This page has only limited features, please log in for full access.

Unclaimed
Philip Cooke
Mohn Center for Regional Innovation & Development, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway

Honors and Awards

The user has no records in this section


Career Timeline

The user has no records in this section.


Short Biography

Philip Cooke was University Research Professor in regional economic development (1991) and founding director (1993) of the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff. In 2014 he became Professor at the MohnCenter of Innovation & Regional Development, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway. He was Adjunct Professor in Development Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark; LEREPS, University of Toulouse, France; and the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development. He received, in 2006, an Honorary Doctorate at Lund University, Sweden, and in 2012 an Honorary Doctorate in Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland.

Following
Followers
Co Authors
The list of users this user is following is empty.
Following: 0 users

Feed

Journal article
Published: 17 August 2021 in Regional Studies
Reads 0
Downloads 0

This paper is interested in the application of ‘digital innovation’ modes in an extended geographical economy setting, namely automotive industry process innovation. It is clear that challenging, complex and combinatory or ‘crossover’ knowledge issues arise periodically as competing system processes rise and fall in popularity with rivalrous automakers. This involves achieving the image if not the reality as ‘digital twins’ of prescience in marketing, monitoring and maintenance. These are all central elements of ‘surveillance capitalism’ facilitated by big data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Such combinations are envisioned and to varying degrees implemented in what Industry 4.0 advocates call the ‘smart factory’, but its critics call the ‘lights out’ or ‘dark factory’. This is because of its potentially full automation and absence of humans. Brief conclusions follow.

ACS Style

Philip Cooke. Image and reality: ‘digital twins’ in smart factory automotive process innovation – critical issues. Regional Studies 2021, 1 -12.

AMA Style

Philip Cooke. Image and reality: ‘digital twins’ in smart factory automotive process innovation – critical issues. Regional Studies. 2021; ():1-12.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke. 2021. "Image and reality: ‘digital twins’ in smart factory automotive process innovation – critical issues." Regional Studies , no. : 1-12.

Research article
Published: 06 June 2021 in European Planning Studies
Reads 0
Downloads 0

This contribution is critical of Neo-Schumpeterian innovation studies for a historic tendency to reify ‘industrial’ capitalism as its main conceptual framing model. This includes blind spots concerning the sustainability-free advocacy of ‘green revolution’ chemical fertilizer, pesticide and herbicide practice in industrialist food production. The Coronavirus contagion has alerted regional scientists to these lacunae and this contribution attempts to re-balance the prevailing traditional industrialist bias by considering alternative, more sustainability-informed innovation emphases. These include efforts to conceive innovative sustainable spatial planning models. A particular omission has been re-appraisal of the negative sustainability effects of global tourism. We do this by analyses of ‘territorial innovation’, including considerations of ‘new urbanism’ solutions to prevailing discontents, and advocating ‘GreenSphere’ design of ‘circular economies’ to escape from the negative effects of the environmental despoliation by urban congestion, widespread pollution (including pandemics), global tourism and human well-being. We exemplify the aspects of these conditions by running through three post-urban Model-types – Megacentres (e.g. Bioregional); Gigacentres (e.g. Global Tourism GigaSheds) and GreenSpheres (New Circular Ecologies) before concluding our contribution.

ACS Style

Philip Cooke; Sérgio Nunes. Post-Coronavirus regional innovation policies: from mega to giga and beyond through sustainable spatial planning of global tourism. European Planning Studies 2021, 1 -19.

AMA Style

Philip Cooke, Sérgio Nunes. Post-Coronavirus regional innovation policies: from mega to giga and beyond through sustainable spatial planning of global tourism. European Planning Studies. 2021; ():1-19.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke; Sérgio Nunes. 2021. "Post-Coronavirus regional innovation policies: from mega to giga and beyond through sustainable spatial planning of global tourism." European Planning Studies , no. : 1-19.

