It has been argued that internal and external contextualizations are important aspects of research intended to be relevant, valuable, and engaged in societal progress. In this article, we advocate for scholarship focus on the city and the region as a means to achieve this goal. The notion of...

This working paper offers a synthesis of the current knowledge on the determinants of productivity. It carefully reviews both “spatial” (e.g. agglomerations, infrastructure, geography) and “aspatial” (e.g. human capital, labour regulations, industry-level innovation and dynamism)...