Paul Vallance
Biographic Data
| ID | 1474443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Vallance |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Vallance |
| SIGNATURE | VALLANCE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8758-7796 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The role of system-building agency in regional path creation: Insights from the emergence of artificial intelligence in Montreal
The emergence of new industries that are not closely related to existing regional paths remains an underexplained process in evolutionary economic geography. This paper responds to this gap through a case study of a maturing ecosystem of activity related to artificial intelligence in Montreal, Canada. Conceptually it brings together recent thinking in economic geography about agency in path development with complementary concepts from the literat…
Building collaborative platforms for urban innovation: Newcastle City Futures as a quadruple helix intermediary
There is a growing academic and policy interest in the notion of using cities as ‘living laboratories’ to develop and test responses to the social, environmental and economic challenges present in contemporary urbanism. These living laboratories are often assumed to function through ‘quadruple helix’ relations between varied actors from the public, private, university and community sectors. However, empirical research that explores the real-world…
Facilitating spaces for place-based leadership in centralized governance systems: The case of Newcastle City Futures
This paper explores how distributed and relational forms of place-based leadership can be facilitated in environments with \nconstrained local governance capabilities. It is based on an in-depth case study of a university-hosted collaborative platform \nsituated in a city/regional institutional landscape marked by limited local devolution and public sector austerity. The research \ncontributes to a fuller understanding of place-based leadership b…
Smart specialisation in regions with less-developed research and innovation systems: A changing role for universities
Universities and other knowledge institutions have quickly come to be seen as central to smart specialisation. However, their exact role in Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation has yet to receive much critical attention in the academic literature. This is particularly notable as defining features of smart specialisation – such as the entrepreneurial dynamic of the strategy-formation process, and differentiated nature of the…
The Civic University: The Policy and Leadership Challenges
Higher Education and the Creative Economy: Beyond the Campus
Modern research universities, often thought of as primarily institutions of the sciences and engineering, are likely to be equally institutions of the arts, design and humanities. This part of thei
Universities, Public Research, and Evolutionary Economic Geography
Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG) has, thus far, neglected the contribution of universities to innovation processes in its emerging theoretical explanations of territorial economic change. This article begins to address this conceptual gap by outlining a perspective on the ways in which universities, as organizations with institutional features and functions that are distinctive to those of firms, can enhance the adaptive capacity of national…
Universities as anchor institutions in cities in a turbulent funding environment: Vulnerable institutions and vulnerable places in England
The paper examines universities as anchor institutions in the context of a major upheaval in the funding of English higher education. The various components of these changes are combined into a multivariate indicator of institutional vulnerability for universities in England. This is then linked to a classification of university cities to identify the most vulnerable institutions in the most vulnerable places with the greatest dependence on highe…
The University and the City
Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are global players with significant local direct and indirect impacts – on employment, the built environment, business innovation and the wider society. The University and the City explores these impacts and in the process seeks to expose the extent to which universities are just in the city, or part of the city and actively contributing …
Creative knowing, organisational learning, and socio-spatial expansion in UK videogame development studios
Dominant theories of creativity and innovation in economic geography do not seem to apply to the UK videogames development sector, because it does not exhibit strong tendencies to cluster in urban areas or organise production through systems of horizontal inter-firm relationships. This paper explores alternative explanations of learning in this knowledge-intensive sector by focusing on work practices within development studios and projects. The r…
Relational and Dialectical Spaces of Knowing: Knowledge, Practice, and Work in Economic Geography
Recent work in economic geography suggests the emergence of a distinctive relational and practice-centred set of perspectives on knowledge, based around concepts including communities of practice and relational proximity. This paper will argue that, despite the significant advances in understanding this work contributes, it does not yet provide a complete account of knowing-in-practice, and proposes a stronger focus on work activity as a first st…
Teaching and Learning Guide: Rethinking Economic Geographies of Knowledge
Introduction Knowledge, learning and innovation are now accepted as central features of the contemporary post‐industrial economy, leading to their study across a range of academic disciplines including economics, business and management studies, and the social sciences. Economic geographers have made distinctive contributions to these wider debates by highlighting the uneven spatial distribution of knowledge‐intensive production activities in cer…
