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A role for economic geographers in the entrepreneurial ecosystem framework: Global pipelines and the mobility challenge

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100037

Jan Jacob Vogelaar , Shiri Breznitz

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From bytes to bricks: Advocating for a turn toward platform-led infrastructuralization in economic geography

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100038

Sina Hardaker

{"title":"From bytes to bricks: Advocating for a turn toward platform-led infrastructuralization in economic geography","authors":"Sina Hardaker","doi":"10.1016/j.peg.2025.100038","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.peg.2025.100038","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While it is widely accepted that digital platforms rely on and reorganize existing (physical) infrastructure, most research assumes that these platforms operate with minimal physical assets. This paper discusses the phenomenon of <em>platform-led infrastructuralization</em>. The core argument is that <em>platform-led infrastructuralization</em> occurs when digital platforms actively engage in designing, funding, and operating the physical infrastructures necessary not only for their own functioning but also for the broader economy. This involvement enables platforms to expand and consolidate their technological ecosystems and market reach. Using the e-commerce and logistics sector as a case study, the paper illustrates how platforms strategically shape physical landscapes to further their interests and become critical chokepoints – online and offline. While these investments in the built environment consolidate corporate power and control over goods, services, and data flows, they also create vulnerabilities. The paper redefines the concepts of infrastructure and digital platforms, challenging the conventional view of platforms as primarily virtual entities by emphasizing their role in (actively) shaping the material world. In doing so, the paper calls for a more comprehensive inclusion of platforms’ entanglement with the built environment in platform research—a focus that economic geography is particularly well-equipped to address. The paper concludes by proposing new research directions for the future.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101047,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Economic Geography","volume":"3 1","pages":"Article 100038"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143577418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Assetizing the video game: Play-to-earn (P2E) games and blockchain rentiership

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2025-01-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100036

Gordon Kuo Siong TAN

{"title":"Assetizing the video game: Play-to-earn (P2E) games and blockchain rentiership","authors":"Gordon Kuo Siong TAN","doi":"10.1016/j.peg.2025.100036","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.peg.2025.100036","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rentiership has recently involved the growing use of novel technological mechanisms to facilitate rent capture and extraction. This trend is reflected in a slew of \"play-toearn\" (P2E) video games. P2E users can earn money by playing blockchain-based video games and accumulating cryptocurrency tokens and other virtual in-game assets, which are represented as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This paper argues that P2E gaming represents a new form of techno-economic rentiership that blurs the boundaries between work and play. Using the P2E game Axie Infinity as a case study, this paper explores how economic rents are being made in a digital environment and examines the role of labor in driving rentiership dynamics. Blockchain serves as a tool for generating rents by facilitating the decentralized production of a plethora of digital assets by individual users, where property and ownership rights of these assets are algorithmically governed. P2E labor is organized under manager-scholar programs and gaming guilds that allow asset owners to receive a cut of players’ earnings in exchange for lending game assets. These labor arrangements promote community in the assetization process. Such a rentiership system is inherently unstable, relying on a highly financialized business model that needs to keep attracting financially motivated players who sustain asset values through their gameplay.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101047,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Economic Geography","volume":"3 1","pages":"Article 100036"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143176259","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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Bioeconomy innovation within traditional value chains: The example of the sugar industry in three European regions

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100035

Max Mittenzwei , Daniel Schiller

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From waste to value? Valuation and materiality in geographies of industrial by-product use

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100034

Marius Angstmann

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Bridging the methodological divide: Inspirations from semantic network analysis for (evolutionary) economic geography

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100033

Bernhard Truffer , Christian Binz , Johan Miörner , Xiao-Shan Yap

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Cloud countries and exit geographies

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2024-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100031

Jeremy W. Crampton

{"title":"Cloud countries and exit geographies","authors":"Jeremy W. Crampton","doi":"10.1016/j.peg.2024.100031","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.peg.2024.100031","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years, digital technology companies and Silicon Valley technologists have pursued virtual “start-ups” or “cloud countries.” For their promoters, these new digital realms are designed to provide an offramp, known as an exit, from mainstream forms of governance, democracy, and finance. These territories will be located online or within the blockchain. In this paper I first examine the politics of this development by placing it into the larger context of alt-right and neoreactionary (NRx) thinking. In the second part, I examine the specific digital geographies of one set of projects known as “network states,” a project of the tech entrepreneur and Bitcoin maximalist, Balaji Srinivasan. For this I draw on work that situates how digital geographies of exit “render” value for the “growth machine” under conditions of rentier capitalism. Taken together, it is now clear that tech entrepreneurs are no longer content to use digital exit geographies just to provide economic returns, but to acquire political power and influence. In the Conclusion, I discuss how analysis of exit geographies can contribute to how digital political economies improve theorizations of exit, and highlight how network states depend on a growth machine model.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101047,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Economic Geography","volume":"3 1","pages":"Article 100031"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143173972","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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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

{"title":"Growing pains in upscaling: A constructive technology assessment of sea lice treatment innovations in the stagnating Norwegian aquaculture regime","authors":"Casper Friederich, Matthijs Mouthaan, Koen Frenken","doi":"10.1016/j.peg.2024.100030","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.peg.2024.100030","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Innovations that scale up, often have unintended, adverse effects. Dealing with adverse effects is especially challenging in bioeconomy transitions, in which the large-scale deployment of innovations may generate severe environmental damages. This study looks at the case of Norwegian aquaculture which has been embraced as a model to revitalize rural livelihoods and foster regional development in coastal areas, but currently faces stagnation. The main cause for the industry’s stagnating development is a parasitic sea lice, which treatments have adverse effects on ecology and fish welfare. We perform a Constructive Technology Assessment (CTA) involving diverse stakeholders in a Multi-Criteria Mapping (MCM) exercise on the viability, opportunities, and risks of different treatment options to cope with sea lice in Norwegian aquaculture. We find that this method is well-suited to identify diverse anticipatory views on possible solutions to the sea lice problem, allowing decision-makers to identify more democratic, holistic, and sustainable pathways to upscale the bioeconomy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101047,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Economic Geography","volume":"3 1","pages":"Article 100030"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142702760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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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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