Journal article
Published: 10 April 2021 in Sustainability
Reads 0
Downloads 0

This paper presents an analysis and interpretation of the current state of play in the global value network of minerals mining, refining and transformation processes in the contemporary battery industry, which will power potentially crucial future industries for manufacture of electric vehicles (EVs) and solar-storage energy systems. The dark influence of the carbon lock-in landscape is gradually being mitigated under the challenge of achieving the “500 mile” battery charge, which would make a transformational difference in the replacement of renewably fuelled vehicles and storage systems, currently still predominantly driven by fossil fuels. The challenge has led to a “war” between manufacturers, miners and refiners, who have realised that the challenge has come alive while most have been vacillating. At an “individualist” rather than an “institutionalist” level, Elon Musk, for all his faults, deserves credit for “moving the market” in these two important industry sectors. This paper anatomises key events and processes stimulating change in this global economic activity through an “abductive” reasoning model and a qualitative “pattern recognition” methodology that proves valuable in achieving rational, probabilistic forecasts. Established incremental innovation characterises first responses in the “war” but research agencies like ARPA are active in funding research that may produce radical battery innovation in future.

ACS Style

Philip Cooke. The Lithium Wars: From Kokkola to the Congo for the 500 Mile Battery. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4215 .

AMA Style

Philip Cooke. The Lithium Wars: From Kokkola to the Congo for the 500 Mile Battery. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (8):4215.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke. 2021. "The Lithium Wars: From Kokkola to the Congo for the 500 Mile Battery." Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4215.

Perspective
Published: 11 March 2021 in Sustainability
Reads 0
Downloads 0

This paper has three main objectives. It traces the “closed” urban model of city development, critiques it at length, showing how it has led to an unsustainable dead-end, represented in post-Covid-19 “ghost town” status for many central cities, and proposes a new “open” model of city design. This is avowedly an unsegregated and non-segmented utilisation of now often abandoned city-centre space in “open” forms favouring urban prairie, or more formalised urban parklands, interspersed with so-called “agritecture” in redundant high-rise buildings, shopping malls and parking lots. It favours sustainable theme-park models of family entertainment “experiences” all supported by sustainable hospitality, integrated mixed land uses and sustainable transportation. Consideration is given to likely financial resource issues but the dearth of current commercial investment opportunities from the old carbonised urban model, alongside public policy and consumer support for urban greening, are concluded to form a propitious post-coronavirus context for furthering the vision.

ACS Style

Philip Cooke. After the Contagion. Ghost City Centres: Closed “Smart” or Open Greener? Sustainability 2021, 13, 3071 .

AMA Style

Philip Cooke. After the Contagion. Ghost City Centres: Closed “Smart” or Open Greener? Sustainability. 2021; 13 (6):3071.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke. 2021. "After the Contagion. Ghost City Centres: Closed “Smart” or Open Greener?" Sustainability 13, no. 6: 3071.

Journal article
Published: 27 January 2021 in Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity
Reads 0
Downloads 0

This paper compares and contrasts three disruptive models of potential and actual new kinds of spatial planning. These include “seasteading”, “smart neighbourhoods” and “renewable spatial systems”. Each is labelled with distinctive discursive titles, respectively: “Attention Capitalism”; “Surveillance Capitalism” and “Sustainable Capitalism” denoting the different lineaments of each, although they all have their origins in the Silicon Valley techno-entrepreneurial milieu. In each case, while the path dependences of trajectories have diverged the progenitors were often erstwhile business partners at the outset. The paper is interested in qualitative methodology and proposes “pattern recognition” as a means to disclose the deep psychological, sociological, political and economic levels that inform the surface appearances and functions of the diverse spatial planning modes and designs that have been advanced or inferred from empirically observable initiator practice. “Dark Triad” analysis is entailed in actualising psychological deep structures. Each of the three models is discussed and the lineaments of their initiators’ ideas are disclosed. Each “school” has a designated mentor(s), respectively: academic B. J. Fogg and venture capitalist Peter Thiel for “Attention Capitalism”, “smart city” planner Dan Doctoroff for “Surveillance Capitalism” and “renewable energineer” and Elon Musk for “Sustainable Capitalism”, the eventual winner of this existential “dark versus light triad” urban planning contest.

