Articles, Books Chapters, Policy Reports by Arnoud Lagendijk
Regional Studies celebrates its 50th anniversary with this special issue. This introductory artic... more Regional Studies celebrates its 50th anniversary with this special issue. This introductory article reflects back on developments since the journal was started and offers signposts for urban and regional research looking ahead. It outlines the changing global context for regional studies and identifies some of the ways in which the need for regional research is enhanced by the extraordinary challenges currently confronting the world. It also introduces important themes from the recent history of the journal that are likely to feature in future. This is obviously a highly selective exercise, given the considerable breadth and depth of regional research over the years.
Regional Studies was launched into a very different environment where regions and nations were more self-contained and there was little dispute that space, place and proximity really mattered. There were no personal computers and no containerized transport, let alone the internet and digital devices enabling instantaneous sharing of information around the world. In the global North this was an optimistic era of full employment, rising prosperity, and diminishing social and spatial inequalities. It was also a period of relative political stability and ignorance of global warming, although the Cold War and nuclear threats loomed large, and there was growing unrest in many countries in the global South. In the North, capital and labour markets were closely regulated, and social protection systems were extensive. Regional studies was a new academic field, with very few journals focused on the development of sub-national territories.
Papers by Arnoud Lagendijk
AGORA Magazine, 2014
In de rubriek Klassiekers gaat AGORA in op boeken die niet vers van de pers komen, maar nog steed... more In de rubriek Klassiekers gaat AGORA in op boeken die niet vers van de pers komen, maar nog steeds uiterst relevant zijn. Deze keer 'High-Tech Fantasies: Science Parks in Society, Science and Space' van Massey, Quintas en Wield uit 1992. Vorig jaar liet Alexander Klöpping in het Nederlandse televisieprogramma 'DWDD University' fraaie beelden zien van de campus van Google in het 'mekka van nerds', Silicon Valley. De boodschap was duidelijk. In zulke
Contains fulltext : 45984-1.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access) Contains fulltext : 45... more Contains fulltext : 45984-1.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access) Contains fulltext : 45984.pdf (author's version ) (Open Access)Bespreking van: A. Cumbers,Clusters in Urban and Regional Development London:Routledge ,2006 041536011
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2020
Slow Food is a global, grassroots movement aimed at enhancing and sustaining local food cultures ... more Slow Food is a global, grassroots movement aimed at enhancing and sustaining local food cultures and traditions worldwide. Since its establishment in the 1980s as a local protest movement in Italy, Slow Food evolved into a global movement composed through countless local ‘grassroots’ activities intersecting with more ‘top-down’ umbrella orchestration and framing. This paper explores the many faces of this one-in-many movement by focusing on the circulation and variation of Slow Food ideas and practices across the world. The core argument is that these ideas and practices effectively capture and steer the manifold affective moments emerging from local and network activities. The affective–effective conversions are traced here by applying a semiotic-network approach to a large corpus of Slow Food websites. Thus adopting a novel approach and methodology of tracing the geographical development of a social movement, the paper reveals both grassroots and global patterns of change and diff...
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This paper is concerned to explore the role of concepts in regional development. It attempts to a... more This paper is concerned to explore the role of concepts in regional development. It attempts to apply some of the lessons of recent work in organisational theory and science and technology studies to the field of regional development studies. Specifically, we seek to outline a social constructivist perspective on knowledge in
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Regional Studies, 2016
ABSTRACT ‘The region’ has been used to understand and propose solutions to phenomena and problems... more ABSTRACT ‘The region’ has been used to understand and propose solutions to phenomena and problems outside the dominant spatial scale of the twentieth century – the nation state. Its influence can be seen in multiple social science disciplines and in public policy across the globe. But how was this knowledge organised and how were its concepts transmuted into public policy? This bookcharts the development of the academic field of Regional Studies and the application of its concepts in public policy through its learned society, the Regional Studies Association. In their modern form, learned societies often play a complementary role to universities, offering networks that operate in the spaces between and beyond universities, connecting specialised academics and knowledge and making it possible for them to have impact outside the academy. In contrast to the geographically tangible and popularly understood role of the university, contemporary learned societies are nebulous networks that transcend barriers and whose contribution is difficult to discern. However, the production and dissemination of knowledge would be stunted were it not for the learned society connecting scholars through a network of publications and events. This book traces the intellectual history of regional studies and regional science from the 1960s into the 2000s and the impact of the regional concept in public policy through the changing priorities of government in the UK and Europe. By approaching the history through the Regional Studies Association, it interrogates the role and function of the ‘learned society’ model of organisation in contemporary academia and importance as a knowledge exchange vehicle for public policy influence.
The Innovation Union in Europe
Policy initiatives such as regional innovation strategies are strategically and selectively infus... more Policy initiatives such as regional innovation strategies are strategically and selectively infused by rationales and imaginaries that resonate with major political and societal shifts. A core example is how the transition from spatial Keynesianism to neoliberal thinking has been accompanied by a discourse of the ‘knowledge-based economy’, overpowering the more socially oriented notion of the ‘information society’. Using the notion of policy assemblage, this chapter advocates a more complex and political reading of the role of rationales and imaginaries. Undertaking an analysis of four decades of regional innovation policy in Europe, we show how a variety of concerns, notably around competitiveness, sustainability and cohesion, have all made their inroads into the substantiation and legitimization of innovation policies. In doing so, we pay attention to the way innovation policies have been shaped by the continuous (re)imagination of European, national and regional spaces in terms of developmental ambitions. The last four decades have witnessed the rise, peak and modification of regional innovation policy. This is especially noteworthy in Europe, where the EU has taken a leading role in the development and proliferation of innovation-oriented policy ideas and practices. The evolution of EU regional innovation policy has been marked by a number of major trends and shifts. Underlying development perspectives have moved from Keynesian to neoliberal approaches; policy perspectives took on board academic notions of learning and the building of institutional capacity; in terms of governance, a direct nexus was created between the EU and the regional level.
