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Cryptocurrencies, a controversial innovation? Unpacking argumentation analysis in economic geography 加密货币，有争议的创新？解读经济地理学中的论证分析

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2024-11-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100032

Yannick Eckhardt, Johannes Glückler

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Growing pains in upscaling: A constructive technology assessment of sea lice treatment innovations in the stagnating Norwegian aquaculture regime 升级中的成长之痛：在停滞不前的挪威水产养殖制度中对海虱治疗创新进行建设性技术评估

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100030

Casper Friederich, Matthijs Mouthaan, Koen Frenken

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“If the news is fake, imagine history”: The network state and the second bourgeois revolution "如果新闻是假的，请想象一下历史：网络国家与第二次资产阶级革命

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100029

Joel Z. Garrod

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Plotting cryptoeconomic imaginaries and counterplotting the network state 绘制加密经济想象图，反绘制网络状态图

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100028

Jillian (Lee) Crandall

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A stack made in heaven? Exploring AI-blockchain intersections and their implications for labour and value 天作之合？探索人工智能与区块链的交叉及其对劳动力和价值的影响

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100026

Ludovico Rella , Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn

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Green upscaling of an established path? The case of salmon farming in Norway 既定道路的绿色升级？挪威的鲑鱼养殖案例

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100027

Markus Steen

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Legitimation strategies in emerging ecosystems: The case of advanced air mobility in Hamburg 新兴生态系统中的合法化战略：汉堡先进的空中交通案例

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100025

Tim Fraske , Filipe Mello Rose , Niloufar Vadiati

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What hinders the transition towards a bio-based construction sector? A global innovation system perspective on its value chain 是什么阻碍了向生物基建筑部门的转型？从全球创新体系角度看其价值链

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100023

Francesca Mazzoni , Sebastian Losacker

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Towards a geographical political economy understanding of platformization 从地理政治经济学角度理解平台化

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100024

Yannick Ecker , Max Münßinger

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Let's innovate! but for what value(s)? Towards an economic geography of valuation in markets and society 让我们创新吧！但创新的价值何在？构建市场和社会价值的经济地理学

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2024-09-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100022

Hugues Jeannerat

{"title":"Let's innovate! but for what value(s)? Towards an economic geography of valuation in markets and society","authors":"Hugues Jeannerat","doi":"10.1016/j.peg.2024.100022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.peg.2024.100022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In an endeavor to comprehend the socio-economic origins of the value added created within and between territories, economic geography has tended to overlook how value is itself socio-economically constructed in space. I claim, in line with economic sociology and pragmatist market theories, that the socio-economic construction of value should be at the core of our contemporary understanding of innovation to address not merely the economic issues of globalization, but also the grand societal challenges we face today. Value creation should not be regarded as a consequential output of production and innovation organized across space, but as an ongoing process of social, economic and technical co-construction that is contingent on both time and space. This is not to say that one should abandon research on innovation in economic geography, but rather that it should be approached as a question of <em>valuation</em>. In this approach, value creation is not the consequence of innovation, but the process and the result of socially undertaken changes that are co-existential with innovation around two interdependent issues: innovation as relational and transactional valuation in markets and as institutional and political valuation in society. This research should also be future-oriented and should reposition materiality at its center.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101047,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Economic Geography","volume":"2 2","pages":"Article 100022"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142423447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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