ACS Style

Philip Cooke. Three Disruptive Models of New Spatial Planning: “Attention”, “Surveillance” or “Sustainable” Capitalisms? Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 2021, 7, 46 .

AMA Style

Philip Cooke. Three Disruptive Models of New Spatial Planning: “Attention”, “Surveillance” or “Sustainable” Capitalisms? Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity. 2021; 7 (1):46.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke. 2021. "Three Disruptive Models of New Spatial Planning: “Attention”, “Surveillance” or “Sustainable” Capitalisms?" Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 7, no. 1: 46.

Chapter
Published: 29 October 2020 in Against Entrepreneurship
Reads 0
Downloads 0

First section of this chapter has a discussion with narrative case material offered on deregulation and its free market “entrepreneurial” expression, execution and effects ranging from corruption to inept implementation, leading to eventual but unwilling demise. Second, outsourcing and its discontents, ranging from employee suicide, toxic pollution and collusive boundary blurring, are anatomized and found wanting because of entrepreneurial “insouciance” (meaning carefree disregard for normal rules of health, safety and human dignity). Finally, globalization—through its reliance on “lawless” entrepreneurial practices in global supply chains is scrutinized. The second half of the chapter is exercised by entrepreneurship insouciance, or even “imperiousness”; what is wrong with it and why entrepreneurs are voting with their feet. Brief discussion and conclusions follow.

ACS Style

Philip Cooke. Entrepreneurial Insouciance (or Imperiousness), the Big Risk Shift and the Entrepreneurship Interregnum. Against Entrepreneurship 2020, 167 -183.

AMA Style

Philip Cooke. Entrepreneurial Insouciance (or Imperiousness), the Big Risk Shift and the Entrepreneurship Interregnum. Against Entrepreneurship. 2020; ():167-183.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke. 2020. "Entrepreneurial Insouciance (or Imperiousness), the Big Risk Shift and the Entrepreneurship Interregnum." Against Entrepreneurship , no. : 167-183.

Viewpoint
Published: 24 September 2020 in Urban Science
Reads 0
Downloads 0

This contribution seeks to achieve three main objectives. First it draws on a substantial, but often overlooked literature on wide-scale international decline in entrepreneurship as recorded in the ‘business dynamics’ literature. This has serious implications for academic study of entrepreneurship which must re-direct its focus to problems of entrepreneurial unattractiveness dating from at least the 1980s. More important, public policy makers and political ideologists need further to be apprised of the erroneous nature of many of their beliefs and further change the subsidy regimes they bestow on often unproductive entrepreneurship. Second, the contribution seeks one part of the explanation of the declining attractiveness of entrepreneurship in the psychology of the ‘dark triad’ of negative personality traits that has been connected to the literature on ‘dark entrepreneurship’ as a possible and partial, but important reason for the growing unattractiveness of entrepreneurship. The contribution devotes attention to the ‘Mindfulness’ movement in considering the detoxification of ‘dark entrepreneurship’. Finally, in what may be an original response to this analysis, the contribution draws attention to recent work on a putative ‘light triad’ of personality traits and applies it, possibly for the first time, to secondarily researched accounts of ‘green entrepreneurship’. The conclusion is that there may be a future for green entrepreneurship as a means for recovery in the current status of more traditional ‘business dynamics’.

ACS Style

Philip Cooke. Dark Entrepreneurship, the ‘Dark Triad’ and Its Potential ‘Light Triad’ Realization in ‘Green Entrepreneurship’. Urban Science 2020, 4, 45 .

AMA Style

Philip Cooke. Dark Entrepreneurship, the ‘Dark Triad’ and Its Potential ‘Light Triad’ Realization in ‘Green Entrepreneurship’. Urban Science. 2020; 4 (4):45.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke. 2020. "Dark Entrepreneurship, the ‘Dark Triad’ and Its Potential ‘Light Triad’ Realization in ‘Green Entrepreneurship’." Urban Science 4, no. 4: 45.

