Emerging industries: institutions, legitimacy and system-level agency
这篇导言梳理了经济地理学中研究新兴产业的不同视角，指出制度结构对产业兴起的影响尚未被充分概念化，并基于制度方法提出了分析制度动态的启发式框架，为后续研究指明方向。
Economic geographers have studied emerging industries in regions from various perspectives, such as life cycle, evolutionary economic geography and systemic approaches. However, so far they have insufficiently conceptualized the effects of institutional structures on new industry emergence. This special issue on ‘Emerging Industries: Institutions, Legitimacy and System Building’ therefore shows recent work that seeks to advance the analysis of emerging industries by drawing on institutional approaches. The present introductory article identifies key characteristics of ‘emerging industries’, establishes a heuristic for the conceptualization of the institutional dynamics in emerging industries, applies it to the special issue papers and outlines a future research agenda.