The emerging empirics of evolutionary economic geography
综述了演化经济地理学近十年的实证进展，探讨了路径依赖的集群、认知邻近性与相关多样性对集聚外部性的贡献，以及制度的作用，并提出了新的研究挑战。
Following last decade’s programmatic papers on Evolutionary Economic Geography, we \nreport on recent empirical advances and how this empirical work can be positioned \nvis-a`-vis other strands of research in economic geography. First, we review studies on \nthe path dependent nature of clustering, and how the evolutionary perspective relates \nto that of New Economic Geography. Second, we discuss research on agglomeration \nexternalities in Regional Science, and how Evolutionary Economic Geography \ncontributed to this literature with the concepts of cognitive proximity and related \nvariety. Third, we go into the role of institutions in Evolutionary Economic Geography, \nand we relate this to the way Institutional Economic Geography tends to view \ninstitutions. From this discussion, a number of new research challenges are derived.