Journal article
Published: 08 April 2020 in Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity
Reads 0
Downloads 0

In her study of ‘Surveillance Capitalism’, Shoshana Zuboff cites Google’s parent firm Alphabet’s legal customer-purchase agreement for the parent firm’s Nest thermostats. These impose ‘oppressive privacy and security consequences’ requiring sensitive information to be shared through ‘Internet-of-Things’ (IoT) networks with other domestic and external devices, unnamed functionaries and various third parties. This is for data harvesting, analytics, processing, manipulation and transformation through digital re-sale to the same and other consumers in the form of unwanted, targeted advertising. The point of this identity ‘rendition’ is to massively augment corporate profits. It is but a short step from trapping the unwitting consumer in a ‘smart home’ to planning a similarly mediated ‘smart city’ aimed at further massively augmenting corporate profits. This is happening, as founders of digital media from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Tesla either commission or become beneficiaries of ‘smart city’ planning. However, there is evidence that such imperiousness is increasingly countered by emerging democratic critique of these new ‘model villages’ or ‘company towns’.

ACS Style

Philip Cooke. Silicon Valley Imperialists Create New Model Villages as Smart Cities in Their Own Image. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 2020, 6, 24 .

AMA Style

Philip Cooke. Silicon Valley Imperialists Create New Model Villages as Smart Cities in Their Own Image. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity. 2020; 6 (2):24.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke. 2020. "Silicon Valley Imperialists Create New Model Villages as Smart Cities in Their Own Image." Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 6, no. 2: 24.

Chapter
Published: 20 March 2020 in Innovationssysteme der TV-Unterhaltungsproduktion
Reads 0
Downloads 0

Dieser Beitrag enthält einen systematischen Überblick zum Konzepte regionaler Innovationssysteme. Anhand von fünf Dimensionen lässt sich analysieren, inwieweit eine Region ein funktionsfähiges Innovationssystem besitzt. Über den vorherrschenden Modus interaktiver Governance, kombiniert mit den Mustern zwischenbetrieblicher Beziehungen, erhält man ein schlüssiges Bild über den Systemcharakter regionaler Innovationen. Einer kritischen Betrachtung werden sodann die europäische und die US-amerikanische Regionalpolitik unterzogen. Wobei der komparative Vorteil Letzterer darauf zurückgeführt wird, dass sie sich stärker auf die Förderung privater Investitionen und Finanzierungskanäle verlässt und somit auch die komparativen institutionellen Vorteile des US-amerikanischen Wirtschaftsmodells mobilisiert. In diesem Sinne werden regionale Varianten kapitalistischer Marktwirtschaften, wie das Silicon Valley-Modell wissensbasierter Unternehmensvernetzung, durch die vorherrschenden nationalen Koordinationsmodelle geprägt. Die Analyse des Verhältnisses institutioneller Architekturen von Innovationssystemen auf unterschiedlichen räumlichen Ebenen verweist auf die Problematik der Komplementarität der institutionellen Komponenten solcher Systeme.

ACS Style

Philip Cooke. Regionale Innovationssysteme, Cluster und die Wissensökonomie. Innovationssysteme der TV-Unterhaltungsproduktion 2020, 87 -118.

AMA Style

Philip Cooke. Regionale Innovationssysteme, Cluster und die Wissensökonomie. Innovationssysteme der TV-Unterhaltungsproduktion. 2020; ():87-118.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke. 2020. "Regionale Innovationssysteme, Cluster und die Wissensökonomie." Innovationssysteme der TV-Unterhaltungsproduktion , no. : 87-118.