Rethinking Economic Geographies of Knowledge
This article reviews recent research on knowledge and learning in economic geography that moves away from established regional development approaches. This conventional position is briefly outlined, focusing on the fixity of tacit knowledge in local inter-firm relations and institutions, within settings such as clusters and learning regions. The literature that I focus on here explores a range of alternative ways to conceptualise learning process…
Science, politics and the pharmaceutical industry
Science, politics and the pharmaceutical industry
Facilitating spaces for place-based leadership in centralized governance systems: The case of Newcastle City Futures
This paper explores how distributed and relational forms of place-based leadership can be facilitated in environments with \nconstrained local governance capabilities. It is based on an in-depth case study of a university-hosted collaborative platform \nsituated in a city/regional institutional landscape marked by limited local devolution and public sector austerity. The research \ncontributes to a fuller understanding of place-based leadership b…
Universities as anchor institutions in cities in a turbulent funding environment: Vulnerable institutions and vulnerable places in England
The paper examines universities as anchor institutions in the context of a major upheaval in the funding of English higher education. The various components of these changes are combined into a multivariate indicator of institutional vulnerability for universities in England. This is then linked to a classification of university cities to identify the most vulnerable institutions in the most vulnerable places with the greatest dependence on highe…
Building collaborative platforms for urban innovation: Newcastle City Futures as a quadruple helix intermediary
There is a growing academic and policy interest in the notion of using cities as ‘living laboratories’ to develop and test responses to the social, environmental and economic challenges present in contemporary urbanism. These living laboratories are often assumed to function through ‘quadruple helix’ relations between varied actors from the public, private, university and community sectors. However, empirical research that explores the real-world…
Creative knowing, organisational learning, and socio-spatial expansion in UK videogame development studios
Dominant theories of creativity and innovation in economic geography do not seem to apply to the UK videogames development sector, because it does not exhibit strong tendencies to cluster in urban areas or organise production through systems of horizontal inter-firm relationships. This paper explores alternative explanations of learning in this knowledge-intensive sector by focusing on work practices within development studios and projects. The r…
The role of system-building agency in regional path creation: Insights from the emergence of artificial intelligence in Montreal
The emergence of new industries that are not closely related to existing regional paths remains an underexplained process in evolutionary economic geography. This paper responds to this gap through a case study of a maturing ecosystem of activity related to artificial intelligence in Montreal, Canada. Conceptually it brings together recent thinking in economic geography about agency in path development with complementary concepts from the literat…
Rethinking Economic Geographies of Knowledge
This article reviews recent research on knowledge and learning in economic geography that moves away from established regional development approaches. This conventional position is briefly outlined, focusing on the fixity of tacit knowledge in local inter-firm relations and institutions, within settings such as clusters and learning regions. The literature that I focus on here explores a range of alternative ways to conceptualise learning process…
Relational and Dialectical Spaces of Knowing: Knowledge, Practice, and Work in Economic Geography
Recent work in economic geography suggests the emergence of a distinctive relational and practice-centred set of perspectives on knowledge, based around concepts including communities of practice and relational proximity. This paper will argue that, despite the significant advances in understanding this work contributes, it does not yet provide a complete account of knowing-in-practice, and proposes a stronger focus on work activity as a first st…
Universities, Public Research, and Evolutionary Economic Geography
Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG) has, thus far, neglected the contribution of universities to innovation processes in its emerging theoretical explanations of territorial economic change. This article begins to address this conceptual gap by outlining a perspective on the ways in which universities, as organizations with institutional features and functions that are distinctive to those of firms, can enhance the adaptive capacity of national…
Smart specialisation in regions with less-developed research and innovation systems: A changing role for universities
Universities and other knowledge institutions have quickly come to be seen as central to smart specialisation. However, their exact role in Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation has yet to receive much critical attention in the academic literature. This is particularly notable as defining features of smart specialisation – such as the entrepreneurial dynamic of the strategy-formation process, and differentiated nature of the…
Science, politics and the pharmaceutical industry
Rethinking Economic Geographies of Knowledge
This article reviews recent research on knowledge and learning in economic geography that moves away from established regional development approaches. This conventional position is briefly outlined, focusing on the fixity of tacit knowledge in local inter-firm relations and institutions, within settings such as clusters and learning regions. The literature that I focus on here explores a range of alternative ways to conceptualise learning process…
