Costs, incentives, and institutions in bridging evolutionary economic geography and global production networks
回应了Yeung关于连接演化经济地理学与全球生产网络的提议，指出仅靠战略耦合不够，还需考虑参与网络的成本、激励差异以及城市和区域吸收创新扩散的能力。
Two of the most influential strands in economic geography and regional studies – evolutionary economic geography and global production networks – have run on parallel tracks with limited cross-fertilization. The Regional Studies Annual Lecture 2020 paper by Henry Yeung proposes building bridges across both strands to improve our understanding of the uneven distribution and evolution of economic activity across the world. He puts forward the concept of strategic coupling as the foundation of such bridges. In this reply I argue that strategic coupling will not suffice, unless the variations in costs and incentives for engaging in networks and the different capacity of cities and regions to assimilate the benefits of innovation diffusion through networks are taken into consideration.