Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation
批判了将边缘视为落后和非创新的传统观点，提出将边缘重新定义为场域中相对于核心的遥远、分散和脱节的位置，并构建了一个结合地理与网络维度的双核心-边缘框架，用于实证研究边缘在创新过程中的角色。
Abstract The continued emphasis on innovation in urban and clustered settings has led many geographers to conceive peripheries as laggard and non-innovative. After reconstructing discussions of the periphery in the context of the geography of firm-level innovation, we argue that normative connotations should be stripped away, and that ‘periphery’ and ‘center’ are better understood as positions in a field. We draw upon concepts current in network theory and propose a relational definition of periphery as a distant, dispersed and disconnected position relative to a core within a field. A key distinction is made between the position of an actor in geographical space (location) and the position of an actor in a social network of relations. Combining geographic and network dimensions of an actor’s position, our aim in this article is to propose a dual core-periphery framework which provides the vocabulary and concepts to empirically scrutinize the role of periphery in innovation processes. Although we focus on the geography of innovation, this framework can be applied more broadly to discussions of peripherality.