Journal article
Published: 06 March 2020 in Sustainability
Reads 0
Downloads 0

This paper concerns the spatial structure of Tesla’s four ‘gigafactories’ (‘giga’ is gigawatt hour, GWh) which are located in Tesla’s first Gigafacility (1) at Sparks, near Reno, Nevada; the Solar City Gigafactory (2) at Buffalo, New York state; the 2019 Tesla plant at Shanghai, China Gigafactory (3); and the new Tesla gigafactory Europe Gigafactory (4), which is a manufacturing plant to be constructed in Grünheide, near Berlin, Germany. The newest campus is 20 miles southeast of central Berlin on the main railway line to Wrocław, Poland. Three main features of the ‘gigafactory’ phenomenon, apart from their scale, are in the industry organisation of production, which thus far reverses much current conventional wisdom regarding production geography. Thus, Tesla’s automotive facility in Fremont California reconcentrates manufacturing on site as in-house own brand componentry, especially heavy parts, or by requiring hitherto distant global suppliers to locate in proximity to the main manufacturing plant. Second, as an electric vehicle (EV) producer, the contributions of Tesla’s production infrastructure and logistics infrastructure are important in meeting greenhouse gas mitigation and the reduction of global warming. Finally, the deployment of Big Data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and ‘predictive management’ are important. This lies in gigafactory logistics contributing to production and distribution efficiency and effectiveness as a primer for all future industry and services in seeking to minimise time-management issues. This too potentially contributes significantly to the reduction of wasteful energy usage.

ACS Style

Philip Cooke. Gigafactory Logistics in Space and Time: Tesla’s Fourth Gigafactory and Its Rivals. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2044 .

AMA Style

Philip Cooke. Gigafactory Logistics in Space and Time: Tesla’s Fourth Gigafactory and Its Rivals. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (5):2044.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke. 2020. "Gigafactory Logistics in Space and Time: Tesla’s Fourth Gigafactory and Its Rivals." Sustainability 12, no. 5: 2044.

Journal article
Published: 09 April 2019 in Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity
Reads 0
Downloads 0

The aim of this paper is to attempt to understand why the popular academic and policy field of promoting, studying and evangelising “entrepreneurship” should have been associated with great success but, in the past twenty years or more in many advanced economies, so much failure. From the US to lesser and developing countries, emerging economies and the European Union, entrepreneurship, especially in regard to start-ups and particularly high-tech start-ups, has been in constant more or less recent decline. This is seldom registered in the mainstream literature where a positive and benign profile is generally presented. The paper examines this phenomenon, ties it partly with the “productivity paradox” and seeks tentative hypotheses in relation to the apparent illusions if not delusions regarding “entrepreneurship”.

ACS Style

Philip Cooke. World Turned Upside Down: Entrepreneurial Decline, Its Reluctant Myths and Troubling Realities. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 2019, 5, 22 .

AMA Style

Philip Cooke. World Turned Upside Down: Entrepreneurial Decline, Its Reluctant Myths and Troubling Realities. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity. 2019; 5 (2):22.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke. 2019. "World Turned Upside Down: Entrepreneurial Decline, Its Reluctant Myths and Troubling Realities." Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 5, no. 2: 22.

Preprint
Published: 23 January 2019
Reads 0
Downloads 0

The aim of this paper is to attempt to understand why the popular academic and policy field of promoting, studying and evangelising “entrepreneurship” should have been associated with great success but, in the past twenty years or more in many advanced economies, so much failure. From the US to lesser and developing countries, emerging economies and the European Union, entrepreneurship, especially in regard to start-ups and particularly high-tech start-ups have been in constant more or less recent decline. This is seldom registered in the mainstream literature where a positive and benign profile is generally presented. The paper examines this phenomenon, ties it partly with the “productivity paradox” and seeks tentative hypotheses in relation to the apparent illusions if not delusions regarding “entrepreneurship”.

ACS Style

Philip Cooke. World Turned Upside Down: Entrepreneurial Decline, Its Reluctant Myths and Troubling Realities. 2019, 1 .

AMA Style

Philip Cooke. World Turned Upside Down: Entrepreneurial Decline, Its Reluctant Myths and Troubling Realities. . 2019; ():1.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke. 2019. "World Turned Upside Down: Entrepreneurial Decline, Its Reluctant Myths and Troubling Realities." , no. : 1.

