Ron Martin
University of Cambridge, Department of Geography, Faculty Member
- Professor of Economic Geography, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, with research interests in regional development, ... moreProfessor of Economic Geography, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, with research interests in regional development, regional economic theory, evolutionary economic geography, the geographies of money, and spatial economic policy. Fellow of the British Academy, holder of the Royal Geographical Society's Victoria Medal, and President of the Regional Studies Association.edit
... RON MARTIN*, MIA GRAY*, PETER TYLER, JOHN MCCOMBIE, BERNARD FINGLETON, MICHAEL KITSON, BJØRN ASHEIM§ and AMY GLASMEIER¶ *Department of Geography, Department of Land Economy and Judge Business School ... Its central aim was to... more
... RON MARTIN*, MIA GRAY*, PETER TYLER, JOHN MCCOMBIE, BERNARD FINGLETON, MICHAEL KITSON, BJØRN ASHEIM§ and AMY GLASMEIER¶ *Department of Geography, Department of Land Economy and Judge Business School ... Its central aim was to build ...
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... UK and Germany Compared Professor Ron Martin*, Dr Christian Berndt**, Dr Britta Klagge***,Professor Peter J. Sunley, ... Professor Rolf Sternberg (Research Advisor) ... Special thanks are due to Ray Cunningham and Ann Pfeiffer at... more
... UK and Germany Compared Professor Ron Martin*, Dr Christian Berndt**, Dr Britta Klagge***,Professor Peter J. Sunley, ... Professor Rolf Sternberg (Research Advisor) ... Special thanks are due to Ray Cunningham and Ann Pfeiffer at the AGF for their advice and guidance. ...
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ABSTRACT Over the past few years a new buzzword has entered academic, political and public discourse: the notion of resilience, a term invoked to describe how an entity or system responds to shocks and disturbances. Although the concept... more
ABSTRACT Over the past few years a new buzzword has entered academic, political and public discourse: the notion of resilience, a term invoked to describe how an entity or system responds to shocks and disturbances. Although the concept has been used for some time in ecology and psychology, it is now invoked in diverse contexts, both as a perceived (and typically positive) attribute of an object, entity or system and, more normatively, as a desired feature that should somehow be promoted or fostered. As part of this development, the notion of resilience is rapidly becoming part of the conceptual and analytical lexicon of regional and local economic studies: there is increasing interest in the resilience of regional, local and urban economies. Further, resilience is rapidly emerging as an idea 'whose time has come' in policy debates: a new imperative of 'constructing' or 'building' regional and urban economic resilience is gaining currency. However, this rush to use the idea of regional and local economic resilience in policy circles has arguably run somewhat ahead of our understanding of the concept. There is still considerable ambiguity about what, precisely, is meant by the notion of regional economic resilience, about how it should be conceptualized and measured, what its determinants are, and how it links to patterns of long-run regional growth. The aim of this article is to address these and related questions on the meaning and explanation of regional economic resilience and thereby to outline the directions of a research agenda.
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Martin R. and Tyler P. (2006) Evaluating the impact of the Structural Funds on Objective 1 regions: an exploratory discussion, Regional Studies40, 201–210. Evaluation evidence on the impact of the Structural Funds on employment in... more
Martin R. and Tyler P. (2006) Evaluating the impact of the Structural Funds on Objective 1 regions: an exploratory discussion, Regional Studies40, 201–210. Evaluation evidence on the impact of the Structural Funds on employment in Objective 1 regions remains elusive. This paper seeks to make a contribution to this task by evaluating the impact of European Union regional policy on
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Martin RL (1984) Redundancies, labour turnover and employment contraction in the recession: a regional analysis, Reg. Studies 18, 445-458. The rapid decline of the British economy during the current recession has generated considerable... more
Martin RL (1984) Redundancies, labour turnover and employment contraction in the recession: a regional analysis, Reg. Studies 18, 445-458. The rapid decline of the British economy during the current recession has generated considerable interest in the geography of ...
