L2 reading

Question 1

Key readings

Answer 1

Coe et al, 2004 and Storper and Walker, 1989

Question 2

Regional development

Answer 2

Coe et al, 2004
- definition
interactive effects are key contributors to reg dev
- needs existence of economies of scale/scopr, possibility of localisation economies within GPNs

Question 3

Economies of scale/scope

Answer 3

Storper, 1997

• scale = knowledge concentrated
• scope = regions reap intangible benefits of learning (‘spill over effects’

Question 4

Value creation, enhancement and capture

Answer 4

Kapinsky, 1998

• value = economic rent (can be tech, relational, etc)
• the more a region is articulated into GPNs = more EoS benefit but less control of firm

Question 5

Leapfrogging

Answer 5

Storper and Walker, 1989
- spatial correlate of capitalism’s dynamic capacity to affect the radical reallocation of social resources into fast-growing, high profit industry sectors

Question 6

Workplace as a geog cluster

Answer 6

Marx, 1867
- increasing productivity of labour = increasing intense work, div of labour, increasing cooperation, increasing tools/tech/machinery

Question 7

Why deindustrialisation

Answer 7

mainly due to increasing ability to move capital (Bluestone and Harrison, 1982)