Handbook of Regional Innovation and Growth
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Geografiska Annaler Series B-human Geography - GEOGR ANN SER B-HUMAN GEOGR, 2003
W ebsite: http://nethur.geog.uu.nl Bij NETHUR is tevens meer inform atie verkrijgbaar over de D G... more W ebsite: http://nethur.geog.uu.nl Bij NETHUR is tevens meer inform atie verkrijgbaar over de D G W /N E T H U R partnership en z ijn andere publicaties uit de reeks te bestellen. ó * De omschrijving van de werkzaamheden van de respondenten verwijst naar de functie zoals die ten tijde van het interview uitgeoefend werd. Intussen zijn sommige respondenten van baan gewisseld.
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 1995
The authors investigate the spatial evolution of automobile production in Spain in the postwar pe... more The authors investigate the spatial evolution of automobile production in Spain in the postwar period, in relation to a typology of changing regional specialization. The article describes how successive lotuuLF ofirtm&wmh have transformed the traditional pattern of specialization into a configuration determined by the production and network strategies of foreign investors. The spatial outcome of this process may be attributed, to some extent, to specific locational strategies pursued by the foreign investors: there is also a high incidence, however, of de f & spatial changes, resulting from foreign acquisitions of local f-. As a result, internationalization has made the local production structure more aligned with, but also highly dependent on, the economic core areas of Europe.
Ruimte & Maatschappij, 2012
De afgelopen decennia zijn verschillende ruimtelijk-economische concepten ontwikkeld en uitgeprob... more De afgelopen decennia zijn verschillende ruimtelijk-economische concepten ontwikkeld en uitgeprobeerd om de Nederlandse regio's aantrekkelijker en voortvarender te maken. Voorname voorbeelden zijn clusters, lerende regio's, innovatieve milieus, regionale innovatienetwerken, valley's en campussen. Dit artikel gaat in op de recente trend van campusontwikkeling in Nederland, waarbij we een kader presenteren voor de analyse tussen campusconcepten en de Nederlandse praktijk. We doen dit aan de hand van een open benadering die de laatste tijd veel aandacht heeft gekregen: de assemblagetheorie. Vervolgens diepen we een specifieke casus van campusontwikkeling uit, namelijk de 'Novio Tech Campus' in Nijmegen. We beschrijven en verklaren de ontwikkeling van deze casus vanuit het perspectief van de assemblagetheorie. In de literatuur worden campusontwikkelingen afgeserveerd als 'slechts retoriek' of 'de volgende hype'. We concluderen daarentegen dat het gebruik van deze assemblagetheorie handvatten biedt om deze ontwikkeling genuanceerd in beeld te brengen.
Boosting innovation. The cluster approach, 1997
Please be advised that this information was generated on 2017-12-06 and may be subject to change.... more Please be advised that this information was generated on 2017-12-06 and may be subject to change. CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Radboud Repository "Clustering as a new growth strategy for regional economies? A discussion of new forms of regional industrial policy in the UK." Final version published in: Cluster-analysis and cluster-based policy. New perspectives and rationale in innovation policy-making. Paris: OECD (Chapter 5) Arnoud Lagendijk and David Charles, CURDS, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK From innovation systems to clustering: the development context for peripheral regions Conceptual Issues Recent thinking and research on innovation has provided an important contribution to the understanding of the economic success of particular territories, such as nations or
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Articles, Books Chapters, Policy Reports by Arnoud Lagendijk
Regional Studies was launched into a very different environment where regions and nations were more self-contained and there was little dispute that space, place and proximity really mattered. There were no personal computers and no containerized transport, let alone the internet and digital devices enabling instantaneous sharing of information around the world. In the global North this was an optimistic era of full employment, rising prosperity, and diminishing social and spatial inequalities. It was also a period of relative political stability and ignorance of global warming, although the Cold War and nuclear threats loomed large, and there was growing unrest in many countries in the global South. In the North, capital and labour markets were closely regulated, and social protection systems were extensive. Regional studies was a new academic field, with very few journals focused on the development of sub-national territories.
Papers by Arnoud Lagendijk
Regional Studies was launched into a very different environment where regions and nations were more self-contained and there was little dispute that space, place and proximity really mattered. There were no personal computers and no containerized transport, let alone the internet and digital devices enabling instantaneous sharing of information around the world. In the global North this was an optimistic era of full employment, rising prosperity, and diminishing social and spatial inequalities. It was also a period of relative political stability and ignorance of global warming, although the Cold War and nuclear threats loomed large, and there was growing unrest in many countries in the global South. In the North, capital and labour markets were closely regulated, and social protection systems were extensive. Regional studies was a new academic field, with very few journals focused on the development of sub-national territories.