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Industrial change is a two-sided process: it both creates new plants, production methods and jobs and displaces others at present in operation. But the two sides of this process rarely coincide in time or space, and in Britain over the... more
Industrial change is a two-sided process: it both creates new plants, production methods and jobs and displaces others at present in operation. But the two sides of this process rarely coincide in time or space, and in Britain over the past fifteen years or so the develop-ment path of ...
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This chapter contains section titled: Local Flexibility and the New Deal for Young PeoplePartnership-Building and Co-ordinationPolicy Learning and AdaptationInnovation and ExperimentationResource TargetingWork-First... more
This chapter contains section titled: Local Flexibility and the New Deal for Young PeoplePartnership-Building and Co-ordinationPolicy Learning and AdaptationInnovation and ExperimentationResource TargetingWork-First Flexibility?ConclusionsLocal Flexibility and the New Deal for Young PeoplePartnership-Building and Co-ordinationPolicy Learning and AdaptationInnovation and ExperimentationResource TargetingWork-First Flexibility?Conclusions
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1. The Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography was established to honor the late Professor Howard G. Roepke, who served on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 19521985. The original lecture series ran at the... more
1. The Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography was established to honor the late Professor Howard G. Roepke, who served on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 19521985. The original lecture series ran at the annual meetings of the ...
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Abstract Economic geographers and regional economists have long been concerned with the problems provoked by uneven regional development and the ways by which policy intervention may be able to reduce such inequalities. However, in recent... more
Abstract Economic geographers and regional economists have long been concerned with the problems provoked by uneven regional development and the ways by which policy intervention may be able to reduce such inequalities. However, in recent years the ...
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... the pervasiveness and im-portance of social institutions in economic life (for example ... are regarded as particularly significant elements of the institutional regulatory framework of ... and consortia, research bodies, mar-keting... more
... the pervasiveness and im-portance of social institutions in economic life (for example ... are regarded as particularly significant elements of the institutional regulatory framework of ... and consortia, research bodies, mar-keting agencies, employment and training agencies, and so on ...
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ABSTRACT Over the past few years a new buzzword has entered academic, political and public discourse: the notion of resilience, a term invoked to describe how an entity or system responds to shocks and disturbances. Although the concept... more
ABSTRACT Over the past few years a new buzzword has entered academic, political and public discourse: the notion of resilience, a term invoked to describe how an entity or system responds to shocks and disturbances. Although the concept has been used for some time in ecology and psychology, it is now invoked in diverse contexts, both as a perceived (and typically positive) attribute of an object, entity or system and, more normatively, as a desired feature that should somehow be promoted or fostered. As part of this development, the notion of resilience is rapidly becoming part of the conceptual and analytical lexicon of regional and local economic studies: there is increasing interest in the resilience of regional, local and urban economies. Further, resilience is rapidly emerging as an idea 'whose time has come' in policy debates: a new imperative of 'constructing' or 'building' regional and urban economic resilience is gaining currency. However, this rush to use the idea of regional and local economic resilience in policy circles has arguably run somewhat ahead of our understanding of the concept. There is still considerable ambiguity about what, precisely, is meant by the notion of regional economic resilience, about how it should be conceptualized and measured, what its determinants are, and how it links to patterns of long-run regional growth. The aim of this article is to address these and related questions on the meaning and explanation of regional economic resilience and thereby to outline the directions of a research agenda.
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In this paper, we review the different definitions of resilience and their potential application in explaining the long-term development of urban and regional economies. We reject equilibrist versions of resilience and argue instead that... more
In this paper, we review the different definitions of resilience and their potential application in explaining the long-term development of urban and regional economies. We reject equilibrist versions of resilience and argue instead that we should seek an understanding of the concept from an evolutionary perspective. After discussing a number of such perspectives, we focus on the adaptive cycle model
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... into a new 'firm culture', thereby making the firm the centre of the whole system. A second factor alleged to be driving decentraliza-tion is the process of economic de-regulation that Western... more
... into a new 'firm culture', thereby making the firm the centre of the whole system. A second factor alleged to be driving decentraliza-tion is the process of economic de-regulation that Western governments have pursued since the late 1970s. ...