Articles
Published: 02 December 2018 in European Planning Studies
Reads 0
Downloads 0

Contemporary innovation destroys more value than it creates by three effects. First it mimics already existing basic technologies (phone, camera, directory, games) adding little value but displacing while disrupting existing services. Second, it exploits human rights to security, privacy and truthful reportage without seriously regulated or legislated accountability. Third, social media – the main offender – takes prodigious profits at huge social cost, by facilitating the grooming of terrorists, vulnerable persons and enabling varieties of criminality; it feloniously steals private property, notably human identities for advertising revenue; and it facilitates dissemination of fake news, research and propaganda. To parody Mark Zuckerberg’s injunction to his company’s corporate mission and its achievement of ‘monopoly advantage’ the company was, until recently, officially driven to ‘move fast and break things’ (i.e. the law).

ACS Style

Philip Cooke. Responsible research and innovation? From FinTech’s ‘flash crash’ at Cermak to digitech’s Willow Campus and Quayside. European Planning Studies 2018, 27, 2376 -2393.

AMA Style

Philip Cooke. Responsible research and innovation? From FinTech’s ‘flash crash’ at Cermak to digitech’s Willow Campus and Quayside. European Planning Studies. 2018; 27 (12):2376-2393.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke. 2018. "Responsible research and innovation? From FinTech’s ‘flash crash’ at Cermak to digitech’s Willow Campus and Quayside." European Planning Studies 27, no. 12: 2376-2393.

Chapter
Published: 23 August 2018 in Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 2
Reads 0
Downloads 0

This chapter reviews some key conceptual and practical barriers that have hampered territorial economic development prospects in most advanced countries for some time. It is argued in the paper that influential development thinkers and policy organisations, supranational (UNIDO; World Bank; EU) as well as national and regional became wedded in an unholy alliance of neoclassical economic dogma and neoliberal policy ideology during the period from approximately 1980 to the 2008 global financial crash and beyond to the time of writing (2015). In outline, neoclassical dogma stressed the virtues of spatial ‘specialisation’ as an economic development virtue. The heart of this perspective with its claimed inheritance from Marshall to Arrow to Romer coalesced in the nowadays nearly ubiquitous spatial policy image if not always the reality of “clusters”. The neoliberal accompaniment was that “efficient markets” were superior allocation mechanisms to markets shaped by policies to overcome “market failure”, “adverse selection”, and so-called “agency” problems. The great escape from such cognitive and policy “lock-in” involves demonstration in conceptual and many comparative empirical studies that regional knowledge and innovation flows were no longer, if they ever had been, vertical, linear and cumulative but horizontal, variegated and combinative. In this brief review evolutionary economic geography (EEG) is refashioned as evolutionary complexity geography (ECG) which, with acknowledgement to recent resilience issues, is grounded by reference to exemplars of transversality, which is the name for innovation and knowledge flows policy that overcomes the cognitive and policy lock-ins described above.

ACS Style

Philip Cooke. Evolutionary Complexity Geography and the Future of Regional Innovation and Growth Policies. Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 2 2018, 11 -30.

AMA Style

Philip Cooke. Evolutionary Complexity Geography and the Future of Regional Innovation and Growth Policies. Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 2. 2018; ():11-30.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke. 2018. "Evolutionary Complexity Geography and the Future of Regional Innovation and Growth Policies." Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 2 , no. : 11-30.

Editorial
Published: 19 July 2018 in European Planning Studies
Reads 0
Downloads 0

This is a summary of the Editorial of the 25th Anniversary Special Issue of European Planning Studies. The editorial summarizes three representative articles from planners and economic policy actors published in 1993, the first year of publication of the journal. These write of threats and possibilities from privatized planning, from the European Single Market and the prospects for regional innovation policy. In the second part, nine papers are summarized. These range from an exegesis of the Anthropocene, the rise of populism and the transition in neoliberalist planning, and migration as a city planning issue in European cities. Other papers then analyse aspects of evolutionary change upon city and region policy and process dynamics. Finally a group of papers explore the rise of creative cities, 4.0 era industry and services and the role of ‘starchitects’ in city renewal as well as 4.0 digital settlements.

ACS Style

Philip Cooke. Retrospect and prospect: from a new dark age to a new dawn of planning enlightenment. European Planning Studies 2018, 26, 1701 -1713.

