the process of knowledge diffusion can be investigated as an emergent process of the formation of netwo...

This paper proposes a theoretical framework for the analysis of the development of fourth party logistic services. The increasing importance of logistics in general and fourth party logistics in particular is due to competitive strategies of multinational enterprises (MNEs) that operate and sell in global, time-sensitive and service-oriented market...

Complexity in economic geography

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 specialized industrial districts. This network type of coordination has been associated with horizontal, trust–based relations rather than vertical relations of powe...

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 labour. This paper explores the question whether urban regions offer effective contexts for the development of knowledge. Actors and selection environments have an inte...

Compilation of key issues in urban and regional development debates in the early 2000s; focusing on urban economics, local governance, partnerships and urban development, livelihoods, rural-urban linkages and regional development, and urban poverty reduction in the policy arena.

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 Economic Geography. The first issue is the problem of how to specify the (potential) impact of the spatial environment on new variety in terms of technological change. E...

This paper aims to discuss the possibilities of adopting a policy based on collective learning in old industrial regions. This is particularly interesting because old industrial regions are believed to have lost their learning capabilities, as indicated by notions of `technological' and `institutional' lock-in. Moreover, the success stories where p...

Este artículo presenta una valoración del poder explicativo de las teorías neoinstitucionales de la organización y la desorganización económica de las ciudades y plantea alternativas institucionales a estas teorías. En primer lugar se resumen los principales desarrollos recientes en la organización económica de las ciudades, prestando especial aten...

The principal objective of this paper is to formulate some possible links between evolutionary economics and regional policy, a topic that has not (yet) been covered by the literature. We firstly give a brief overview of some issues of regional policy, conceived as a strategy to influence the spatial matrix of economic development. Then, we outline...

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. It is common in economic geography to connect economic performance with agglomeration advantages and a concomitant spatial concentration of the strongest functio...

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 knowledge and possible linkages with the business community. Many universities are engaged in activities aimed at improving the economic development of their respective reg...

In this article a theoretical framework will be presented to aid understanding of the functioning of property markets, more particularly the Dutch property market. It will be argued that traditional urban economic theories are not able to explain the structure and processes of the built environment. In the Dutch case, we are confronted with two pro...

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 unbearable (or should we say intolerable?) burden. An increasing number of persons called upon the state for financial help in that decade. Especially the number of...

Meso-economics can be defined as the intermediary level between macro-economics and micro-economics. The field of mesoeconomics is subdivided into the study of regional economics and that of sectoral developments or the industrial organization. Naturally, this latter subdiscipline is basic to understanding regional economic developments. In many ca...

In this paper we will deal with the application of labour market policies in an urban environment. If the hypothesis of segmentation of labour markets is true, it would affect the outcome of manpower policies. The structure of the unemployed with regard to age, sex and skills is, of course, not the exact replica of the entire labour market, but it...

In this chapter we will be considering two problems. We intend to investigate: 1. the extent to which the various environmental issues are related to the spatial structure; and also 2. the extent to which the problem of the environment can be solved through physical planning (i. e. aiming at a different spatial structure).