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... Massey's (and Urry's) empha-sis on the importance of place and local processes in understanding social change. We do indeed agree on this point, and are currently researching such locally-specific industrial... more
... Massey's (and Urry's) empha-sis on the importance of place and local processes in understanding social change. We do indeed agree on this point, and are currently researching such locally-specific industrial relations practices within the British engineering industry (Martin et ...
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According to the UK Commission on Social Sciences (2003),'globalization'has become one of the 'big issues' of our times. It is difficult to believe that barely two decades ago the term was virtually... more
According to the UK Commission on Social Sciences (2003),'globalization'has become one of the 'big issues' of our times. It is difficult to believe that barely two decades ago the term was virtually unknown. One of the first authors to take up the concept was Anthony ...
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... In contrast, the major concentrations of poverty are to be found in the centres of northern cities such as Liverpool, Bradford, Blackburn, and Middlesborough, as well as parts of Birmingham and Belfast: in these areas 60 per cent or... more
... In contrast, the major concentrations of poverty are to be found in the centres of northern cities such as Liverpool, Bradford, Blackburn, and Middlesborough, as well as parts of Birmingham and Belfast: in these areas 60 per cent or more of resident households have incomes of ...
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... is anything deprived about, say, Chester, and if you go a few miles from Whitehall there are ... and the Midlands] and Outer Britain [the 'north' and Scotland] dated only from the First ... Immediately following the First... more
... is anything deprived about, say, Chester, and if you go a few miles from Whitehall there are ... and the Midlands] and Outer Britain [the 'north' and Scotland] dated only from the First ... Immediately following the First World War, however, adverse shifts in Britain's world trade position ...
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... and co-trending vectors of the form (1, −1), is applied to a group of pre-selected countries. Subsequently, this form of test and null hypothesis is not useful if the analyst is seeking to determine both ... Since we do not reject the... more
... and co-trending vectors of the form (1, −1), is applied to a group of pre-selected countries. Subsequently, this form of test and null hypothesis is not useful if the analyst is seeking to determine both ... Since we do not reject the null of level stationarity for p ij > p min , where p min ...
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Recent years have seen a surge of academic and policy attention devoted to the notion of 'competitiveness': the new conventional wisdom is that nations, regions and cities have no option but to strive to be competitive... more
Recent years have seen a surge of academic and policy attention devoted to the notion of 'competitiveness': the new conventional wisdom is that nations, regions and cities have no option but to strive to be competitive in order to survive in the new marketplace being ...
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... THIS ReI, rv to the comments by Johnston, and by Curry, Grittith and Sheppard (hereafter referred to as CGS) is structured as follows. ... Johnston's comment that "while this conclusion (that... more
... THIS ReI, rv to the comments by Johnston, and by Curry, Grittith and Sheppard (hereafter referred to as CGS) is structured as follows. ... Johnston's comment that "while this conclusion (that of Cliff, Martin and Ord, 1974, hereafter referred to as CMO) may be rele-vant to the point ...
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ABSTRACT Martin R. and Sunley P. Towards a developmental turn in evolutionary economic geography?, Regional Studies. Over the past couple of decades or so there have been increasing moves within evolutionary theory to move beyond the... more
ABSTRACT Martin R. and Sunley P. Towards a developmental turn in evolutionary economic geography?, Regional Studies. Over the past couple of decades or so there have been increasing moves within evolutionary theory to move beyond the neo-Darwinian principles of variety, selection and retention, and to incorporate development. This has led to a richer palette of concepts, mechanisms and models of evolution and change, such as plasticity, robustness, evolvability, emergence, niche construction and self-organization, This opens up a different framework for understanding evolution. This paper sets out the main characteristics of the recent and ongoing ‘developmental turn’ in evolutionary theory and suggests how these might inform a corresponding ‘developmental turn’ in evolutionary economic geography.