AMA Style

Philip Cooke. Retrospect and prospect: from a new dark age to a new dawn of planning enlightenment. European Planning Studies. 2018; 26 (9):1701-1713.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke. 2018. "Retrospect and prospect: from a new dark age to a new dawn of planning enlightenment." European Planning Studies 26, no. 9: 1701-1713.

Articles
Published: 12 January 2018 in European Planning Studies
Reads 0
Downloads 0

Changes in leading-edge urban and regional development processes and policies signify the rise of the ‘Quaternary’ or 4.0 Era of economic growth. Few such spaces exist yet, but they have prodigious global reach from locations like Cambridge (as the exemplar here), Israel and Silicon Valley. Their surface spread has led to the designation ‘thin globalization’ compared with ‘thick’ antecedents based on manufacturing and routine services. Each displays ‘post-cluster’ or ‘platform’ inter-connectivity and even early signs of ‘de-globalization’ via on-shoring of suppliers. Pioneers in ‘crossover’ innovation 4.0 platform evolution include ‘flagship’ corporations like FAGAMi (Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft). These and other flagships acquire and site labs in proximity to Cambridge’s and other university research institutes and talent. They work to what seems like a neoliberal ‘Plan for the Future’ in at least three cases embedded in futuristic urban design utopias. This further advantages innovation ‘microsystems’ like Cambridge and innovation ‘macrosystems’ like Silicon Valley that evolve diversified ‘platform-clusters’ of ‘crossover’ innovations flowing from interactions among microelectronic systems, advanced mobility, machine learning, AI, robotics be mitigated healthcare. The research problem is how can such extreme uneven growth polarization and

ACS Style

Philip Cooke. Generative growth with ‘thin’ globalization: Cambridge’s crossover model of innovation. European Planning Studies 2018, 26, 1815 -1834.

AMA Style

Philip Cooke. Generative growth with ‘thin’ globalization: Cambridge’s crossover model of innovation. European Planning Studies. 2018; 26 (9):1815-1834.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke. 2018. "Generative growth with ‘thin’ globalization: Cambridge’s crossover model of innovation." European Planning Studies 26, no. 9: 1815-1834.

Journal article
Published: 12 July 2017 in Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity
Reads 0
Downloads 0

This paper offers an account of the recent economic slowdown in the growth trajectory formerly enjoyed by South Korea as one of the first “Asian Tigers”. Indicators are provided that, unlike the others, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan that have continued their upward profile, South Korea has stagnated. It is argued that the others and some more recent Asian growth economies have moved upwards to higher value, high skill and high profitability levels and deindustrialising as they did so. This even applies to recent breakthrough economies like China and Vietnam. In each case, “financialization” has been an important element in the growth of the Quaternary economy, even in such relative newcomers as Vietnam, where privatization of services has attracted private equity and other foreign direct investment financiers. Thus manufacturing is less pronounced than it was. Meanwhile, South Korea has a weak international presence of banks and other financial sectors because of the domestic focus in its indigenous growth model. Other weaknesses of closed versus open innovation and “cronyism” at the behest of the Chaebol system can be laid at the door of South Korea’s traditional conglomerates. A different model of “thin globalisation” led by knowledge-intensive high-tech, biotech and cleantech with prodigious financialization is characteristic of the new fast-growth regions and countries elsewhere, notably Israel, Silicon Valley and Cambridge. Here flattened hierarchies, reliable networking, and “crossover” innovation are pronounced and from which South Korean industrialists and policymakers could usefully learn to recover past growth performance.

ACS Style

Philip Cooke. A ground-up “Quaternary” innovation strategy for South Korea using entrepreneurial ecosystem platforms. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 2017, 3, 1 -16.

AMA Style

Philip Cooke. A ground-up “Quaternary” innovation strategy for South Korea using entrepreneurial ecosystem platforms. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity. 2017; 3 (1):1-16.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke. 2017. "A ground-up “Quaternary” innovation strategy for South Korea using entrepreneurial ecosystem platforms." Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 3, no. 1: 1-16.

