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From bytes to bricks: Advocating for a turn toward platform-led infrastructuralization in economic geography 从字节到砖块：倡导在经济地理学中转向以平台为主导的基础设施

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100038

Sina Hardaker

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Bioeconomy innovations and their regional embeddedness: Results from a qualitative multiple-case study on German flagship innovations 生物经济创新及其区域嵌入性：来自德国旗舰创新定性多案例研究的结果

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100044

Michael P. Schlaile , Jonathan Friedrich , Luise Porst , Jana Zscheischler

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Assetizing the video game: Play-to-earn (P2E) games and blockchain rentiership 评估电子游戏：P2E游戏和区块链收益

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100036

Gordon Kuo Siong TAN

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From average to extremes: Application of archetypal analysis in economic geography 从平均到极端：原型分析在经济地理学中的应用

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100042

Milad Abbasiharofteh

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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 : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100034

Marius Angstmann

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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 : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100025

Tim Fraske , Filipe Mello Rose , Niloufar Vadiati

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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 : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100027

Markus Steen

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Detecting geographical patterns in the EU’s interregional flows: A multilayer hierarchical approach 检测欧盟地区间流动的地理模式：多层分级方法

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100017

Dimitrios Tsiotas , Vassilis Tselios

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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 : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100026

Ludovico Rella , Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn

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Economic geography and planetary boundaries: Embracing the planet’s uncompromising call to action 经济地理与地球边界：接受地球毫不妥协的行动号召

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100021

Camilla Chlebna , Emil Evenhuis , Diana Morales

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