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The period since 1979 has been a critical one in the history of British regional policy. Since the Conservatives were returned to office in 1979, the old postwar traditional regional policy package has been substantially revised and... more
The period since 1979 has been a critical one in the history of British regional policy. Since the Conservatives were returned to office in 1979, the old postwar traditional regional policy package has been substantially revised and rationalized. Industrial development ...
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MARTIN R. and TYLER P. (2006) Evaluating the impact of the Structural Funds on Objective 1 regions: an exploratory discussion, Regional Studies 40, 201210. Evaluation evidence on the impact of the Structural Funds on employment in... more
MARTIN R. and TYLER P. (2006) Evaluating the impact of the Structural Funds on Objective 1 regions: an exploratory discussion, Regional Studies 40, 201210. Evaluation evidence on the impact of the Structural Funds on employment in Objective 1 regions remains elusive. ...
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Martin RL (1989) The growth and geographical anatomy of venture capitalism in the United Kingdom, Reg. Studies 23, 389403. The 1980s have seen the emergence and rapid growth of venture capitalism in the UK. This paper examines this... more
Martin RL (1989) The growth and geographical anatomy of venture capitalism in the United Kingdom, Reg. Studies 23, 389403. The 1980s have seen the emergence and rapid growth of venture capitalism in the UK. This paper examines this growth, both in terms of ...
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MARTIN R.(1997) Regional unemployment disparities and their dynamics, Reg. Studies 31, 237-252. Unemployment in the United Kingdom has doubled every decade since the 1960s. Regional unemployment trends during this period are shown to have... more
MARTIN R.(1997) Regional unemployment disparities and their dynamics, Reg. Studies 31, 237-252. Unemployment in the United Kingdom has doubled every decade since the 1960s. Regional unemployment trends during this period are shown to have been characterized ...
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CLIFF A. D., HAGGETT P. and MARTIN R. L. (1997) Michael Chisholm: an appreciation, Reg. Studies 31, 205‐210. Over the past 40 years, Michael Chisholm has made flundamental contributions both to economic geography and to its applications... more
CLIFF A. D., HAGGETT P. and MARTIN R. L. (1997) Michael Chisholm: an appreciation, Reg. Studies 31, 205‐210. Over the past 40 years, Michael Chisholm has made flundamental contributions both to economic geography and to its applications in government. This paper reviews the major areas of his research (land rent and agricultural economics; development studies; regional growth studies; and the
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... Email: christian.berndt@ku-eichstaett.de §Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK. Email: rlm1@cam.ac.uk ... firm creation in peripheral economic regions are attri-buted, at least in part, to a lack of... more
... Email: christian.berndt@ku-eichstaett.de §Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK. Email: rlm1@cam.ac.uk ... firm creation in peripheral economic regions are attri-buted, at least in part, to a lack of readily available risk ...
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... MARTIN R. and TYLER P. (2000) Regional employment evolutions in the European Union: a preliminary analysis, Reg. ... there has been considerable interest by academics and policy makers in comparing the employment performance of the... more
... MARTIN R. and TYLER P. (2000) Regional employment evolutions in the European Union: a preliminary analysis, Reg. ... there has been considerable interest by academics and policy makers in comparing the employment performance of the European Union with that of the US. ...
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... used by governments or other policy bodies to advise in the policy-making process ... Instead, the liturgical recitation of 'great thinkers' in social and cultural philosophy and the ... geography, but reflects a malaise... more
... used by governments or other policy bodies to advise in the policy-making process ... Instead, the liturgical recitation of 'great thinkers' in social and cultural philosophy and the ... geography, but reflects a malaise that typifies much of cultural studies and social science more generally ...