Journal article
Published: 22 June 2017 in Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity
Reads 0
Downloads 0

This paper brings together two related bodies of theory that assist understanding of processes of socio-technical system change on the global scale. These are, first, the Global Value Chain perspective (GVC) that has now mutated into Global Production Networks (GPN) and, more recently, Global Innovation Networks (GIN). Examples of why this should be are exemplified (e.g. Scandinavia’s mobile telephony ‘creative destruction’). The second perspective is that of Territorial Innovation Systems. This addresses the innovative core of ‘creative destruction’ events which, in turn, explains economic growth and development. In recent times this has been significantly undergirded by means of concepts like ‘relatedness’, ‘proximity’ and ‘path dependence’. These perspectives are combined to produce a framework for analysing the contribution of an increasingly commoditised ICT assembly industry to high-value, customised ‘chipset’ and ‘apps’ design around smartphones, netbooks and flat panel display (FPD) technologies that express the GIN/TIS complex in global ‘value curve’ integration. Here ‘creative destruction’ recombinations arise because, from an evolutionary perspective, the regions in which they emerge display technological ‘relatedness’ and regional ‘regimes’ that foster co-innovation, in this case ICT-based co-innovation.

ACS Style

Philip Cooke. Complex spaces: global innovation networks & territorial innovation systems in information & communication technologies. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 2017, 3, 1 -23.

AMA Style

Philip Cooke. Complex spaces: global innovation networks & territorial innovation systems in information & communication technologies. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity. 2017; 3 (1):1-23.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke. 2017. "Complex spaces: global innovation networks & territorial innovation systems in information & communication technologies." Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 3, no. 1: 1-23.

Guest editorial
Published: 08 February 2017 in European Planning Studies
Reads 0
Downloads 0

This Special Issue showcases eight articles on the emergent idea of “entrepreneurial ecosystems”. As a subject it has begun to attract early attention because it professes to realise the fundamentally social processes of entrepreneurial practice as against the cartoon-like figure of the heroic entrepreneur much–beloved of those in entrepreneurial studies and policies of a more individualistic persuasion. Furthermore, it aims to assist development of coherence in the field of study occasioned by the great variety of forms and labels given to small and micro-businesses consequent on the erosion in scale and scope of many traditional large enterprises. A further introductory point to be made is that many of the articles on display originate in South Korea where the attenuation of large corporate actors, stagnating national growth rates and government support for entrepreneurship have been one response to the crisis. Hanjin is merely one of the recent casualties of the faltering of globalisation for the South Korean corporate sector, beneficiary of major port-related innovation investment in the past as the South Korea – China comparison paper reveals. Other papers anatomise “platform ecosystems” in ICT applications, green urban policies, clusters, creative industry and regional development. All of these impinge upon government support for entrepreneurial efforts to grow a more social economy and, indeed, economic sociology and geography of regional and national growth.

ACS Style

JinHyo Joseph Yun; Philip Cooke; Jiyoung Park. Evolution and variety in complex geographies and enterprise policies. European Planning Studies 2017, 25, 729 -738.

AMA Style

JinHyo Joseph Yun, Philip Cooke, Jiyoung Park. Evolution and variety in complex geographies and enterprise policies. European Planning Studies. 2017; 25 (5):729-738.

Chicago/Turabian Style

JinHyo Joseph Yun; Philip Cooke; Jiyoung Park. 2017. "Evolution and variety in complex geographies and enterprise policies." European Planning Studies 25, no. 5: 729-738.

Journal article
Published: 30 January 2017 in European Planning Studies
Reads 0
Downloads 0
ACS Style

Philip Cooke. ‘Digital tech’ and the public sector: what new role after public funding? European Planning Studies 2017, 25, 739 -754.

AMA Style

Philip Cooke. ‘Digital tech’ and the public sector: what new role after public funding? European Planning Studies. 2017; 25 (5):739-754.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Philip Cooke. 2017. "‘Digital tech’ and the public sector: what new role after public funding?" European Planning Studies 25, no. 5: 739-754.