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Bioeconomy innovation within traditional value chains: The example of the sugar industry in three European regions 传统价值链中的生物经济创新：以欧洲三个地区的制糖业为例

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 从浪费到价值？工业副产品使用的地理价值和重要性

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 弥合方法论鸿沟：来自语义网络分析对（进化）经济地理学的启示

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 云国家和出口地理

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

Jeremy W. Crampton

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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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