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This article discusses the possible effects of devolution on foreign direct investments in North East England and Wales. The authors suggest that regional actors play a role in supporting globalization, while the processes is also produced from above.

The author uses a neo-Foucauldian approach to analyze the shift in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s from local government to local governance. Topics include the influence of neo-liberal state projects on local-central relations, and local economic governance in the Scottish Highlands.

In the context of recent articulations of a distinctive 'evolutionary economic geography' (EEG) (Boschma and Frenken 2009; Journal of Economic Geography 2007), our article sought to reassert broader conceptions of [...]

Economic geography has, over the past 15 or so years, drawn upon ideas from evolutionary economics in trying to understand processes of economic growth and change, with the concept of [...]

Learning from Clusters: A Critical Assessment from an Economic-Geographical Perspective. Edited by Ron A. Boschma and Robert C. Kloosterman. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer, 2005. Clusters have become a major focus [...]

The relationships between the new governance agencies and rural communities in the Scottish Highlands are discussed. It is argued that local state agencies must be analysed with wider circuits of power and also agencies and community groups should retain some capacity to influence processes of rural governance.