Teaching and Learning Guide: Rethinking Economic Geographies of Knowledge
Introduction Knowledge, learning and innovation are now accepted as central features of the contemporary post‐industrial economy, leading to their study across a range of academic disciplines including economics, business and management studies, and the social sciences. Economic geographers have made distinctive contributions to these wider debates by highlighting the uneven spatial distribution of knowledge‐intensive production activities in cer…
Relational and Dialectical Spaces of Knowing: Knowledge, Practice, and Work in Economic Geography
Recent work in economic geography suggests the emergence of a distinctive relational and practice-centred set of perspectives on knowledge, based around concepts including communities of practice and relational proximity. This paper will argue that, despite the significant advances in understanding this work contributes, it does not yet provide a complete account of knowing-in-practice, and proposes a stronger focus on work activity as a first st…
The University and the City
Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are global players with significant local direct and indirect impacts – on employment, the built environment, business innovation and the wider society. The University and the City explores these impacts and in the process seeks to expose the extent to which universities are just in the city, or part of the city and actively contributing …
Creative knowing, organisational learning, and socio-spatial expansion in UK videogame development studios
Dominant theories of creativity and innovation in economic geography do not seem to apply to the UK videogames development sector, because it does not exhibit strong tendencies to cluster in urban areas or organise production through systems of horizontal inter-firm relationships. This paper explores alternative explanations of learning in this knowledge-intensive sector by focusing on work practices within development studios and projects. The r…
Universities as anchor institutions in cities in a turbulent funding environment: Vulnerable institutions and vulnerable places in England
The paper examines universities as anchor institutions in the context of a major upheaval in the funding of English higher education. The various components of these changes are combined into a multivariate indicator of institutional vulnerability for universities in England. This is then linked to a classification of university cities to identify the most vulnerable institutions in the most vulnerable places with the greatest dependence on highe…
The Civic University: The Policy and Leadership Challenges
Higher Education and the Creative Economy: Beyond the Campus
Modern research universities, often thought of as primarily institutions of the sciences and engineering, are likely to be equally institutions of the arts, design and humanities. This part of thei
Universities, Public Research, and Evolutionary Economic Geography
Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG) has, thus far, neglected the contribution of universities to innovation processes in its emerging theoretical explanations of territorial economic change. This article begins to address this conceptual gap by outlining a perspective on the ways in which universities, as organizations with institutional features and functions that are distinctive to those of firms, can enhance the adaptive capacity of national…
Smart specialisation in regions with less-developed research and innovation systems: A changing role for universities
Universities and other knowledge institutions have quickly come to be seen as central to smart specialisation. However, their exact role in Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation has yet to receive much critical attention in the academic literature. This is particularly notable as defining features of smart specialisation – such as the entrepreneurial dynamic of the strategy-formation process, and differentiated nature of the…
Facilitating spaces for place-based leadership in centralized governance systems: The case of Newcastle City Futures
This paper explores how distributed and relational forms of place-based leadership can be facilitated in environments with \nconstrained local governance capabilities. It is based on an in-depth case study of a university-hosted collaborative platform \nsituated in a city/regional institutional landscape marked by limited local devolution and public sector austerity. The research \ncontributes to a fuller understanding of place-based leadership b…
Building collaborative platforms for urban innovation: Newcastle City Futures as a quadruple helix intermediary
There is a growing academic and policy interest in the notion of using cities as ‘living laboratories’ to develop and test responses to the social, environmental and economic challenges present in contemporary urbanism. These living laboratories are often assumed to function through ‘quadruple helix’ relations between varied actors from the public, private, university and community sectors. However, empirical research that explores the real-world…
The role of system-building agency in regional path creation: Insights from the emergence of artificial intelligence in Montreal
The emergence of new industries that are not closely related to existing regional paths remains an underexplained process in evolutionary economic geography. This paper responds to this gap through a case study of a maturing ecosystem of activity related to artificial intelligence in Montreal, Canada. Conceptually it brings together recent thinking in economic geography about agency in path development with complementary concepts from the literat…
Sociology (14 works) · Economics (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economic geography (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Regional science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (4 works) · Knowledge management (4 works)